{"result":[{"lastName":"Lu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3976&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bingwei Lu","firstName":"Bingwei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Bingwei_Lu","researchInterest":"We are interested in understanding how neural stem cells balance their self-renewal and differentiation and how deregulation of this process can result in brain tumor. We are also interested in mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer\u0092s and Parkinson\u0092s diseases. We are using both Drosophila and mammalian models to address these fundamental questions."},{"lastName":"Tsai","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=33962&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pei I Tsai","firstName":"Pei I","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Pei I_Tsai","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Covy","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24766&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jason C.","firstName":"Jason","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jason_Covy","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Millan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19537&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ivan Millan","firstName":"Ivan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ivan_Millan","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Mosca","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16852&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Timothy Mosca","firstName":"Timothy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Timothy_Mosca","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Krasnow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4120&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Krasnow","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Krasnow","researchInterest":"-  Lung development and stem cells\r\n-  Neural control of breathing\r\n-  Lung diseases including lung cancer\r\n-  New genetic model organisms for medicine"},{"lastName":"Samos","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Science Writer/Editor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Information Editor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Science Writer/Editor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=28093&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cynthia Samos","firstName":"Cynthia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Cynthia_Samos","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Roelens","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=32818&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Baptiste Roelens","firstName":"Baptiste","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Baptiste_Roelens","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Baker","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6206&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bruce Baker","firstName":"Bruce","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Bruce_Baker","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Li","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=21238&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Caiyun Li","firstName":"Caiyun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Caiyun_Li","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Poston","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"Parkinson Disease"},{"focus":"Parkinsonian Disorders"},{"focus":"Multiple System Atrophy"},{"focus":"Palsy, Progressive Supranuclear"},{"focus":"Essential Tremor"},{"focus":"Huntington Disease"},{"focus":"Ataxia"},{"focus":"Tics"},{"focus":"Dystonia Disorders"},{"focus":"Blepharospasm"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - 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I will study genes that functions to prevent the growth of tumors and regulates stem cell decisions. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that mediate the choice between self-renewal and differentiation in stem cells has important implications for many areas of biology, including ancer treatment, regenerative medicine and new cell-based therapies."},{"lastName":"Tobin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Sr Research Scholar (PI Waiver),Pediatrics - Centers, Center for Biomedical Ethics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6945&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sara L. (Sally) Tobin","firstName":"Sara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sara_Tobin","researchInterest":"Tobin is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. 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With these we are measuring local field potentials in basal ganglia nuclei in patients with Parkinson's disease and dystonian and correlating brain signalling with motor behavior."},{"lastName":"Zhang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rui Zhang","firstName":"Rui","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Rui_Zhang","researchInterest":"My goal is to combine theoretical and experimental approaches to uncover the mystery of gene regulatory networks. 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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":"Chiang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24223&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"HyoJin Chiang","firstName":"HyoJin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/HyoJin_Chiang","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Wang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=25080&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Xinnan Wang","firstName":"Xinnan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Xinnan_Wang","researchInterest":"Mitochondria move and undergo fission and fusion in all eukaryotic cells. The accurate allocation of mitochondria in neurons is particularly critical due to the significance of mitochondria for ATP supply, Ca++ homeostasis and apoptosis and the importance of these functions to the distal extremities of neurons. In addition, defective mitochondria, which can be highly deleterious to a cell because of their output of reactive oxygen species, need to be repaired by fusing with healthy mitochondria"},{"lastName":"Roth","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4175&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Roth","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Richard_Roth","researchInterest":"Insulin is one of the primary regulators of rapid anabolic responses in the body. Defects in the synthesis and/or ability of cells to respond to insulin results in the condition known as diabetes mellitus. To better design methods of treatment for this disorder, we have been focusing our research on how insulin elicits its various biological responses."},{"lastName":"Sarinay Cenik","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Elif Sarinay Cenik","firstName":"Elif","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Elif_Sarinay Cenik","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hansson Sterky","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37091&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Fredrik H. 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