{"result":[{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4713&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Garry_Nolan","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Garry","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory","displayName":"Garry Nolan","lastName":"Nolan"},{"researchInterest":"The role of oncoproteins in cancer and development; molecular and cellular biology of hematologic malignancies; targeted molecular therapies of cancer.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4506&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Cleary","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","displayName":"Michael Cleary","lastName":"Cleary"},{"researchInterest":"Understanding genetic basis of cardiovascular function and disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4426&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Thomas_Quertermous","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Thomas","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Thomas Quertermous, MD","lastName":"Quertermous"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4284&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Patrick_Brown","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Patrick","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","displayName":"Patrick O. Brown","lastName":"Brown"},{"researchInterest":"Iris Schrijver is a diplomate of the ABMG, with specialty certification in Clinical Molecular Genetics. In addition, she is a diplomate of the ABP in Clinical Pathology. She is one of the directors of the diagnostic Molecular Pathology laboratory and Stanford Point-of-Care testing. Research interests include the characterization of the molecular basis of inherited disorders, genotype-phenotype correlations, and development of novel molecular diagnostic tools.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3905&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Iris_Schrijver","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Clinical Molecular Genetics"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"firstName":"Iris","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"Iris Schrijver","lastName":"Schrijver"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6089&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Howard_Chang","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Dermatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Dermatology"}],"firstName":"Howard","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Dermatology","displayName":"Howard Y. Chang","lastName":"Chang"},{"researchInterest":"Insulin is one of the primary regulators of rapid anabolic responses in the body. Defects in the synthesis and/or ability of cells to respond to insulin results in the condition known as diabetes mellitus. To better design methods of treatment for this disorder, we have been focusing our research on how insulin elicits its various biological responses.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4175&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Richard_Roth","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Richard","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology","displayName":"Richard Roth","lastName":"Roth"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4517&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Helen_Blau","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Helen","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory","displayName":"Helen M. Blau","lastName":"Blau"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4283&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gerald_Crabtree","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Gerald","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","displayName":"Gerald Crabtree","lastName":"Crabtree"},{"researchInterest":"The biochemistry and molecular genetics of growth and differentiation of nerve cells. The structure, biosynthesis and mechanism of action of nerve growth factor and other neurotrophins. Gene regulation in target organs and glial cells during nerve regeneration. The role of apolipoproteins and of the myelin protein PMP-22 during nerve degeneration and regeneration and in peripheral neuropathies.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3996&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Eric_Shooter","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Neurobiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Eric","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Neurobiology","displayName":"Eric Shooter","lastName":"Shooter"},{"researchInterest":"We are using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Human to conduct whole genome analysis projects. The yeast genome sequence has approximately 6,000 genes. We have made a set of haploid and diploid strains (21,000) containing a complete deletion of each gene. In order to facilitate whole genome analysis each deletion is molecularly tagged with a unique 20-mer DNA sequence. This sequence acts as a molecular bar code and makes it easy to identify the presence of each deletion.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4117&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Davis","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Ronald","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","displayName":"Ronald Davis","lastName":"Davis"},{"researchInterest":"For about 10 years until 2000, my lab\u0092s research activities were focused on the mechanism of recombinational repair of double-strand breaks in DNA. We focused our efforts on two model systems:  one involved the repair of restriction enzyme cleavages at specific mammalian chromosomal loci and the second explored the biochemical properties of purified yeast Rad51 protein, an essential catalyst for synapsing the broken ends of DNA with an intact homologue of that sequence.  We also explored the ro","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6263&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Berg","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Biochemistry"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Paul","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Biochemistry","displayName":"Paul Berg","lastName":"Berg"},{"researchInterest":"Our laboratory studies Wnt signaling in development and disease. We found recently that Wnt proteins are unusual growth factors, because they are lipid-modified. We also discovered that Wnt proteins promote the proliferation of stem cells of various origins. Current work is directed at understanding the function of the lipid on the Wnt,  using Wnt proteins as factors the expand stem cells and on understanding Wnt signaling during injury repair and regeneration.