Calendar - Department of Medicine

Nov 4, 2026: Medicine Grand Rounds with Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0800

Stanford Department of Medicine would like to invite all Stanford community members to attend this instance of the Medicine Grand Rounds (MGR) series, which will feature Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, a Stanford sleep medicine pioneer who discovered that narcolepsy is caused by an immune-mediated loss of brain cells — work that earned him a 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2026 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

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Dec 9, 2026: Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes at Li Ka Shing Center

Wed, 09 Dec 2026 12:00:00 -0800

Stanford Department of Medicine would like to invite all Stanford community members to attend this instance of the Medicine Grand Rounds (MGR) series, which will feature Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prize, awarded annually to research that "first makes you laugh, then makes you think," and the editor of Annals of Improbable Research, whose career is dedicated to celebrating science at its most surprising and delightfully absurd.

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Dec 16, 2026: Fireside Chat with Anne Wojcicki at Assembly Hall

Wed, 16 Dec 2026 12:00:00 -0800

Stanford Department of Medicine would like to invite all Stanford community members to attend this instance of the Medicine Grand Rounds (MGR) series, which will feature Anne Wojcicki, a pioneering force in consumer genomics and personalized medicine who co-founded 23andMe to democratize access to genetic information, and who is now leading its next chapter through the not-for-profit TTAM Research Institute.

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