{"result":[{"researchInterest":"My research program is currently focused in three areas: 1) translational research (HCV/HIV viral evolution and antiviral resistance prevalence and development), 2) HIV/HCV clinical trials (diagnostic assay/medical device, antiretrovirals, ARVs and immunomodulators), and 3) health services research focusing on cost effectiveness of HIV antibody and ARV resistance testing and ARV utilization and clincal outcome.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4021&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Mark_Holodniy","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"}],"firstName":"Mark","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"Mark Holodniy","lastName":"Holodniy"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6765&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Alejandro_Dorenbaum","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Allergy & Clinical Immunology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Allergy and Immunology"}],"firstName":"Alejandro","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Allergy & Clinical Immunology","displayName":"Alejandro Dorenbaum","lastName":"Dorenbaum"},{"researchInterest":"Treatment and evaluation of HIV infectionin the United States and Europe through the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). International HIV pathogenesis work includes studies in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and India where we are particularly interested in the pandemic of subtype C HIV-1, TB and other co-infections. The lab currently is focused on drug resistance, envelope tropism and the pathogenesis of HIV.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4325&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/David_Katzenstein","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"David Katzenstein","lastName":"Katzenstein"},{"researchInterest":"Our laboratory focuses on host-viral interactions in the sexual and mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1. We developed human organotypic models to closely mimic in vivo infection. Our recent work has focused on developing immune-based and small molecule inhibitors of HIV-1 transmission.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3975&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Bruce_Patterson","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Bruce","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"Bruce Patterson","lastName":"Patterson"},{"researchInterest":"Theories of inference applied to biostatistical data;, the bootstrap method.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6090&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Bradley_Efron","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Statistics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Bradley","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Statistics","displayName":"Bradley Efron","lastName":"Efron"},{"researchInterest":"My laboratory has two major research interests.  First, to define cellular and molecular mechanisms that limit T cell responses to vaccines and pathogens during normal early postnatal development and in cases of inherited genetic immunodeficiencies.  Second, to determine how these limitations in immunity can be overcome by using novel approaches for vaccine adjuvants, with a particular focus on anti-viral vaccines.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4439&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/David_Lewis","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Immunology & Transplant Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Immunology & Transplant Biology","displayName":"David B. Lewis","lastName":"Lewis"},{"researchInterest":"Our labaratory focuses on the study of immune recognition by T and NK cells with special emphasis on graft vs host disease and graft vs tumor reactions. We utilize both murine and human systems in an effort to enhance graft vs tumor reactions while controlling graft vs host disease. We have developed bioluminescence models in collaboration with the Contag laboratory to study the trafficking of immune effector cells with a special emphasis on NK, T and regulatory T cells.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4138&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Robert_Negrin","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Division: Blood and  \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"firstName":"Robert","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Division: Blood and  \r\nMarrow Transplantation","displayName":"Robert Negrin","lastName":"Negrin"},{"researchInterest":"Germ cell tumors and bone sarcomas.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4473&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Neyssa_Marina","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant,  Pediatric"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"firstName":"Neyssa","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology","displayName":"Neyssa Marina","lastName":"Marina"},{"researchInterest":"My research focuses on epidemiologic aspects of viral vaccines and perinatal HIV infection. This includes the molecular epidemiology of factors affecting the immunogenicity of oral polio vaccine (OPV) in developing areas of the world, and now the epidemiology of transmission and circulation of vaccine derived polioviruses in order to assist in global eradication of polio.  I also work in development of methods to prevent breastfeeding transmission of HIV in Africa.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4663&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Yvonne_Maldonado","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"firstName":"Yvonne","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"Yvonne Maldonado","lastName":"Maldonado"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4665&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Janice_Brown","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and  \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation / Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"firstName":"Janice","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and  \r\nMarrow Transplantation","displayName":"Janice Brown","lastName":"Brown"},{"researchInterest":"In the Microbiology laboratory, we evaluate cutting-edge new technology for rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases, and we work with high-tech companies to help them develop new diagnostic assays at the pre-market stage.  We do not perform basic research and we do not have any fellowship support.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4367&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Ellen_Baron","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"firstName":"Ellen","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"Ellen Jo Baron","lastName":"Baron"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Zolopa\u0092s research applies a variety of clinical epidemiologic methods in an effort to optimize antiretroviral therapy and understand the impact of drug resistance on response to ARV.   Areas of focus include the clinical application of resistance testing in optimizing antiretroviral therapy, clinical cohort and trials of antiretroviral therapies and population-based epidemiologic evaluation of HIV resistance and efficacy of ARV therapy in urban poor communities of San Francisco.