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4280&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Roeland_Nusse","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Roeland","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","displayName":"Roeland Nusse","lastName":"Nusse"},{"researchInterest":"Regulation of expression of oncogenes in normal and malignant hematologic cells.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4658&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Linda_Boxer","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematology"},{"focus":"Multiple Myeloma"},{"focus":"Multiple Myeloma - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Plasmacytoma"},{"focus":"Plasmacytoma - Hematology"},{"focus":"Plasmacytoma - Medical Oncology"}],"firstName":"Linda","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology","displayName":"Linda Boxer","lastName":"Boxer"},{"researchInterest":"My research focuses on mechanisms of malformation and morphogenesis. Specific research interests include: clinical teratology (fetal alcohol syndrome and the teratogenic effects of other drugs of abuse during pregnancy); intrauterine vascular disruption as a causative mechanism of congenital anomalies; congenital overgrowth syndromes; genetic disorders in Native Americans; the provision of genetics services to underserved populations; and innovative approaches to medical genetics education.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4429&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/H_Hoyme","appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"H","primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","displayName":"H Eugene Hoyme","lastName":"Hoyme"},{"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","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7126&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Clarke","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer"},{"focus":"Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"}],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Oncology","displayName":"Michael F. Clarke, M.D.","lastName":"Clarke"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4605&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Irving_Weissman","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"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Irving","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","displayName":"Irving Weissman","lastName":"Weissman"},{"researchInterest":"Regulation of stem cell division and self-renewal Cell type specific transcription machinery and regulation of cell differentiation Developmental regulation of cell cycle progression during male meiosis Molecular dissection of the mechanism of cytokinesis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4159&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Margaret_Fuller","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Margaret","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology","displayName":"Margaret T. Fuller","lastName":"Fuller"},{"researchInterest":"Our laboratory uses genomics approaches to explore patterns of gene expression and gene copy number alteration in both human cancer cell line model systems and in tumors, with the goals of better understanding cancer, and developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6066&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jonathan_Pollack","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Jonathan","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","displayName":"Jonathan Pollack","lastName":"Pollack"},{"researchInterest":"Our goal is to define targets for cancer therapeutics by identifying alterations in signal transduction proteins. We first identified a naturally occurring  mutant EGF receptor (EGFRvIII) and then delineated its unique signal transduction pathway. This work led to the identification of Gab1 followed by the discovery that JNK is constitutively active in tumors. We intiated using altered proteins as the target for vaccination, where an EGFRvIII based vaccine appears to be highly effective.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7143&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Albert_Wong","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Albert","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery","displayName":"Albert J. Wong, M.D.","lastName":"Wong"},{"researchInterest":"The Reijo Pera Laboratory is focused on understanding key cell fates in the embryo, including the generation of pluripotent stem cells, somatic and germ cell lineages","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8036&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Renee_Reijo-Pera","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology - OB GYN Institutes"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Renee","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology - OB GYN Institutes","displayName":"Renee A. Reijo Pera, Ph.D.","lastName":"Reijo-Pera"},{"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":"Our lab focuses on how inflammatory responses after brain injury affect neurological recovery. We utilize translational approaches to understand molecular mechanisms underlying functional recovery.  Molecular events are modified in mice using either transgenic models or novel small molecule compounds, and then we evaluate the effects on functional recovery as well as on cellular and molecular responses.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6463&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marion_Buckwalter","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"firstName":"Marion","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","displayName":"Marion S. Buckwalter","lastName":"Buckwalter"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6206&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Bruce_Baker","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Bruce","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","displayName":"Bruce Baker","lastName":"Baker"},{"researchInterest":"Mechanism of genomic imprinting of insulin like growth factor-2 and other genes.Long range chromatin interactions Role of histone modifications and DNA methylation in gene expression.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4636&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Hoffman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Endocrinology/Gerontology/Metab"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neuroendocrinology"},{"focus":"Endocrinology and Metabolism"}],"firstName":"Andrew","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Endocrinology/Gerontology/Metab","displayName":"Andrew R. Hoffman","lastName":"Hoffman"}]}