{"result":[{"lastName":"Cherry","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4249&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mike Cherry","firstName":"JMichael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/JMichael_Cherry","researchInterest":"The focus of my group is the application of bioinformatics to the collection and dissemination genetic, genomic and cellular  information. We abstracts the published results into our database, SGD. We explore the volumes of information that have been elucidated for the budding yeast S. cerevisiae.  My research is the applied use computers and databases: designing a resource to effectively provide biological information to the research community, and the development of the Gene Ontology."},{"lastName":"Altman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - BMIR"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4706&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Russ B. Altman","firstName":"Russ","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Russ_Altman","researchInterest":"I refer you to my web page for detailed list of interests, projects and publications.  In addition to pressing the link here, you can search \"Russ Altman\" on http://www.google.com/"},{"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":"Davis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4117&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald Davis","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Davis","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."},{"lastName":"Fraser","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15112&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hunter Fraser","firstName":"Hunter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Hunter_Fraser","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Statistics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Statistics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6454&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wing Wong","firstName":"Wing","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wing_Wong","researchInterest":"Current interest centers on the application of statistics to problems arsing from biology. We are particularly interested in questions concerning gene regulation and signal transduction."},{"lastName":"Diehn","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9248&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Maximilian Diehn, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Maximilian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Maximilian_Diehn","researchInterest":"My lab focuses on cancer stem cell biology and its implications for cancer therapy. We are interested in developing a deeper molecular understanding of cancer stem cells, including identifying pathways and genes important for proliferation and self renewal. We also study these processes in normal adult stem cells in order to identify differences that could be exploited therapeutically. The goal of our studies is the development of novel therapeutic strategies for eliminating cancer stem cells."},{"lastName":"Butte","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6603&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Atul Butte","firstName":"Atul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Atul_Butte","researchInterest":"Translational bioinformatics has been defined as the development of analytic\r\nmethods to help transform increasingly voluminous genomic and biological data into diagnostics and therapeutics for the clinician.  The long-term research goal of the Butte Lab is to develop translational bioinformatics methods to reason over many available genome-scale measurement and experimental modalities, and apply these methods to study complex disorders in genomic medicine, especially obesity and diabetes."},{"lastName":"Jonquet","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biomedical Informatics (IDP)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biomedical Informatics (IDP)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8970&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Clement Jonquet","firstName":"Clement","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Clement_Jonquet","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Statistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Tibshirani","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."},{"lastName":"Musen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - BMIR"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - BMIR","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4164&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Musen","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Musen","researchInterest":"My laboratory investigates the use of distributed, component-based software architectures to build intelligent computer systems. Emphasis is on knowledge modeling and knowledge reuse. Our goals are to enhance methodologies that faculitate building and maintaining electronic knowledge bases that can drive useful biomedical computer systems. Current work concentrates on automation of clinical practice guidelines and clinical-trial protocols, and surveillance for potential episodes of bioterrorism."},{"lastName":"Pollack","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6066&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jonathan Pollack","firstName":"Jonathan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jonathan_Pollack","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."},{"lastName":"Liu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9664&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chih Long Liu","firstName":"Chih","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Chih_Liu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Rubin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10416&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Rubin","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Rubin","researchInterest":"My research interest is imaging informatics--ways computers can work with images to leverage their rich information content and to help physicians use images to guide personalized care. Work in our lab thus lies at the intersection of biomedical informatics and imaging science."},{"lastName":"Pringle","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7022&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John R. Pringle","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Pringle","researchInterest":"Much of our research exploits the power of yeast as an experimentally tractable model eukaryote to investigate fundamental problems in cell and developmental biology such as the mechanisms of cell polarization and cytokinesis.  In another project, we are developing the small sea anemone Aiptasia as a model system for study of the molecular and cellular biology of dinoflagellate-cnidarian symbiosis, which is critical for the survival of most corals but still very poorly understood."},{"lastName":"Alizadeh","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9558&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ash A. Alizadeh, MD/PhD","firstName":"Arash","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Arash_Alizadeh","researchInterest":"My research is focused on attaining a better understanding of the initiation, maintenance, and progression of lymphoid tumors, and their response to immunochemotherapy toward improving current treatment strategies.  \r\n\r\nIn this effort, I employ tools from functional genomics, computational biology, molecular genetics, and mouse models.  I hope to apply this knowledge towards the design of clinical trials in the treatment of patients with lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma."},{"lastName":"Das","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - BMIR"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - BMIR","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5918&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amar K. 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Please refer to our web site for more information:  http://mendel.stanford.edu/SidowLab/index.html"},{"lastName":"Martchenko","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9939&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mikhail Martchenko","firstName":"Mikhail","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mikhail_Martchenko","researchInterest":"Fungal and bacterial pathogens and their interactions with mammalian hosts."},{"lastName":"Petrov","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=6234&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dmitri Petrov","firstName":"Dmitri","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dmitri_Petrov","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Van de Rijn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matt Van de Rijn","firstName":"Matt","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Matt_Van de Rijn","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."},{"lastName":"Flaherty","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10273&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patrick Flaherty","firstName":"Patrick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Patrick_Flaherty","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Levitin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8734&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anastasia Levitin","firstName":"Anastasia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anastasia_Levitin","researchInterest":"Bacterial antibiotics resistance."},{"lastName":"Tran","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8562&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Phuoc T. 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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."}]}