Dr. Itakura's research focuses on developing methods for integrative analysis of multi-scale cancer data to improve patient outcomes. She uses machine learning and radiogenomic approaches to accelerate discoveries in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.

Dr. Hawa Racine Thiam is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Sarafan ChEM-H Institute Scholar at Stanford. Dr. Thiam’s long-term goal is to combine what we learn studying the cellular biophysics of immune cells, together with engineering principles to manipulate, predict and re-design innate immune cells and improve human health.