{"result":[{"lastName":"Herzenberg","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6113&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Leonore A. Herzenberg","firstName":"Leonore","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Leonore_Herzenberg","researchInterest":"B-cell development; Ig rearrangement and repertoire analysis; T cell regulation of antibody\u000bresponses; T cell subsets; glutathione regulation of HIV disease progression; Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) related software development and gene arrays."},{"lastName":"Nolan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4713&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Garry Nolan","firstName":"Garry","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Garry_Nolan","researchInterest":"Dr. Nolan's group uses high throughput single cell analysis technology of kinase driven signaling cascades to interrogate autoimmunity, cancer, virology (influenza), bacterial pathogens (Listeria and Salmonella) as well as understanding normal immune system function.  Using advanced flow cytometric techniques and computational biology approaches, we focus on high throughput drug screening, mouse models of disease in patient materials, and understanding disease processes at the single cell level."},{"lastName":"Lewis","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Immunology & Transplant Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Immunology & Transplant Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4439&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David B. Lewis","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Lewis","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."},{"lastName":"Strober","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"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":"Weissman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4605&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Irving Weissman","firstName":"Irving","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Irving_Weissman","researchInterest":"Stem cell and cancer stem cell biology; development of T and B lymphocytes; cell-surface receptors for oncornaviruses in leukemia. Hematopoietic stem cells; Lymphocyte homing, lymphoma invasiveness and metastasis."},{"lastName":"Parnes","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"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":"Butcher","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4498&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Eugene Butcher","firstName":"Eugene","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Eugene_Butcher","researchInterest":"Our interests include: \r\n1) The physiology and significance of lymphocyte homing in local and systemic immunity; \r\n2) biochemical and genetic studies of molecules that direct leukocyte recruitment; \r\n3) cellular and molecular genetic studies of leukocyte chemotaxis and the role of chemokines; \r\n4) vascular differentiation in normal and pathologic inflammatory states; \r\n5) systems and chemical biology approaches to understanding the regulation of lymphocyte trafficking programs."},{"lastName":"Contag","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Neonatology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Neonatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4036&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christopher H. Contag","firstName":"Christopher","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christopher_Contag","researchInterest":"We develop and use the tools of molecular imaging to understand oncogenesis, reveal patterns of cell migration in immunosurveillance, monitor gene expression, visualize stem cell biology, and assess the distribution of pathogens in living animal models of human biology and disease. Biology doesn't occur in \"a vacuum\" or on coated plates--it occurs in the living body and that's were we look for biological patterns and responses to insult."},{"lastName":"Fathman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology"},{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4479&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"C. Garrison Fathman","firstName":"C","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/C_Fathman","researchInterest":"My lab of molecular and cellular immunology is interested in research in the general field of T cell activation and autoimmunity.   We use lentiviral mediated transduction of murine dendritic cells with immunoregulatory proteins for site specific and targeted immunotherapy. We have idintified a gene (GRAIL) that seems to control T cell anergy and are defining the regulatory T cell core transcriptome.  Additional studies are on the mechanism of effect of anti-CD3 antibodies in therapy of T1D."},{"lastName":"Crabtree","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4283&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gerald Crabtree","firstName":"Gerald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gerald_Crabtree","researchInterest":"The role of chromatin in stem cell formation and function.  Development of small molecule regulators as experimental probes and therapeutic leads.  Signaling through calcineurin  and NFAT in vertebrate development."},{"lastName":"Davis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4282&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark M. Davis","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Davis","researchInterest":"Molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte recognition and differentiation; molecular genetics and expression of T-cell receptor genes.  Dynamics and functionality of specific T cell populations in human cancer."},{"lastName":"Levy","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4307&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shoshana Levy","firstName":"Shoshana","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Shoshana_Levy","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on the mechanism of action of tetraspanins, an evolutionary conserved, widely expressed multi-gene family. We study a prototype, CD81, a molecule implicated in the pathogenesis of two major human diseases: hepatitis C virus (HCV) and malaria."},{"lastName":"Engleman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4490&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edgar Engleman","firstName":"Edgar","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Edgar_Engleman","researchInterest":"Dendritic cells, NK cells and T cells; functional proteins and genes; immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer and autoimmune disease."