To our Stanford Community,

In response to the recent racist attacks on Professor Hakeem Jefferson and the open letter published in The Stanford Daily from the Early Career Black Faculty Group, we, the chairs of the Basic Bioscience Departments in the Stanford Schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, and Engineering, the directors of the Biosciences Institutes and the directors of the Interdisciplinary Biosciences Programs, express our support for Professor Jefferson and the requests made in the open letter. We condemn the coordinated, racist attacks against Professor Jefferson and call on ourselves, our community and our University to help protect and defend our Black colleagues in response to these attacks. We commit to developing proactive strategies, in coordination with our Black faculty, to prevent these attacks in the future, and when we cannot prevent them, to respond to them quickly and to mitigate their negative impacts. We hope that we can help Stanford become a community where all of our members feel safe and included as we pursue our scholarly endeavors and career aspirations.

Chairs of Basic Biomedical Science Departments in the Schools of Medicine, Engineering,and Humanities and Science, directors of the Biosciences Institutes and the directors of the Interdisciplinary Biosciences Programs

Stephen A. Baccus Chair, Department of Neurobiology

Melissa L. Bondy Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health

James K. Chen Chair, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology

Jennifer R. Cochran Chair, Department of Bioengineering

Martha S. Cyert Chair, Department of Biology

Miriam B. Goodman Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Sherril L. Green Chair, Department of Comparative Medicine

Theodore S. Jardetzky Chair, Department of Structural Biology

Paul S. Mischel Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology

Thomas Montine Chair, Department of Pathology

Douglas K. Owens Chair, Department of Health Policy

Sylvia K. Plevritis Chair, Department of Biomedical Data Science

David S. Schneider Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Michael Snyder Chair, Department of Genetics

AaronF. Straight Chair, Department of Biochemistry

Anne Villeneuve Chair, Department of Developmental Biology

Steven Artandi Director, Stanford Cancer Institute

Carolyn Bertozzi Director, ChEM-H Institute

Mark M. Davis Director, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection

Mary Leonard Director, Maternal and Child Health Research Institute

Crystal Mackall Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

William Newsome Director, Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute

Carla Shatz Director, Bio-X Program

Irving Weissman Director, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Joseph C. Wu Director, Cardiovascular Institute

Olivia Martinez Director, Immunology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

K.C. Huang Director, Biophysics Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Tushar Desai Co-Director, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Gerald Spangrude Co-Director, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Julien Sage Co-Director, Cancer Biology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Laura Attardi Co-Director, Cancer Biology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Justin Gardner Co-Director, Neurobiology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Merritt Maduke Co-Director, Neurobiology Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Link:
Letter to the editor | In support of Hakeem Jefferson and the Early Career Black Faculty Group - The Stanford Daily