{"result":[{"lastName":"Pruitt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10716&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Beth L. Pruitt","firstName":"Beth","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Beth_Pruitt","researchInterest":"We are interested in microscale mechanics and MEMS-based metrologies primarily for small scale mechanics sensing and acutation. Applied research focuses on systems development and characterization. Fundamental research questions focus on mechanotransduction and cellular biomechanics."},{"lastName":"Eastwood","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10621&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amy L Eastwood","firstName":"Amy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Amy_Eastwood","researchInterest":"Dr. Amy Eastwood\u0092s career has not just bloomed - it has rocketed.  From her takeoff in high school where her chemistry teacher inspired her to pursue a career in science, Dr. Eastwood obtained her Ph.D. at Caltech University, which in turn drew her interest to look at her research on ion channels in a more natural environment.  \r\n\r\nHouston, we have found C. elegans. Dr. Eastwood came to Stanford University in late 2008 and now, with the Stanford University\u0092s Dean Fellowship and a NIH NRSA Fello"},{"lastName":"Mcintire","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Associate Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Consulting Associate Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=22953&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Mcintire","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Mcintire","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Ricci","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7527&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anthony Ricci","firstName":"Anthony","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anthony_Ricci","researchInterest":"The auditory sensory cell, the hair cell, detects mechanical stimulation at the atomic level and conveys information regarding frequency and intensity to the brain with high fidelity. Our interests are in identifying specializations associated with mechanotransduction and synaptic transmission leading to the amazing sensitivities of the auditory system. We are also interested in the developmental process, particularly in how development gives insight into repair and regenerative mechanisms."},{"lastName":"Bacaj","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17260&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Taulant Bacaj","firstName":"Taulant","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Taulant_Bacaj","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Myers","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13571&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Benjamin Myers","firstName":"Benjamin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Benjamin_Myers","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Koch","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Senior Director, Discovery & Technological Service Centers,Dean's Office - Senior Associate Dean for Research"},{"appointment":"Admin Services Manager,Dean's Office - Senior Associate Dean for Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Senior Director, Discovery & Technological Service Centers,Dean's Office - Senior Associate Dean for Research","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=25427&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bruce Koch, Ph.D.","firstName":"Bruce","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Bruce_Koch","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Meyer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4007&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tobias Meyer","firstName":"Tobias","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tobias_Meyer","researchInterest":"CELLULAR INFORMATION PROCESSING  The main problem in signal transduction is to understand how different receptor-stimuli specifically control diverse cell functions. We are using automated microscopy, live-cell fluorescent biosensors and perturbations of predicted signaling proteins to systematically dissect signaling networks.  This allows us to identify signaling modules and to elucidate and ultimately model the flow of cellular information."},{"lastName":"Gilly","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=6223&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Gilly","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Gilly","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"O'Brodovich","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Pulmonary"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine/Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8414&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hugh O'Brodovich","firstName":"Hugh","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Hugh_O'Brodovich","researchInterest":"Clinical: \r\nPulmonary edema, acute respiratory distress syndromes (ARDS), hyaline membrane disease (HMD), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)\r\n\r\nBasic Science: \r\nLung epithelial sodium transport\r\nGenetic influences on the development of BPD"},{"lastName":"Heller","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7084&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stefan Heller","firstName":"Stefan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stefan_Heller","researchInterest":"Most types of congenital and acquired hearing loss arise from damage to, or loss of hair cells, the sensory cells of the inner ear.  Our work focuses on generating mouse and human inner ear cell types from stem cells and we are interested in signaling pathways that control hair cell (re-)generation in vitro and in vivo.  In a second line of research, we are working on the identification and the molceular characterization of proteins that are important for hair cell function."},{"lastName":"Effertz","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=23948&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Effertz","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Thomas_Effertz","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Nachury","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8391&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Maxence Nachury","firstName":"Maxence","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Maxence_Nachury","researchInterest":"We study the primary cilium, a once-obscure cellular organelle recently \"re-discovered\" for its role in a number of signaling pathways. Defects in cilium biogenesis lead to a variety of hereditary disorders characterized by retinal degeneration, kidney cysts and obesity. Our goal is  to characterize these disorders at the molecular and cellular levels to gain insight into the basic mechanisms of primary cilium biogenesis and to discover novel ciliary signaling pathways."},{"lastName":"Pao","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Hypertension, Renal"},{"focus":"Nephrolithiasis"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8440&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan C. Pao","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alan_Pao","researchInterest":"We are interested in the hormonal and signal transduction pathways that control epithelial ion transport.  Our model system involves tight epithelia, typically found in the distal nephron of the kidney.  Clinical implications of our work include a better understanding of the pathogenesis of salt-sensitive hypertension and hypertension associated with the insulin resistance syndrome."},{"lastName":"Thompson","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=6245&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stuart Thompson","firstName":"Stuart","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stuart_Thompson","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hestrin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4343&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shaul Hestrin","firstName":"Shaul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Shaul_Hestrin","researchInterest":"The main interest of my lab is to understand how the properties of neocortical neurons and the circuits they form give rise to cortical activity and function. Our approach includes recordings from multiple cells, calcium imaging, two-photon imaging and viral-based optogenetic methods to activate  cortical neurons as well as cortical afferents."},{"lastName":"Bhalla","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"},{"focus":"Diabtetic Kidney Disease"},{"focus":"Hypertension"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8442&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Vivek Bhalla, MD","firstName":"Vivek","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Vivek_Bhalla","researchInterest":"Dr. Bhalla's research interests are in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease and salt-sensitive hypertension. Using molecular and transgenic approaches, the laboratory is interested in elucidating regulators of oxidative and carbonyl stress in glomeruli. We interface these studies with collaborative projects on biomarkers for human diabetic nephropathy. \r\n\r\nThe laboratory also focuses on molecular mechanisms of insulin and aldosterone-induced sodium transport in the distal nephron."},{"lastName":"Villeneuve","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4035&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anne Villeneuve","firstName":"Anne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anne_Villeneuve","researchInterest":"Mechanisms underlying homologous chromosome pairing, DNA recombination and chromosome remodeling during meiosis, using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an experimental system.  High-resolution 3-D imaging of dynamic reorganization of chromosome architecture.  Role of protease inhibitors in regulating sperm activation."},{"lastName":"Huang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10429&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"KC Huang","firstName":"Kerwyn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kerwyn_Huang","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Oshima","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9293&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kazuo Oshima","firstName":"Kazuo","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kazuo_Oshima","researchInterest":"Stem cell-based research on the inner ear"},{"lastName":"Schvarzstein","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=9884&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mara Schvarzstein","firstName":"Mara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mara_Schvarzstein","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Stryer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Neurobiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3795&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lubert Stryer","firstName":"Lubert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lubert_Stryer","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Cheng","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Hearing loss"},{"focus":"Cholesteotoma"},{"focus":"Pediatric sinus disease"},{"focus":"Pediatric head and neck tumors"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8272&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan G. Cheng","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alan_Cheng","researchInterest":"Active Wnt signaling maintains somatic stem cells in many organ systems. Using Wnt target genes as markers, we have characterized distinct cell populations with stem cell behavior in the inner ear, an organ thought to be terminally differentiated.  Ongoing work focuses on delineating the developing significance of these putative stem/progenitor cells and their behavior after damage."}]}