American physician-scientist
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]
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