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In related studies the role of NK cells in alloreactivity is being examined. Pathways of apoptosis, especially the pro-apoptotic molecule BID, is being studied in hepatocytes and allogeneic liver grafts","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4475&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sheri_Krams","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Sheri","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","displayName":"Sheri Krams","lastName":"Krams"},{"researchInterest":"Clinical renal transplantation; acute renal failure;, cardiovascular disease in diabetic end-stage renal disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4276&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Scandling","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"firstName":"John","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","displayName":"John Scandling","lastName":"Scandling"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3884&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Clark_Bonham","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"}],"firstName":"Clark","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","displayName":"Clark Bonham","lastName":"Bonham"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4038&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Higgins","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"firstName":"John","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"John Higgins","lastName":"Higgins"},{"researchInterest":"Molecular and immunological basis of transplant dysfunction and acceptance. cDNA microarray analysis of transplant rejection defined a novel role for B cells in poor prognostic categories of transplant rejection. Also identified a tolerance footprint of < 50 genes that can diagnose tolerance in peripheral blood. 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Alexander, MD","lastName":"Alexander"},{"researchInterest":"The natural history of common viral liver diseases of man is poorly understood, despite the fact that chronic liver diseases of man may result in death from liver failure or hepatocellular carcinoma.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4690&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gabriel_Garcia","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hepatology (Liver)"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"firstName":"Gabriel","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","displayName":"Gabriel Garcia","lastName":"Garcia"},{"researchInterest":"Computerized image analysis of kidney and liver biopsies to quantitate and diagnose subtle changes in tissue structure. \r\nRenal Fibrosis in; \r\n-Primary Kidney Disease\r\n-Transplant Kidney Disease\r\nLiver fibrosis\r\nSteatohepatitis","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7989&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Grimm","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"firstName":"Paul","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","displayName":"Paul C. Grimm","lastName":"Grimm"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Chang's research interests and activities include:\r\n\r\n\u0095 The etiology of virus-associated malignancies, including Hodgkin lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma\r\n\r\n\u0095 The etiologic role of immune-related risk factors in cancer, especially lymphoid malignancies\r\n\r\n\u0095 The prevention of hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma\r\n\r\n\u0095 Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer incidence and survival, particularly among Asians and Asian Americans","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7428&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ellen_Chang","appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Ellen","primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","displayName":"Ellen Chang","lastName":"Chang"},{"researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Matt_Van de Rijn","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"firstName":"Matt","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"Matt Van de Rijn","lastName":"Van de Rijn"},{"researchInterest":"Mechanisms of immune tolerance; regulatory processes in autoimmunity and transplantation and extrathymic T cell maturation.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4152&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Samuel_Strober","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"firstName":"Samuel","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","displayName":"Samuel Strober","lastName":"Strober"},{"researchInterest":"A. Pediatric Immunosuppression with Current Emphasis on Development of Complete Steroid-Free Immunosuppression for Children\r\n\r\nB. Changes in Hemodynamics and Blood Vessel Morphology Following Transplantation of Adult-Sized Kidneys to Infants and Small Children\r\n\r\nC. Study of Immunological and Physiological Variances in Infants and Small Children following Renal Transplantation\r\n\r\nD. Use of Small, Contracted Defunctionalized Urinary Bladders Following Kidney Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4212&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Oscar_Salvatierra","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Pediatrics"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney Transplantation, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Urology"}],"firstName":"Oscar","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Pediatrics","displayName":"Oscar Salvatierra","lastName":"Salvatierra"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Cheung's research interests focus on liver diseases, with emphasis on viral hepatitis. His past research include investigating the mechanism of viral neutralization of hepatitis B virus at the molecular level and immune response to hepatitis C virus. Dr. Cheung is studing various aspects of hepatitis C, both clinical and translational research.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4732&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ramsey_Cheung","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"Hepatology (Liver)"}],"firstName":"Ramsey","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","displayName":"Ramsey Cheung","lastName":"Cheung"},{"researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Tibshirani","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Statistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Robert","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","lastName":"Tibshirani"},{"researchInterest":"Our research interests are primarily in surgical oncology, especially gastrointestinal cancers. We are also developing new research studies in surgical outcomes.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4440&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sherry_Wren","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"Colorectal Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"firstName":"Sherry","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","displayName":"Sherry M. Wren","lastName":"Wren"}]}