Ami Bhatt
Ami Bhatt | |
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Alma mater | University of California, San Francisco Harvard School of Medicine |
Awards | 2018 Chen Award of Excellence, Human Genome Organization
2020 Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine, National Academy of Medicine 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Microbiome, Hematologic malignancies, Bioinformatics |
Website | http://www.bhattlab.com |
Ami Bhatt is an American physician-scientist who studies the link between blood cancers and the human gut microbiome.[1] She holds associate professorships in Genetics and Medicine (Hematology) at Stanford University. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X, the Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI), and Stanford ChEM-H.[2][3] In addition, Bhatt is the co-founder of Global Oncology Inc., a nonprofit focused on providing quality oncologic treatment in resource-constrained settings.[4]
Education[]
Bhatt completed her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2005 and earned her MD degree in 2007, both from the University of California, San Francisco.[2] She then underwent her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.[1][2] Bhatt then pursued a Hematology and Oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After this she was a post-doc at the Broad Institute and MIT.[5][6]
Awards[]
Bhatt won the 2018 Chen Award of Excellence by the Human Genome Organisation.[7]
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awarded a $525,000 research grant to Bhatt, along with colleagues Anne Brunet and K. Christopher Garcia, for their project "Analyzing how inflammation affects the aging brain."[8]
Bhatt was named a 2020 Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine.[9] She was also a winner of the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship, in the category "Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology."[10]
Board memberships[]
Bhatt serves on the editorial board for Blood, Journal of Global Oncology,[11] Seminars in Hematology, and The Oncologist.[2]
In November 2020 Bhatt joined the Scientific Advisory board for January AI, a precision medicine company predicting long-term blood glucose level changes with artificial intelligence.[12]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "People". Bhatt Lab - Stanford Medical School. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Ami Bhatt's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ kristac@stanford.edu, <img src='//sgec stanford edu/content/dam/sm-news/images/2015/10/conger-krista-90 jpg img 620 high png/1449288303768 png' alt='Krista Conger'> By Krista Conger. "Human microbiome churns out thousands of tiny novel proteins". News Center. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "About - GLOBAL ONCOLOGY, INC". https://globalonc.org/. Retrieved 2021-01-03. External link in
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(help) - ^ "Midsummer Nights' Science: Explorations of human disease: The bacterial frontier". Broad Institute. 2014-07-09. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ "Researcher Dr. Ami Bhatt in Conversation". Emerson Collective. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
- ^ "Chen Award Recipient 2018". www.hugo-international.org. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ News, Stanford. "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards $1.49 million to Stanford researchers | The Dish". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ Reporter, India-West Staff. "Stanford Indian American Professor Ami S. Bhatt Named a National Academy of Medicine Scholar". India West. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "2020 Fellows". sloan.org. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ^ "Post #5005 - GLOBAL ONCOLOGY, INC". https://globalonc.org/. Retrieved 2021-01-02. External link in
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(help) - ^ "January AI Expands Scientific Advisory Board". www.businesswire.com. 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
External links[]
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