New applicants are welcome
The lab is entering a new chapter and actively recruiting. We look for people who want to build a measurement that does not exist yet and then use it to answer a question that matters for children with cancer. Backgrounds in molecular biology, chemistry, engineering, computer science, statistics, and medicine have all found a home here.
Postdocs
Email Chuck Gawad your CV, a summary of your research to date, and a paragraph explaining why you are interested in the lab and what you would like to work on.
Email your applicationPhD students
Prospective graduate students should apply through Stanford's School of Medicine Biosciences programs. Once admitted, get in touch to set up a rotation.
Stanford BiosciencesRotation students
We welcome rotation students from any graduate program at Stanford. Email to discuss a project that fits a quarter and your interests.
Ask about a rotationStanford undergraduates
We have positions for Stanford undergraduates who want hands-on research experience in the wet lab or in computational analysis.
Get in touchCollaborations
Prospective collaborators should email Chuck Gawad. We are always excited for opportunities to work with new scientists, particularly on problems where single-cell or cell-free measurements would change the answer.
Propose a collaborationWhat you get here that is hard to find elsewhere
Invent, then ship
The methods developed here (PTA, paired genome-and-transcriptome, single-microbe genomics) are used by labs worldwide and have been commercialized through BioSkryb Genomics. Your work has a path from bench to product to patient.
Questions from the clinic
The PI is a practicing pediatric oncologist. Projects start with a real patient problem and have access to clinical samples through Stanford Children's Health and collaborators at St. Jude.
Wet lab and dry lab under one roof
Chemistry, molecular biology, sequencing, and computational analysis sit together, so you learn the whole pipeline and own your project end to end.
Stanford and the Bay Area
Bio-X, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Stanford Genomics cores, and a dense biotech community within a few miles of the lab.
Mentorship toward your next step
Alumni have gone on to faculty, staff-scientist, and industry leadership roles, medical school, and MD/PhD programs. We plan for your career from day one.
Room to take risks
Support from the NIH Director's New Innovator program and foundation awards funds high-risk method development that would not fit a conventional grant.
Current openings
We are building the next team now. Reach out even if nothing below matches you exactly.
Wet-lab or computational · open until filled
Single-cell DNA and multi-omic analysis · open until filled
Molecular biology and single-cell chemistry · open until filled
Find us
Charles Gawad, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Stanford Medicine
240 Pasteur Dr, RM2200, Biomedical Innovations Building
Palo Alto, CA 94304
cgawad@stanford.edu
