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David A Relman, MD
Year elected: 1998
Current membership category:
Senior
Professor
Stanford UniversityEncina E209
616 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
United States of America
Phone: 6507366822
Mobile: —
Facsimile: 650-852-3291
Email: relman@stanford.edu
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Institutional affiliations
Stanford University School of Medicine
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VA Palo Alto Health Care System
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Honors and awards
National Academy of Medicine (2011)
Biographical statement
My primary current research focus is the human microbiome, and in particular, variation in patterns of microbial diversity within the human body as a function of time (microbial succession), space (biogeography within the host landscape), and in response to perturbation, e.g., antibiotics (community robustness and resilience). One of the goals of this work is to define the role of the human microbiome in health and disease. This research integrates theory and methods from ecology, population biology, environmental microbiology, genomics and clinical medicine. During the past few decades, my research directions have also included pathogen discovery and the development of new strategies for identifying previously-unrecognized microbial agents of disease. This work helped to spearhead the application of molecular methods to the diagnosis of infectious diseases in the 1990’s. This research has emphasized the use of genomic approaches for exploring host-microbe relationships. See http://relman.stanford.edu