{"result":[{"lastName":"Kay","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Human Gene Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"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. Kay, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Program in Human Gene Therapy and Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics.  Respected worldwide for his work in gene therapy for hemophilia, Dr. Kay and his laboratory focus on establishing the scientific principles and developing the technologies needed for achieving persistent and therapeutic levels of gene expression in vivo. The major disease models are hemophilia, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B viral infections."},{"lastName":"Frank","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8065&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Curtis Frank","firstName":"Curtis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Curtis_Frank","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Einav","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,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":"My lab focuses on better understanding virus-host protein-protein interactions. We combine novel proteomic approaches, including high-fidelity microfluidics platforms, with molecular virology, biochemical, and functional genomic approaches for identification of host partners conservatively required by various viruses and development of broad-spectrum antiviral strategies with a high genetic barrier for resistance. 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The mechanism by which a liver-specific microRNA regulates hepatitis C virus genome replication is under intense scrutiny. In addition, the mechanism of internal ribosome entry in certain cellular and viral mRNAs and its biological role in growth and development is being investigated."},{"lastName":"Fire","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Fire","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Fire","researchInterest":"We study natural cellular mechanisms for adapting to genetic change. These include systems activated during normal development and those for detecting and responding to foreign or unwanted genetic activity. Underlying these studies are questions of how a cells can distinguish information as \"self\" versus \"nonself\" or \"wanted\" versus \"unwanted\"."},{"lastName":"Cheung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"Hepatology (Liver)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"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. 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."},{"lastName":"Pham","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18029&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edward Pham","firstName":"Edward","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Edward_Pham","researchInterest":"My research interest is translational molecular virology, with a specific focus on hepatitis C virus (HCV). Using both biophysical and genetic tools, I aim to identify viral and host targets that are essential in the viral life cycle and subsequently develop high-throughput assays to identify novel compounds that can inhibit these targets. Particular attention is given to compounds that can be re-purposed for HCV treatments."},{"lastName":"Heilshorn","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8100&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sarah Heilshorn","firstName":"Sarah","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sarah_Heilshorn","researchInterest":"Protein engineering\r\nTissue engineering\r\nRegenerative medicine\r\nBiomaterials"},{"lastName":"Mulyasasmita","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19579&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Widya Mulyasasmita","firstName":"Widya","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Widya_Mulyasasmita","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Foung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Transfusion Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4155&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Foung","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Foung","researchInterest":"Our research focus is on the early events of hepatitis C virus infection- virus attachment and entry into susceptible cells. 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":"Pfeffer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4087&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Suzanne Pfeffer","firstName":"Suzanne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Suzanne_Pfeffer","researchInterest":"The goal of our research is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which proteins are targeted to specific membrane compartments. How do transport vesicles select their contents, bud, translocate through the cytoplasm, and then fuse with their targets? We study the Ras-like Rab GTPases--how they serve as master regulators of all receptor trafficking events.  We also study how cells acquire cholesterol from the diet and from LDL."},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hepatology"},{"focus":"Primary liver cancer"},{"focus":"Chronic hepatitis B and C"},{"focus":"Liver transplantation"},{"focus":"Community Outreach"},{"focus":"Cirrhosis"},{"focus":"End-stage liver disease"},{"focus":"Liver tumors"},{"focus":"Evaluation of abnormal liver tests"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5874&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mindie H. 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Current HBV and HCV clinical trials including interferon-free studies for HCV and studies in HBV/pregnancy, HBV/normal ALT, diagnostic/treatment evaluation/adherence for liver cancer and viral hepatitis."},{"lastName":"Cao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Pediatrics - Human Gene Therapy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Pediatrics - Human Gene Therapy","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":"Yang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Orthopaedic Surgery"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Orthopaedic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14953&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Fan Yang","firstName":"Fan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Fan_Yang","researchInterest":"Our research seeks to understand how microenvironmental cues regulate stem cell fate, and to develop novel biomaterials and stem cell-based therapeutics for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Our work spans from fundamental science, technology development, to translational research.We are particularly interested in developing better therapies for treating musculoskeletal diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancer."},{"lastName":"Barron","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8312&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Annelise E. 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Our current research efforts focus on evaluating potential new diagnostic and treatment markers and novel targeted therapy for primary liver cancer."},{"lastName":"Lutchman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10440&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Glen Lutchman","firstName":"Glen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Glen_Lutchman","researchInterest":"My primary research intesret is in metabolic liver disease primarily non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. I also have an interset in transplant outcomes for patients with chronic hepatitis C."},{"lastName":"Lan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13653&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Feng Lan","firstName":"Feng","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Feng_Lan","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17747&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Long H. 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