our divisions Emergency Medicine Human Anatomy General Surgery Bariatric Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Gastrointestinal Surgery Surgical Oncology Trauma & Critical Care Pediatric General Surgery Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Multi-organ Transplantation Vascular Surgery

Despite enormous advances, surgery – cutting through and, at times, removing bone and soft tissue – still involves very real patient risk.
To reduce the risk surgeons rely on research to advance the effectiveness of diagnostic, decision-support, surgical, and post-surgical tools and devices.

It is a type of research for which our department is ideally suited. For example, here, vascular surgeons work with mechanical engineers to better understand blood flow. General surgeons work with bioengineers and experts in nanotechnology to create biomaterials that will emit therapies to encourage cell growth and survival.

Research goes on in all our divisions. Research resources can be found on division sites, the Community Academic Profiles site, and in the Helpful Links page.

The following is a list of laboratories and other programs in the department with web sites.

Research Labs : Researcher in a newly renovated 14,000 square foot research building devoted to the study of repair, regeneration and tissue engineering.

Asian Liver Center at Stanford

Cardiovascular Biomechanics Research Laboratory

Children’s Surgical Research

Genomic Breast Cancer Research/Jeffrey Lab

Surgical Innovation Program

Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory