{"result":[{"lastName":"Zhao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18651&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ludan \"Dani\" Zhao","firstName":"Ludan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ludan_Zhao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Kuo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5906&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Calvin Kuo","firstName":"Calvin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Calvin_Kuo","researchInterest":"We explore angiogenesis, cancer genomics, intestinal stem cells, and hepatic glucose metabolism.  Angiogenesis projects include endothelial miRNA and GPCR ko mice, blood-brain barrier regulation, stroke therapeutics and anti-angiogenic cancer therapy.  Intestinal stem cell projects use primary intestinal culture and mouse genetics to study injury-inducible vs homeostatic stem cells.  We use primary organoid cultures of diverse tissues for oncogene functional screening and therapeutics discovery."},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Chemistry Department"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3938&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James K. Chen","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/James_Chen","researchInterest":"Our laboratory combines synthetic chemistry and developmental biology to investigate the molecular events that regulate embryonic patterning, tissue regeneration, and tumorigenesis.  We are currently using genetic and small-molecule approaches to study the molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signaling, and we are developing chemical technologies to perturb and observe the genetic programs that underlie vertebrate development."},{"lastName":"Rack","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19586&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul G. Rack","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Rack","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Rohatgi","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10885&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rajat Rohatgi","firstName":"Rajat","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Rajat_Rohatgi","researchInterest":"We are working to elucidate the biochemical and cell biological principles that govern signaling pathways that sit at the intersection between developmental biology and cancer.  Our toolkit combines bulk biochemical techniques, such as cell-free reconstitution, with microscopy using novel optical probes to study the dynamics of signal propagation in cells.  We strive to develop novel strategies for the manipulation of these pathways for cancer therapies and applications in regenerative medicine."},{"lastName":"Beachy","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7655&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip Beachy","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Philip_Beachy","researchInterest":"Function of Hedgehog proteins and other extracellular signals in morphogenesis (pattern formation), in injury repair and regeneration (pattern maintenance). We study how the distribution of such signals is regulated in tissues, how cells perceive and respond to distinct concentrations of signals, and how such signaling pathways arose in evolution. We also study the normal roles of such signals in stem-cell physiology and their abnormal roles in the formation and expansion of cancer stem cells."},{"lastName":"Olivares","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18321&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gonzalo Olivares","firstName":"Gonzalo","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gonzalo_Olivares","researchInterest":"Stem cells are unique in that can renew themselves through cell division or differentiate into a diverse range of specialized cell types.  I will study genes that functions to prevent the growth of tumors and regulates stem cell decisions. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that mediate the choice between self-renewal and differentiation in stem cells has important implications for many areas of biology, including ancer treatment, regenerative medicine and new cell-based therapies."},{"lastName":"Nusse","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4280&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Roeland Nusse","firstName":"Roeland","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Roeland_Nusse","researchInterest":"Our laboratory studies Wnt signaling in development and disease. We found recently that Wnt proteins are unusual growth factors, because they are lipid-modified. We discovered that Wnt proteins promote the proliferation of stem cells of various origins. Current work is directed at understanding the function of the lipid on the Wnt,  using Wnt proteins as factors the expand stem cells and on understanding Wnt signaling during repair and regeneration after tissue injury."},{"lastName":"Nicolosi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36099&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Piper Nicolosi","firstName":"Piper","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Piper_Nicolosi","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Atwood","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Dermatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Dermatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10356&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Scott Atwood","firstName":"Scott","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Scott_Atwood","researchInterest":"My research focus is on protein kinase regulation of primary cilia-mediated signaling, skin and hair follicle development, and epithelial tumor progression. My work has discovered novel roles of kinases in neural stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, primary cilia structure and signaling, hair follicle cycling, and basal cell carcinoma progression. How kinases achieve these diverse functions are an ongoing area of investigation."},{"lastName":"Woo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Dermatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Dermatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9651&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wei-Meng Woo","firstName":"Wei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wei_Woo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Janda","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10499&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Claudia Janda","firstName":"Claudia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Claudia_Janda","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Relman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4005&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David A. Relman","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Relman","researchInterest":"My investigative program focuses on human-microbe interactions and human microbial ecology, and primarily concerns the ecology of human indigenous microbial communities; a secondary interest concerns the classification of humans with systemic infectious diseases, based on features of genome-wide gene transcript abundance patterns and pther aspects of the host response."},{"lastName":"Sylvester","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Surgery, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Pediatric Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Pediatric Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3827&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Karl Sylvester","firstName":"Karl","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Karl_Sylvester","researchInterest":"Current research interests include mesenchymal stem cell biology, clonal isolation of mesenchymal progenitors, signaling pathways for maintenance of potency and committment to differentiation.\r\n\r\nAdditional areas of ongoing study are the mechanisms of liver regeneration.  Interests include local and humoral cellular components of liver repair and regrowth; and the requisite cellular signaling mechanisms of liver stem cell biology."},{"lastName":"Rinkevich","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10607&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Yuval Rinkevich","firstName":"Yuval","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yuval_Rinkevich","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Voskoboynik","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17299&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ayelet Voskoboynik","firstName":"Ayelet","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ayelet_Voskoboynik","researchInterest":"We study several stem cell interrelated phenomena using the protochordate, Botryllus schlosseri. We use genetic, genomic, and cell biological approaches to investigate: The evolutionary molecular mechanisms that regulate the decline of tissue regenerative potential during aging and allogeneic stem cell competition in host."},{"lastName":"Chai","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13792&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Renjie Chai","firstName":"Renjie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Renjie_Chai","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Habib","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9590&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shukry Habib","firstName":"Shukry","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Shukry_Habib","researchInterest":"Can External Cues Induce Asymmetric Division of Stem cells?"},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Medical Student Tutor,Dean's Office - SoM Office of Student Services"},{"appointment":"Other Tech - Graduate,Dean's Office - SoM Office of Student Services"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17967&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Woody Chang","firstName":"Woody","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Woody_Chang","researchInterest":"A comparative study of the ethical issues in regards to the laetrile controversy of the 1970s and the experimental stem cell tourism controversy of the 2000s. Starting a new project on comparing international reporting of stem cell research between English speaking regions."},{"lastName":"Cho","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology - Child Neurology"},{"focus":"Neuro-oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24609&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Yoon-Jae Cho","firstName":"Yoon-Jae","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yoon-Jae_Cho","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies childhood brain tumors with a particular focus on medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. We utilize both top-down and bottom-up strategies to understand the biology of these tumors and identify new therapeutic avenues to more effectively treat these diseases."}]}