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5 Questions: David Relman on Investigating Origin of Coronavirus
June 2021
Microbiologist David Relman discusses the importance of understanding how the coronavirus emerged.
Containing the Risks of Bioengineered Super Viruses
September 2015
Genetically engineered viruses could open up a Pandora's box of biosecurity threats. CISAC co-director David Relman explains how we can keep a lid on it.
CISAC tackles public health & policy questions on Ebola
October 2014
We ask CISAC biosecurity experts David Relman and Megan Palmer to answer questions about the public health and policy implications of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Relman is awarded NIH innovation grant for microbial research
October 2013
CISAC co-director David Relman, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford School of Medicine, has been awarded a $6.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to to...
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
October 2012
With the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and...
CISAC Honors graduate awarded a Rhodes Scholarship
November 2011
Congratulations to Anand Habib, selected this weekend for a Rhodes Scholarship. Habib, a biology major, was a Class of 2011 CISAC honors graduate.
CISAC honors student awarded for "exceptional, tangible" intellectual achievement
May 2011
Ten undergraduates recently received the 2011 Deans' Award for Academic Accomplishment, which honors extraordinary undergraduate students for "exceptional, tangible" intellectual achievements....
Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety
December 2009
In this op-ed, CISAC's Richard Rhodes argues that public health, a discipline that organizes science-based systems of surveillance and prevention, has been primarily responsible for controlling the...
Transitions 2009 conference to focus on action plan for President-elect Obama
November 2008
CISAC's Stephen Stedman, Bruce Jones from NYU and Carlos Pascual from the Brookings Institution will unveil a "plan for action" for President-elect Obama to tackle emerging transnational threats at...
Book Review: The Gunslinger
July 2008
FSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review.
Preparation is key to avoiding 'worst-case outcome,' Chertoff says
April 2008
CISAC members Lynn Eden, Martha Crenshaw, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar participated in"Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease and the Constitution," a daylong event co-hosted by Stanford Law School....
Face facts: New York Times op-ed by CISAC's Lawrence Wein
December 2006
"Pandemic influenza is probably the world's most serious near-term public health threat," CISAC's Lawrence M.
Roundtable Forum - Anxious Times: Seeing Beyond a World of Perpetual Threats
September 2006
Stanford President John Hennessy hosted a timely and important Reunion Homecoming roundtable examining "Anxious Times: Seeing Beyond a World of Perpetual Threats," on October 14.
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Stephen P. Luby Senior Fellow Professor, Medicine, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health (by courtesy)