{"result":[{"lastName":"Boucard","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9569&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Antony Boucard","firstName":"Antony","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Antony_Boucard","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Garcia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Structural Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4370&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chris Garcia","firstName":"Chris","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Chris_Garcia","researchInterest":"Structural and functional studies of transmembrane receptor interactions with their ligands in systems relevant to human health and disease - primarily in immunity, infection, and neurobiology.  We study these problems using protein engineering, structural, biochemical, and combinatorial biology approaches."},{"lastName":"Sudhof","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8533&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Sudhof","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Thomas_Sudhof","researchInterest":"Information transfer at synapses mediates information processing in brain, and is impaired in many brain diseases. Thomas Südhof is interested in how synapses are formed, how presynaptic terminals release neurotransmitters at synapses, and how synapses become dysfunctional in diseases such as autism or Alzheimer's disease. To address these questions, Südhof's laboratory employs approaches ranging from biophysical studies to the electrophysiological and behavioral analyses of mutant mice."},{"lastName":"Ko","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9949&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jae Won Ko","firstName":"Jae Won","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jae Won_Ko","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Weis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Structural Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Structural Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4259&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Weis","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Weis","researchInterest":"Our laboratory studies molecular interactions that underlie the establishment and maintenance of cell and tissue structure.  Our specific areas of interest are the targeted delivery of proteins to intracellular membranes, the architecture and dynamics of intercellular adhesion junctions, and signaling pathways that govern cell fate determination.  We also have a long-standing interest in carbohydrate-based cellular recognition and adhesion."},{"lastName":"Garner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3890&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Craig C. Garner","firstName":"Craig","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Craig_Garner","researchInterest":"Our laboratory is studying synapse formation, stability and elimination at a variety of levels, e.g. from molecules to behavior.  A primary focus of the lab is to understanding the role that individual molecules play in the assembly and function of synaptic junctions.  In addition we evaluating a variety of potential treatments for cognitive impairment in Down syndrome in part by assessing the impact specific drugs on cognitive function in mouse models of Down syndrome."},{"lastName":"Ely","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9001&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lauren Ely","firstName":"Lauren","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lauren_Ely","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Levitt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Structural Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Structural Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4494&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Levitt","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Levitt","researchInterest":"Is it possible to understand the molecular structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids in enough detail to make accurate predictions about structure and function? We are mounting a two-pronged attack on this problem using both molecular dynamics simulation and molecular modeling."},{"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":"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":"LI","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9800&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"QING LI","firstName":"QING","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/QING_LI","researchInterest":"In embryonic/neonatal life, there is a wave of developmentally programmed islet cell death (apoptosis) in the pancreas in mice, rats, and humans.  Using gene chips, we have found that the gene expression of a number of genes activated by type 1 interferon (interferon alpha) increases sharply between postnatal weeks 3 and 4.  This is coincident with the time when large amounts of cellular breakdown products are released in the islets of Langerhans by a wave of developmentally programmed cell dea"},{"lastName":"Liu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9027&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tianyun Liu","firstName":"Tianyun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tianyun_Liu","researchInterest":""},{"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":"McKay","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Structural Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Structural Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4099&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David B. McKay","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_McKay","researchInterest":"Three-dimensional structure determination and biophysical studies of macromolecules."},{"lastName":"Cochran","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6393&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jennifer R. Cochran","firstName":"Jennifer","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jennifer_Cochran","researchInterest":"Molecular Bioengineering, Protein Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Molecular Imaging"},{"lastName":"Herzenberg","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4151&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Leonard Herzenberg","firstName":"Leonard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Leonard_Herzenberg","researchInterest":"Gene Regulation; Molecular Immunology; Lymphocyte subsets; Fluorescence-Activated Cell\u000bSorter (FACS) development; AIDS; Apoptosis; Redox Regulation; Gene Arrays; and the theraphy of AIDS using the anti-oxidant N'acetylcysteine(NAC)."},{"lastName":"Kasson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Chemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Chemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9965&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Kasson","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peter_Kasson","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hiller","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10117&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Hiller","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Hiller","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Minary","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Structural Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Structural Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10270&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Minary","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peter_Minary","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Baldwin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6816&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Baldwin","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Baldwin","researchInterest":"I closed my laboratory when I retired in 1998.  I continue to do research, chiefly in collaboration with Franc Avbelj, on problems of protein folding energetics, especially peptide backbone solvation,  and to write reviews."},{"lastName":"Madison","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4321&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel V. Madison","firstName":"Vernon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Vernon_Madison","researchInterest":"Our laboratory uses electrophysiological techniques to study the mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity in the mammalian hippocampus. One of the main focuses in the lab is in the study of synaptic long-term potentiation (LTP). LTP is the persistent increase in synaptic strength that occurs after a period of heavy activity in a synaptic connection. It is the most widely studied and compelling model for mechanisms underlying memory formation in the mammalian central nervous system."},{"lastName":"Frydman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6222&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Judith Frydman","firstName":"Judith","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Judith_Frydman","researchInterest":"The long term goal  of our research is to understand how proteins fold in living cells. My lab uses a multidisciplinary approach to address fundamental questions about molecular chaperones, protein folding and degradation. In addition to basic mechanistic principles, we aim to define how impairment of cellular folding and quality control are linked to disease, including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases and examine whether  reengineering chaperone networks can provide therapeutic strategies."},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7992&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sharon F. Chen","firstName":"Sharon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sharon_Chen","researchInterest":"My research interest is focused on Herpes virus pathogenesis and the host immune response to these viral infections. To characterize these interactions, we use flow-cytometry based immunology assays, culture-based assays, molecular techniques and tissue histology. My current study investigates anti-viral immunity to CMV in lung transplant patients to characterize the kinetics of CMV-specific T-cell reconstitution and to test its ability to predict CMV infection and allograft rejection."}]}