Core Investigator

Christoph Thaiss

Christoph A. Thaiss is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford University. His lab studies how interactions between environment, body, and brain impact physiology and disease over the lifespan. Christoph received his undergraduate training from the University of Bonn, Yale University, ETH Zurich, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Following his Ph.D. studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Among the recognitions he has received for his work are an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, an NIDDK Catalyst Award, a Pew Biomedical Scholars Award, the Science & SciLifeLab Grand Prize for a Young Scientist, the Agilent Early Career Professor Award, a McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Award, and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award.