},{"lastName":"Gernez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9147&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Yael Gernez","firstName":"Yael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yael_Gernez","researchInterest":"I worked in the Herzenberg Laboratory in 2005 for 15 months helping my primary research mentor, Dr.\r\nRabindra Tirouvanziam (current Instructor in the department of Pediatrics at Stanford), conduct a clinical drug\r\ntrial in Cystic Fibrosis patients. During this time, I acquired my basic training in immunology. We developed\r\nmethods pioneered in the Herzenberg Laboratory and Stanford\u0092s Flow Cytometry Facility that allows detailed\r\nanalysis of signaling and functioning of immune cells at either th"},{"lastName":"Chien","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4121&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Yueh-hsiu Chien","firstName":"Yueh-Hsiu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yueh-Hsiu_Chien","researchInterest":"Contribution of T cells to immunocompetence and autoimmunity; how the immune system clears infection, avoids autoimmunity and how infection impacts on the development of immune responses."},{"lastName":"MacKenzie","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Pediatric Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Pediatric Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8321&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John MacKenzie","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_MacKenzie","researchInterest":"My work focuses on molecular imaging for the detection and treatment monitoring of musculoskeletal disease.  Currently, we study novel carbon-based molecular probes for imaging inflammatory arthritis (rheumatoid and juvenile idiopathic arthritis) using high-field MRI."},{"lastName":"Brown","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4284&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patrick O. Brown","firstName":"Patrick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Patrick_Brown","researchInterest":"Dr. Brown's research group uses diverse experimental and computational methods to investigate the logic and mechanisms that control a genome's expression program.  The Brown laboratory is systematically characterizing the genetic scripts that control the expression of our genes, in normal development and physiology and in diseases like cancer, with a particular focus on post-transcriptional regulation. The Brown lab also develops strategies and assays for early detection and diagnosis of cancer."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Dermatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Dermatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Dermatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6089&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Howard Y. Chang","firstName":"Howard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Howard_Chang","researchInterest":"The Chang group is focused on two fundamental questions in epithelial biology: (1) the basis of positional identities in epidermal structures throughout the body, and (2) how those signals and boundaries may be abrogated to allow cancer metastasis. We are investigating the roles of site-specific fibroblast differentiation in patterning the epidermis, and dissecting the mechanisms of wound healing programs in cancer metastasis."},{"lastName":"Clarke","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer"},{"focus":"Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7126&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael F. Clarke, M.D.","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Clarke","researchInterest":"Dr. Michael F. Clarke is the Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.  In addition to his clinical duties in the division of Oncology, Dr. Clarke maintains a laboratory  focused on two areas of research: i) the control of self-renewal of normal stem cells and their malignant counterparts; and ii) the identification and characterization of cancer stem cells. A central issue in stem cell biology is to understand the mechanisms that regulate self-renewa"},{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato Giaccia","firstName":"Amato","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Amato_Giaccia","researchInterest":"Cellular response to hypoxia and ionizing radiation; cell-cycle control, apoptosis and angiogenesis in transformed cells."},{"lastName":"Quertermous","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4426&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Quertermous, MD","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Thomas_Quertermous","researchInterest":"Understanding genetic basis of cardiovascular function and disease."},{"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 tissue and cDNA microarray-based translational research in renal neoplasia and medical renal disease. Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Blau","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4517&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Helen M. Blau","firstName":"Helen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Helen_Blau","researchInterest":"Molecular and cellular mechanisms that control muscle and neuronal growth; stem cell biology, differentiation, and tumorigenicity. Regulating stem cell fate in vitro and in vivo. Stem cell therapies. Hematopoietic and muscle stem cells. Characterizing and bioengineering stem cell niches. Nuclear reprogramming. Muscle development and disease. Drug delivery. Tracking cell behavior in vitro and in vivo. Understanding tissue degeneration and regeneration."},{"lastName":"Robinson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4730&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Robinson","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Robinson","researchInterest":"Our lab studies the molecular mechanisms of and develops therapies to treat autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, with a focus on rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and osteoarthritis. \r\n\r\nThe overriding objectives of our laboratory are:\r\n\r\n1. To investigate the mechanisms underlying autoimmune diseases.\r\n\r\n2. To develop diagnostics and therapeutics for autoimmune diseases.\r\n\r\n3. To investigate the role of inflammation in osteoarthritis."},{"lastName":"Wren","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"Colorectal Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4440&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sherry M. Wren","firstName":"Sherry","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sherry_Wren","researchInterest":"Our research interests are primarily in surgical oncology, especially gastrointestinal cancers. We are also developing new research studies in surgical outcomes."}]}