From the Dean's Newsletter Getting the Facts on Conflicts of Interest
The July 9th and 10th issues of the San Jose Mercury News featured major stories on conflicts of interest focusing specifically on the Stanford University School of Medicine. I am confident that there were many reactions to these articles by members of our university community as well as by the public. Conflict of interest is an important topic that has many implications... More
in the spotlight
Potential of using brainpower to propel prostheses advanced at Stanford
Stanford researchers have developed a faster way to process brain signals for use in guiding prostheses for the paralyzed. The approach quadruples the speed of previous systems. More
News Behind method for activating adult
stem cells, a shaggy-mouse story
Out of the tousled tresses of a long-locked mouse, Stanford researchers
have discovered a technique to turn on certain adult stem cells at will. Their
new method
could open the door to finding ways to use stem cells to treat a host of tissue-related
diseases and conditions, including cancer. More
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A Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine Sept. 20 at 7 a.m. Hans
Ringertz, MD, PhD, visiting
professor of radiology at Stanford and chair of the
Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, will be the featured
speaker at this surgical grand rounds presentation. CME credit is available.
The event takes place in the Clark Center auditorium. See More Events