{"result":[{"lastName":"de Jesus Perez","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Hypertension"},{"focus":"drug induced pulmonary hypertension"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7827&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Vinicio de Jesus Perez MD","firstName":"Vinicio","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Vinicio_de Jesus Perez","researchInterest":"My work is aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the development and progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).   I am interested in understanding the role that the BMP  and Wnt pathways play in regulating functions of pulmonary endothelial and smooth muscle cells both in health and disease."},{"lastName":"Nickel","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24303&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nils Nickel","firstName":"Nils","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nils_Nickel","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Yuan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ke Yuan","firstName":"Ke","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ke_Yuan","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Zamanian","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Hypertension"},{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7572&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Roham Zamanian","firstName":"Roham","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Roham_Zamanian","researchInterest":"1. The Utility of S100A4/Mts1 as a Biomarker in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH).\r\n\r\n2. Prevalence and Treatment of Insulin Resistance in PAH.\r\n\r\n3. The Effect of EGF-Receptor Blockade and Elastase Inhibitor on Pulmonary Arteries of Patients with PAH.\r\n\r\n4. Characterization of Pulmonary Arteries in Patients with Idiopathic and Secondary PAH by Wedge Angiography.\r\n\r\n5. The Optimal Angle for Angiographic Evaluation of the Left Pulmonary Artery in Patients with PAH."},{"lastName":"Tamosiuniene","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Research Associate,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"},{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Research Associate,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29095&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rasa Tamosiuniene, MD, PhD","firstName":"Rasa","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Rasa_Tamosiuniene","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Pearl","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4680&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald Pearl","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Pearl","researchInterest":"Mechanims (molecular and cellular) of pulmonary hypertension, treatment of pulmonary hypertension, treatment of respiratory failure, treatment of septic shock, hemodynamic monitoring"},{"lastName":"Kudelko","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Hypertension"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Critical Care"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9426&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kristina Kudelko","firstName":"Kristina","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kristina_Kudelko","researchInterest":"Drugs and toxins-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension, clinical outcomes research, acute kidney injury in pulmonary arterial hypertension"},{"lastName":"Rabinovitch","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3897&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marlene Rabinovitch","firstName":"Marlene","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marlene_Rabinovitch","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on understanding the regulation of genes associated with cardiovascular development and disease, through the use of cultured cells and tissues and genetically modified mouse models.   A variety of different aberrant pathways are being characterized, including those related to signaling through the bone morphogenetic proteins, serotonin and the S100 family of calcium binding proteins, and those defining how a microtubule associated protein regulates mRNA translation."},{"lastName":"Kao","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5961&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Kao","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peter_Kao","researchInterest":"Our research program has several active projects:\r\n1.) Pulmonary Vascular Disease \u0096 Simvastatin reversed experimental pulmonary hypertension, and is safe for treatment of patients. Blinded clinical trials of efficacy are in progress.\r\n2.) Lung inflammation and regeneration (stem cells)\r\n3.) Lung surfactant rheology and oxidative stress\r\n4.) Gene regulation by RNA binding proteins, NF45 and NF90 through transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms"},{"lastName":"Ashley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Inherited cardiovascular disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Genomic medicine"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy, Dilated"},{"focus":"Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. 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Half of the lab is wet benches where we take advantage of cell systems, transgenic models and microsurgical models of disease to prove causality of our favorite targets."},{"lastName":"Liao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Visiting Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Visiting Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=33861&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Xiaobo Liao","firstName":"Xiaobo","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Xiaobo_Liao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Weill","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Critical Care"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7227&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Weill","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Weill","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tsao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4070&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip S. Tsao, PhD","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Philip_Tsao","researchInterest":"Our primary interests are in the molecular underpinnings of vascular disease as well as assessing disease risk.  In addition to targeted investigation of specific signaling molecules, we utilize global genomic analysis to identify gene expression networks and regulatory units.  We are particularly interested in the role of microRNAs in gene expression pathways associated with disease."},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18501&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wing Tak Jack Wong","firstName":"Wing Tak Jack","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wing Tak Jack_Wong","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Kuan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6079&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Calvin Kuan, M.D., FAAP","firstName":"Calvin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Calvin_Kuan","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Stuart-Killion","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Intensive Care, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Pediatrics - Cardiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6925&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Regan Stuart, MD","firstName":"Regan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Regan_Stuart-Killion","researchInterest":"Pediatric acute lung injury following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery for repair of congenital heart defects."},{"lastName":"Vagelos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"valvular heart disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Radiation/Chemotherapy induced cardiac disease"},{"focus":"Pericardial disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4105&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Vagelos, MD","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Randall_Vagelos","researchInterest":"I. Congestive Heart Failure New Medical Therapies Prognostic Evaluation Selection for Cardiac Transplantation II. Screening for Myocardial Necrosis New ECG Monitoring Devices New Serum Markers III. Screening for CAD Patients Who Have Received Radiation Rx Diabetics Being Considered for Renal Transplantation\r\nIV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions."},{"lastName":"Sheikh","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation"},{"focus":"Mechanical Circulatory Support"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35536&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ahmad Sheikh","firstName":"Ahmad","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ahmad_Sheikh","researchInterest":"Molecular imaging of cardiac stem cell therapy\r\nHeart failure\r\nCardiothoracic Transplantation\r\nSurgical Education"},{"lastName":"Spin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Aortic Disease"},{"focus":"Marfan Syndrome and Aortic Disorders"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6448&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joshua M. Spin","firstName":"Joshua","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Joshua_Spin","researchInterest":"Dr. Spin began his research career studying the structural biology of low density lipoprotein, and has been augmenting his skills with intensive training in molecular biology techniques, particularly those involving high-throughput genetic expression profiling. He is especially interested in vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of smooth muscle differentiation and phenotypic switching in development and vascular disease. His latest work has focused on the biology of aortic aneurysms."},{"lastName":"Rosen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4245&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Glenn Rosen","firstName":"Glenn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Glenn_Rosen","researchInterest":"Our laboratory examines apoptotic and cell cycle pathways in cancer and lung disease. We have identified a novel cell cycle protein which regulates cell cycle progression in immune cells and the lung.  We are also studying signaling pathways that regulate cancer cell growth and metastasis."},{"lastName":"Maduke","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3812&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Merritt Maduke","firstName":"Merritt","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Merritt_Maduke","researchInterest":"Molecular mechanisms of chloride channels & transporters studied by integration of structural and electrophysiological methods."},{"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":"Dhillon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Critical Care Medicine"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7231&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gundeep Dhillon, MD, MPH","firstName":"Gundeep","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gundeep_Dhillon","researchInterest":"1. Use of an administrative database (UNOS) to study lung transplant outcomes.\r\n2. Expression of the plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI) 1 antibody in peripheral blood after lung transplantation and its association with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (chronic rejection).\r\n3. Impact of airway hypoxia, due to lack of bronchial circulation, on long-term lung transplant outcomes.\r\n4. CMV specific T-cell immunity in lung transplant recipients and its impact on acute rejection."}]}