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About Us

We are on a mission to fix the broken healthcare system and create equitable solutions for care.

Recognized as a global leader in precision health, Stanford Medicine is making major strides in a advancing the entire field.

Stanford is ranked #1 in U.S. News for the past decade in genomics, bioinformatics, biological sciences, neuroscience, and biochemistry.

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Lab at a Glance

Dr. Michael Snyder

In 2009, Snyder was recruited by Stanford University to Chair the Genetics Department and to direct the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine. Under his leadership, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Stanford University first or tied for first in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics for the past 10 years. For the past decade, Mike has been using longitudinal tracking and measuring everything about human health to predict and prevent disease ahead of time. With over 100 people in his lab, Dr. Snyder is changing the landscape of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, aging, and mental health by learning how to keep people healthy rather than treat them once they are already sick.

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“We are passionate about raising the standard of care for everyone. We are creating new systems that make health accessible and affordable for all.”

Michael Snyder, Ph.D.
Chairman & Professor, Department of Genetics
Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine

Timeline

1988
Mike’s lab launches the first systems biology approach to analyzing every gene and its function simultaneously (published 1994)
2000
Mike’s lab invents protein chips
2001
Mike’s lab publishes first whole proteome chip;
Mike’s lab together with Pat Brown’s lab invents ChIP-Chip for widespread mapping of transcription factor binding regions
2003
Mike lab tiles the first human chromosome and discovers widespread noncoding (lncRNAs)
2004
Mike’s lab tiles the entire human genome for the first time and present the first generation RNA coding map of the human genome
2006
Mike’s lab converts Chip-Chip to Chip-Seq
2007
Mike’s lab Invents paired end sequence with nextGen technology and demonstrates widespread structural variation in the human genome;
Mike’s lab publishes first de novo genome sequencing use NexGen sequencing technology
2008
Mike invents RNAseq the first technology to measure genetic expression (RNA) in humans
2009
Mike launches the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine within Stanford
2010
Mike invents the first Big Data Precision Health approach to medicine in his Integrated Personalized Omics Profiling protocols (published in 2012)
2011
Mike cofounds Personalis, a genome sequencing company
2017
Mike publishes first paper exploring how wearable devices (like Fitbit) can be used as clinical tools, including publishing the first algorithm (Change of Heart) with Xiao Li that could be used to detect infectious illnesses days before symptoms emerge
2018
Mike’s lab demonstrates widespread glucose dysregulation using continuous glucose monitors an described Glucotype
2019
Mike lab show big data and advances technologies can be used to manage the health of 109 people;
Mike’s spinout company Q.Bio (based on the Big Data + Longitudinal Profiling Approach) reports initial case studies detecting early stage cancers;
Mike’s lab together with others publishes first omics study of astronauts
2020
2021
Mike’s lab published paper using wearables to detect pre-symptomatic COVID-19 is featured on the cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering and is among the top 1% of all papers published.
Mike's Lab publishes a paper in Nature Medicine demonstrating that wearable data can be used to predict clinical test results. Jessilyn Dunn and Lukasz Kidzinski are co-lead authors.
2022
The Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab holds the first inaugural Mental Healthcare Innovations Summit bringing together leaders across the mental healthcare space on precision mental health, digital mental health, psychedelics, and awareness interventions.
2023
Mike's lab publishes the first paper using multi-omics microsampling to measure thousands of molecules from a single drop of blood. Xiaotao Shen, Ryan Kellogg, Daniel J. Panyard, and Nasim Bararpour are the co-lead authors.

TEAM & Affiliates

Steering Committee
Mike Snyder
Faculty Director
Benjamin Rolnik
Director
Lab Members and Collaborators
Kexin Cha
UI/UX
Devon Bussell
Gireesh Bogu
Camille Berry
Eli Hong
Ghazal Mazaheri
Gregory Young
Josh Payne
Katherine Van Winkle
Lisa Liao
Mel Sampat
Mia Yang
Pramod K Kotipalli
Sarah Wilen
Sushil Upadhyayula
Gabrielle Mostow
Ankit Mathur
Ben Slovin

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