Foundational Research

Stanford chemist Song Lin receives MacArthur Fellowship

The award recognizes Lin’s innovative strategy of adapting electrochemistry for the life sciences.

Song Ling wears a blue lab coat and stands in front of a whiteboard filled with drawings of organic molecules

Portrait of the three researchers surrounded by instrumentation.

Researchers observe first real-time quantum jump in sound

A beach scene with waves that have a glowing luminescent blue edge

New pathway found to make luminescence

A portrait of Otis Chodosh

Stanford mathematician Otis Chodosh wins New Horizons Prize

Portrait of Carolyn Bertozzi

Advance could expand immune therapy as a cancer treatment

Collage of Jay McClelland and the cover of the Emergent Mind

The Emergent Mind by Jay McClelland, Psychology

Portrait of Mark Schnitzer

New tech for imaging brain waves could advance disease research, AI

Illustration of the neural network inside a brain

Foundational research on brain development may help prevent degeneration

Illustration of the COVID-19 virus

New antibodies show potential to neutralize virus that causes COVID-19