New ChEM-H doctoral fellows to join CBI trainees

The Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) Program is a competitive, university-wide program that awards three-year fellowships to outstanding doctoral students engaged in interdisciplinary research. ChEM-H awards SIGFs at the interface of chemistry, biology, and engineering. This year, one new ChEM-H fellow and one new honorary fellow were named. Theses doctoral students will participate in the CBI Training Program's activities and will be integrated into the cross-disciplinary community of trainees and faculty mentors. See below for the fellows' bios.

2018 ChEM-H SIGF Recipient: Corleone Delaveris, Chemistry PhD Student

Corleone is a graduate student in the lab of Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi in the Department of Chemistry. He studies how the glycocalyx — the various sugars of glycoproteins and other glycoconjugates on the cell surface — participates in disease and how it can be engineered. He combines organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, and immunology to study and manipulate the complex network of glycan-based interactions. Specific projects include studying how influenza viral fusion is affected by bulky glycoproteins and developing glycan-based immunotherapies for cancer. 

2018 ChEM-H SIGF Honorary Fellow: Catherine Liou, Chemical Engineering PhD Student

Catherine is a graduate student advised by Professor Elizabeth Sattely in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She is interested in the roles that dietary plant molecules play in modulating human health and disease. While metabolites found in dietary plants have long been implicated in disease prevention, there is limited understanding about the specific mechanisms through which they interact with human physiology. Catherine is hoping to understand and quantitate these interactions using an approach that considers a controlled plant metabolome, a relevant food context, and the gut microbiome.