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4034&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Andrew_Zolopa","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"}],"firstName":"Andrew","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"Andrew Zolopa","lastName":"Zolopa"},{"researchInterest":"Hematology/Oncology, treatment of sarcomas of bone and soft tissue, biology of acute lymphoblastic leukemias, treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4631&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Michael_Link","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant,  Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology","displayName":"Michael Link","lastName":"Link"},{"researchInterest":"My area of research interest is focused on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of infections in children. Much of my research has focused on viral infections, especially those caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV). I have conducted a number of studies concerned with the epidemiology of HSV-2 infections in pregnant women, their partners, and neonates. Recently, I have extended these epidemiologic studies to adolescents.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4095&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Charles_Prober","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"firstName":"Charles","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"Charles G. Prober","lastName":"Prober"},{"researchInterest":"Mechanisms of immune tolerance; regulatory processes in autoimmunity and transplantation and extrathymic T cell maturation.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4152&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Samuel_Strober","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"firstName":"Samuel","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","displayName":"Samuel Strober","lastName":"Strober"},{"researchInterest":"Dr Shafer's research is on the mechanisms and consequences of HIV evolution with an emphasis on HIV drug resistance. He maintains an online database (http://hivdb.stanford.edu) designed to provide a publicly available resource for those performing HIV drug resistance surveillance, interpreting HIV drug resistance tests, and developing new antiretroviral drugs.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4054&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Robert_Shafer","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Pathology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"firstName":"Robert","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"Robert W. Shafer","lastName":"Shafer"},{"researchInterest":"Dendritic cells, NK cells and T cells; functional proteins and genes; immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer and autoimmune disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4490&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Edgar_Engleman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"firstName":"Edgar","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","displayName":"Edgar Engleman","lastName":"Engleman"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9694&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Philip_Grant","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Philip","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","displayName":"Philip Grant","lastName":"Grant"},{"researchInterest":"Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a treatment modality which is being broadly applied to a growing number of disorders. Increasing success with BMT is offering improved survival to pediatric and adult patients with acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, lymphomas, and a variety of solid tumors as well as severe aplastic anemia.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6097&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Michael_Amylon","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"},{"focus":"Ped Hematology/Oncology"}],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation","displayName":"Michael Amylon","lastName":"Amylon"},{"researchInterest":"The Stanford-LPCH Program provides an infrastructure for conducting clinical studies of new vaccines in children and adults. Current emphasis is on seasonal and avian influenza, malaria and smallpox vaccine studies. We secreend 20,000 newborn infants for congenital HCMV infection in 3 local hospitals and continue with prospective audiology and immunology follow-up of identified children. Additionally, we are a CDC Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment site to evaluate licensed vaccine safety.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3858&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Cornelia_Dekker","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Vaccine Clinical Trials"},{"focus":"Vaccine Safety"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"}],"firstName":"Cornelia","primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"Cornelia L. Dekker, M.D.","lastName":"Dekker"},{"researchInterest":"Cardiopulmonary and pulmonary transplant medicine; diagnostic surgical pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4091&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Gerald_Berry","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"firstName":"Gerald","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"Gerald Berry","lastName":"Berry"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4047&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Jose_Montoya","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Immunocompromised Host"},{"focus":"Toxoplasmosis"}],"firstName":"Jose","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","displayName":"Jose G. Montoya","lastName":"Montoya"},{"researchInterest":"Gene Regulation; Molecular Immunology; Lymphocyte subsets; Fluorescence-Activated Cell\u000bSorter (FACS) development; AIDS; Apoptosis; Redox Regulation; Gene Arrays; and the theraphy of AIDS using the anti-oxidant N'acetylcysteine(NAC).","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4151&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Leonard_Herzenberg","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Leonard","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Genetics","displayName":"Leonard Herzenberg","lastName":"Herzenberg"},{"researchInterest":"My research has involved the use of new technologies to create different types of patient-doctor transactions.  I am also interested in how these new transactions impact clinical care processes.  Current work includes the evaluation of a patient portal for children with cystic fibrosis, the use of telemedicine to bring asthma experts into the schools and the attitudes of teens and parents about the use of a secure patient portal for teens.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4265&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/David_Bergman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatrics, General"},{"focus":"Pediatrics"},{"focus":"Health Service Area"}],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General","displayName":"David Bergman","lastName":"Bergman"},{"researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/dean/researcher/Matt_Van de Rijn","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"firstName":"Matt","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"Matt Van de Rijn","lastName":"Van de Rijn"}]}