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We investigate the following areas:\r\n- Spinal cord injury (SCI): Axonal regeneration, myelination and gene therapy \r\n- Stem cell transplantation (adult, embryonic and iPS)\r\n- Endogenous stem cell activity after SCI\r\n- Immunomodulation therapies to potentiate cell transplantation after SCI\r\n- Olfactory ensheathing glia and olfactory neurogenesis\r\n- Peripheral nerve injury (gene therapy)\r\n- Visual system: axonal regeneration (gene therapy"},{"lastName":"Amodei","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29493&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dario Amodei","firstName":"Dario","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dario_Amodei","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Thiruvengadam","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18697&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nikhil Thiruvengadam","firstName":"Nikhil","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nikhil_Thiruvengadam","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Brongersma","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8051&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Brongersma","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Brongersma","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Marshel","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34838&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Marshel","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/James_Marshel","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fisher","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Natural Sciences Cluster - Applied Physics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Natural Sciences Cluster - Applied Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8594&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Fisher","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Fisher","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Kim","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37002&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Juyoung Kim","firstName":"JUYOUNG","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/JUYOUNG_Kim","researchInterest":""},{"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. 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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":"Devarajan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19830&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sridharan Devarajan","firstName":"Sridharan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sridharan_Devarajan","researchInterest":"Attention allows us to selectively process the most important information in the sensory environment. I study how gamma-band (25-140Hz) oscillations that occur in brain circuits during attention shape behavior. I study the mechanisms and role of these oscillations in the optic tectum (superior colliculus), a midbrain structure involved in attention, sensory processing and gaze control, using a combination of recordings in live animals, in brain slices, and computational modeling."},{"lastName":"Yang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18228&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nan Yang","firstName":"Nan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nan_Yang","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Baccus","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6027&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen A. 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My work focusses on PET front-end detectors, data acquisition, and system simulation. The goal is to improve spatial and energy resolution yielding a better image quality. 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As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my research focused on prefrontal neurophysiology of working memory and executive control. I came to Stanford to further my training in optogenetics and rodent neurophysiology. 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