{"result":[{"lastName":"Graef","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7247&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Isabella Graef","firstName":"Isabella","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Isabella_Graef","researchInterest":"We are interested in addressing questions in neuronal development and function by a combination of genetic, cell biological, biochemical and chemical approaches. \r\nThe main focus of our lab is centered around two topics: 1) the interface of signaling and gene regulation in neuronal development, with a focus on calcineurin-NFAT signaling; 2) the development of small molecules, which interfere with protein-protein interactions underlying neurodegenerative diseases."},{"lastName":"Chaudhuri","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23056&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Aadel Chaudhuri","firstName":"Aadel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Aadel_Chaudhuri","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Strober","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4152&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Samuel Strober","firstName":"Samuel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Samuel_Strober","researchInterest":"Mechanisms of immune tolerance; regulatory processes in autoimmunity and transplantation and extrathymic T cell maturation."},{"lastName":"Sage","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6009&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Julien Sage","firstName":"Julien","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Julien_Sage","researchInterest":"We are interested in the links between the basic cell cycle machinery and the factors controlling self-renewal, differentiation, and regeneration. In particular, we are intrigued by the differences and the similarities between \"normal\" cells, cancer cells, and stem cells. We investigate the mechanisms by which normal cells become tumor cells, and we aim to understand the differences between the proliferative response in response to injury and the hyperproliferative phenotype of cancer cells."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6387&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ching-Pin Chang","firstName":"Ching-Pin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ching-Pin_Chang","researchInterest":"The ultimate goal of my laboratory is to define the molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular development and disease and translate the bench findings to clinical applications. One objective is to understand how the major types of cardiac cells (endocardial, myocardial, epicardial and neural crest cells) interact with each other to generate heart tissues. We are interested in chromatin regulation, transcriptional and signaling events that coordinate their interactions and assembly into hea"},{"lastName":"Rouse","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4491&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert V Rouse","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Rouse","researchInterest":"My recent research efforts are currently focused in the field of applications of immunohistology to the diagnosis of human neoplasms. This work is predominantly aimed at characterizing markers for the identification of non-lymphoid neoplasms and at establishing criteria for their evaluation in diagnostic situations."},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Michie","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4707&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sara Michie","firstName":"Sara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sara_Michie","researchInterest":"Lymphocyte/endothelial cell adhesion mechanisms involved in lymphocyte migration to sites of inflammation; regulation of expression of endothelial cell adhesion molecules."},{"lastName":"Sweet-Cordero","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"},{"focus":"Ewing's sarcoma"},{"focus":"Osteosarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6970&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alejandro Sweet-Cordero","firstName":"Alejandro","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alejandro_Sweet-Cordero","researchInterest":"Our laboratory is devoted to the analysis of pathways involved in the initiation, progression, and maintenance of cancer.   Utilizing the mouse as a model system, we strive to understand aberrant oncogenic signaling, the role of the tumor microenvironment and the mechanisms involved in chemotherapy response and resistance at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels."},{"lastName":"Parnes","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4487&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jane Parnes","firstName":"Jane","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jane_Parnes","researchInterest":"The lab is studying the mechanisms controlling B cell responsiveness and the balance between tolerance and autoimmunity.  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.  We hope to learn how deficiency in CD72 leads to spontaneous autoimmunity and increased susceptibility to induced autoimmune disease."},{"lastName":"Jones","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6226&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patricia Jones","firstName":"Patricia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Patricia_Jones","researchInterest":"Dr. Jones' research has focused on genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms that regulate immune responses. Current work focuses on innate immune responses, triggered by conserved microbial components. As these responses can be harmful they are highly regulated in their occurrence, magnitude, and duration.  Her lab has discovered a novel mechanism that negatively regulates innate responses, mediated by the phosphatase calcineurin."},{"lastName":"Huang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13753&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jun Huang","firstName":"Jun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jun_Huang","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Neal","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Oncology"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19045&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joel Neal, MD, PhD","firstName":"Joel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Joel_Neal","researchInterest":"Applying new technologies to the diagnosis, characterization, and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer."},{"lastName":"Cyert","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6213&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Martha Cyert","firstName":"Martha","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Martha_Cyert","researchInterest":"Cells respond to extracellular changes by activating signal transduction pathways, many of which are highly conserved. We study Ca2+-mediated signaling in a simple eukaryote, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using genetic, genomic, biochemical and cell biological approaches, we are examining how the Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated phosphatase, calcineurin, regulates gene expression and other cellular processes in response to environmental stress."},{"lastName":"Rosen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4245&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Glenn Rosen","firstName":"Glenn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Glenn_Rosen","researchInterest":"Our laboratory examines apoptotic and cell cycle pathways in cancer and lung disease. We have identified a novel cell cycle protein which regulates cell cycle progression in immune cells and the lung.  We are also studying signaling pathways that regulate cancer cell growth and metastasis."},{"lastName":"Flockhart","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Dermatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Dermatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11018&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ross Flockhart","firstName":"Ross","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ross_Flockhart","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato J. 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We are also investigating how hypoxia regulates gene expression epigenetically."},{"lastName":"Higgins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4038&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Higgins","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Higgins","researchInterest":"I work as a diagnostic surgical pathologist doing translational research in renal neoplasia and medical renal disease and neoplastic and medical liver disease. Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Chen","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=18041&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Y. 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