Caleb Lareau

I currently hold appointments in the Department of Pathology and the Department of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine. As part of the inaugrual class of Stanford Science Fellows, I lead a semi-independent research program to study fundamental attributes of human tissues in health and disease. My research is supported by funding from the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and Stanford Medical School.

I completed my graduate studies at Harvard Medical School, where I earned my PhD in the Division of Medicine Sciences. My dissertation focusd on the development of new single-cell methods and technologies, particular the development of an approach to trace clonal lineages in human cells via somatic mtDNA mutations. My time at Harvard was split between the Broad Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

For two summers during my undergraduate training, I completed research projects at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich Germany, which was supported by a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst RISE Fellowship. Here, I examined potential biomarkers in the blood that were associated with patient outcomes in response to deep brain stimulation, an investigative new therapy for treatment-resistant depression.

I completed my undergraduate education at the University of Tulsa where I graduate summa cum laude with a BSc in Biochemistry and Mathematics. Here, I performed research in the in silico Research Group, establishing computational methods for the network modeling of human genetic variation data.