Mark Schnitzer is a Professor jointly in the Biology and Applied Physics departments at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

and an Investigator of the

Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland with additional facilities in Ashburn, Virginia. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American busin ...

and is a recipient of a Paul Allen grant. His current research focuses on techniques for imaging individual neurons ''

in vivo Studies that are ''in vivo'' (Latin for "within the living"; often not italicized in English) are those in which the effects of various biological entities are tested on whole, living organisms or cells, usually animals, including humans, an ...

'', including using fluorescent imaging and highly parallel processing techniques. In 2003, he was named to the MIT ''Technology Review'''s " TR100" list of young innovators.

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