{"result":[{"lastName":"Cheng","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8291&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Zhen Cheng","firstName":"Zhen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Zhen_Cheng","researchInterest":"To develop novel molecular imaging probes and techniques for non-invasively early detection of cancer using multimodality imaging technologies including PET, SPECT, MRI, optical imaging, etc."},{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato J. 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We are also investigating how hypoxia regulates gene expression epigenetically."},{"lastName":"Kuo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5906&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Calvin Kuo","firstName":"Calvin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Calvin_Kuo","researchInterest":"We explore angiogenesis, cancer genomics, intestinal stem cells, and hepatic glucose metabolism.  Angiogenesis projects include endothelial miRNA and GPCR ko mice, blood-brain barrier regulation, stroke therapeutics and anti-angiogenic cancer therapy.  Intestinal stem cell projects use primary intestinal culture and mouse genetics to study injury-inducible vs homeostatic stem cells.  We use primary organoid cultures of diverse tissues for oncogene functional screening and therapeutics discovery."},{"lastName":"Miao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10306&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Zheng Miao","firstName":"Zheng","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Zheng_Miao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sun","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14635&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Conroy Sun","firstName":"Conroy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Conroy_Sun","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Christen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16058&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Christen","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Thomas_Christen","researchInterest":"Noninvasive oxygenation measurement with MRI\r\nMRI relaxometry\r\nNumerical simulation\r\n19F MRI"},{"lastName":"Hestrin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4343&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shaul Hestrin","firstName":"Shaul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Shaul_Hestrin","researchInterest":"The main interest of my lab is to understand how the properties of neocortical neurons and the circuits they form give rise to cortical activity and function. Our approach includes recordings from multiple cells, calcium imaging, two-photon imaging and viral-based optogenetic methods to activate  cortical neurons as well as cortical afferents."},{"lastName":"Stafford","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29941&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jason Stafford","firstName":"Jason","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jason_Stafford","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sasportas","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20140&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laura Sarah Sasportas","firstName":"Laura","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Laura_Sasportas","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Essock-Burns","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34806&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Emma Essock-Burns","firstName":"Emma","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Emma_Essock-Burns","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Brown","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4536&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Martin Brown","firstName":"Martin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Martin_Brown","researchInterest":"We seek to understand the mechanisms responsible for the resistance of cancers to treatment and to develop strategies to overcome these resistances. We are using molecular and cellular techniques and mouse models to potentiate the activity of radiation on tumors by inhibiting the bone marrow rescue of the tumor vasculature following therapy."},{"lastName":"Goris","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4509&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael L. Goris","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Goris","researchInterest":"Radio-immunotherapy. Medical Imaging Processing. 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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. 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We intiated using altered proteins as the target for vaccination, where an EGFRvIII based vaccine appears to be highly effective."},{"lastName":"Ilovich","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=30109&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ohad Ilovich","firstName":"Ohad","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ohad_Ilovich","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Gambhir","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nuclear Medicine"},{"focus":"Radiology"},{"focus":"PET Scan"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Materials Science and Engineering - Engineering Materials Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3971&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD","firstName":"Sanjiv","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sanjiv_Gambhir","researchInterest":"My laboratory focuses on merging advances in molecular biology with those in biomedical imaging to advance the new field of molecular imaging. Methods to image gene expression in living subjects have been developed.  Newer approaches to image fundamental cellular events with optical and radiolabeled probes are under active investigation. 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We are currently working on gene expression in endothelial cells at sites of pathology."},{"lastName":"Gurtner","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Plastic Surgery"},{"focus":"Plastic & Recon Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Materials Science and Engineering - Engineering Materials Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6890&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Geoffrey Gurtner","firstName":"Geoffrey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Geoffrey_Gurtner","researchInterest":"Geoffrey Gurtner's Lab is interested in understanding the mecahnism of new blood vessel growth following injury and how pathways of tissue regeneration and fibrosis interact in wound healing."},{"lastName":"Assad Kahn","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37701&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Suzana Kahn","firstName":"Suzana","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Suzana_Assad Kahn","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Schaefer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Visiting Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Visiting Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23991&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Schaefer","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Richard_Schaefer","researchInterest":"- derivation of neural progenitor cells from hESCs\r\n- derivation of patient specific iPSCs\r\n- mesenchymal stromal cells\r\n- immunomodulation"}]}