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Marshall S. Padilla, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and a Sarafan ChEM-H Institute Scholar at Stanford University.

Marshall received his B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics at the College of William & Mary, his Ph.D. in Chemistry (Chemical Biology) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. His prior research spans the synthesis and genetic incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins, the development of hydrophobic nanoemulsion excipients, and identication of the structure–activity relationships of RNA lipid nanoparticles.

Marshall’s vision for the Padilla Lab is to write the guiding principles for how to rationally design RNA nanomedicines through a multidisciplinary scientific approach. When not in lab, you can find Marshall chasing a frisbee or playing board and video games.