Stanley Shaw is one of the faculty members in the MGH Center for Systems Biology, with a joint appointment in the Cardiovascular Research Center. His research uses systematic chemical biology and genomics approaches to identify biologic pathways in cardiovascular and metabolic disease that can be modulated for therapeutic effect. He divides his time between MGH and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where he works closely with several programs and investigators.
Stanley is a board-certified cardiologist and attending physician in the MGH Heart Center. Before that, he also served as Chief Resident of the Medical Service at MGH.
He received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College before completing his combined MD and PhD studies at Harvard; his Ph.D. in Biophysics studied DNA topology under the supervision of James Wang. He completed his internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital; and worked with Mark Fishman and Stuart Schreiber as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute physician post-doctoral fellow.