{"result":[{"lastName":"Cho","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9098&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nam-Joon Cho, Ph.D.","firstName":"Nam-Joon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nam-Joon_Cho","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Einav","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9992&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shirit Einav","firstName":"Shirit","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Shirit_Einav","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Cheung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"Hepatology (Liver)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4732&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ramsey Cheung","firstName":"Ramsey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ramsey_Cheung","researchInterest":"Dr. Cheung's research interests focus on liver diseases, with emphasis on viral hepatitis. 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The approach is through the generation and functional studies of human monoclonal antibodies (HMAbs) to the virus envelope proteins with an emphasis on antibodies to conformational epitopes."},{"lastName":"Cao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9557&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dan Cao","firstName":"Dan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dan_Cao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Kay","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Human Gene Therapy"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Human Gene Therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4409&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark A. Kay, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Kay","researchInterest":"Mark A. 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How do transport vesicles select their contents, bud, translocate through the cytoplasm, and then fuse with their targets? 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