Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States
Kiarash Shamardani is a Cancer Biology PhD Candidate at Monje Lab, Stanford Univesity School of Medicine. Kiarash graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 with a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology. Before joining the Cancer Biology program at Stanford, he spent two years studying the neural basis of perception at UC Berkeley as a research associate. As a Ph.D. student, Kiarash is interested in a systems neuroscience approach to understanding the interaction of glioma cells and their microenvironment in brain cancer. In the Monje lab, he is studying the neuron-glioma interactions at the circuit level to discern how patterns of activity within a neuron-glioma network influence the behavior of the cancer as a whole.
