{"result":[{"lastName":"Miao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10306&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Zheng Miao","firstName":"Zheng","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Zheng_Miao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Cochran","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9304&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frank Cochran","firstName":"Frank","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Frank_Cochran","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Cheng","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8291&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Zhen Cheng","firstName":"Zhen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Zhen_Cheng","researchInterest":"To develop novel molecular imaging probes and techniques for non-invasively early detection of cancer using multimodality imaging technologies including PET, SPECT, MRI, optical imaging, etc."},{"lastName":"Frank","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8065&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Curtis Frank","firstName":"Curtis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Curtis_Frank","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frederick T. 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We study these problems using protein engineering, structural, biochemical, and combinatorial biology approaches."},{"lastName":"Mulyasasmita","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19579&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Widya Mulyasasmita","firstName":"Widya","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Widya_Mulyasasmita","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Kruse","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Structural Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Structural Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20137&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Kruse","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Kruse","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Behera","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8771&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Deepak Behera","firstName":"Deepak","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Deepak_Behera","researchInterest":"Developing strategies to localize chronic pain generators using molecular and functional imaging methods.\r\nPre-clinical testing of novel long-acting analgesics using both imaging and non-imaging behavioral analyses."},{"lastName":"Gambhir","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nuclear Medicine"},{"focus":"Radiology"},{"focus":"PET Scan"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Materials Science and Engineering - Engineering Materials Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3971&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD","firstName":"Sanjiv","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sanjiv_Gambhir","researchInterest":"My laboratory focuses on merging advances in molecular biology with those in biomedical imaging to advance the new field of molecular imaging. Methods to image gene expression in living subjects have been developed.  Newer approaches to image fundamental cellular events with optical and radiolabeled probes are under active investigation. 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B cells deficient in CD72 are hyperresponsive to stimulation through the B cell receptor.  We are examining the alterations in B cell signaling in these B cells and the mechanisms by which CD72 deficiency partially abrogates anergic tolerance.  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