{"result":[{"lastName":"Lowsky","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3811&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Lowsky","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Robert_Lowsky","researchInterest":"Dr. Lowsky's research is focused on understanding the role of regulatory T cells in the prevention of GVHD and in promoting immune tolerance following organ transplantation."},{"lastName":"Johnston","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"BMT"},{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"},{"focus":"Graft-Versus-Host Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4572&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laura Johnston","firstName":"Laura","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Laura_Johnston","researchInterest":"Clinical research in allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), more specifically, allogeneic transplantation and graft versus host disease. Exploring methods of improving prevention and treatment of GVHD as well as the long term follow-up and/or quality of life of affected patients."},{"lastName":"Laport","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4546&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ginna G. Laport","firstName":"Ginna","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Ginna_Laport","researchInterest":"haploidentical transplantation, follicular lymphoma, adoptive immunotherapy,supportive care"},{"lastName":"Negrin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4138&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Negrin","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Robert_Negrin","researchInterest":"Our labaratory focuses on the study of immune recognition by T and NK cells with special emphasis on graft vs host disease and graft vs tumor reactions. We utilize both murine and human systems in an effort to enhance graft vs tumor reactions while controlling graft vs host disease. We have developed bioluminescence models in collaboration with the Contag laboratory to study the trafficking of immune effector cells with a special emphasis on NK, T and regulatory T cells."},{"lastName":"Busque","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3809&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephan Busque","firstName":"Stephan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Stephan_Busque","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Grumet","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4535&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frank Carl Grumet","firstName":"Frank","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Frank_Grumet","researchInterest":"Work in our laboratory is focused on the study of the human major histocompatibility (HLA) complex. We are seeking to characterize the genes and gene products of this complex and to understand their role in determining transplantation and transfusion compatibility. Laboratory work on this topic ranges from clinical studies correlating graft rejection with HLA antigens identified by classical serology or DNA typing."},{"lastName":"Blume","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4180&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Karl Blume","firstName":"Karl","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Karl_Blume","researchInterest":"Allogeneic and autologous bone marrow transplantation (experimental and clinical) as a treatment modality for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, hereditary disorders, immune defects and selective solid tumors. Development of novel preparatory regimens to prevent the recurrence of the underlying malignancies. Studies for the prevention of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease. Testing of new anti-viral agents to prevent or treat viral infections."},{"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/tissuebank/researcher/Samuel_Strober","researchInterest":"Mechanisms of immune tolerance; regulatory processes in autoimmunity and transplantation and extrathymic T cell maturation."},{"lastName":"Stearns","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6244&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tim Stearns","firstName":"Tim","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Tim_Stearns","researchInterest":"We use the tools of genetics, microscopy, and biochemistry to understand fundamental questions of cell biology: How are cells organized by the cytoskeleton? How does the cytoskeleton effect chromosome segretation with high fidelity? How is cell division coordinated with duplication of the centrosome, and what goes wrong in cancer cells defective in this coordination?"},{"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/tissuebank/researcher/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":"Sarwal","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4430&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Minnie Sarwal","firstName":"Minnie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Minnie_Sarwal","researchInterest":"Molecular and immunological basis of transplant dysfunction and acceptance. cDNA microarray analysis of transplant rejection defined a novel role for B cells in poor prognostic categories of transplant rejection. Also identified a tolerance footprint of < 50 genes that can diagnose tolerance in peripheral blood. Pioneered the first steroid free trial in pediatric kidney transplantation, (NIH-multicenter study). Runs the Bay Area Cystinosis and Stanford Pediatric Renal Transplant clinics."},{"lastName":"Stockerl-Goldstein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4547&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Keith Stockerl-Goldstein, M.D.","firstName":"Keith","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Keith_Stockerl-Goldstein","researchInterest":"Clinical investigation of bone marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation for lymphoproliferative disease and solid tumors; immunotherapy following high-dose therapy and transplantation; supportive care following transplantation; immune system reconstitution."},{"lastName":"Kohrt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10873&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Holbrook Kohrt","firstName":"Holbrook","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Holbrook_Kohrt","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Salvatierra","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney Transplantation, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Urology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4212&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Oscar Salvatierra","firstName":"Oscar","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Oscar_Salvatierra","researchInterest":"A. Pediatric Immunosuppression with Current Emphasis on Development of Complete Steroid-Free Immunosuppression for Children\r\n\r\nB. Changes in Hemodynamics and Blood Vessel Morphology Following Transplantation of Adult-Sized Kidneys to Infants and Small Children\r\n\r\nC. Study of Immunological and Physiological Variances in Infants and Small Children following Renal Transplantation\r\n\r\nD. Use of Small, Contracted Defunctionalized Urinary Bladders Following Kidney Transplantation"},{"lastName":"Davis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4117&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald Davis","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Ronald_Davis","researchInterest":"We are using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Human to conduct whole genome analysis projects. The yeast genome sequence has approximately 6,000 genes. We have made a set of haploid and diploid strains (21,000) containing a complete deletion of each gene. In order to facilitate whole genome analysis each deletion is molecularly tagged with a unique 20-mer DNA sequence. This sequence acts as a molecular bar code and makes it easy to identify the presence of each deletion."},{"lastName":"Kambham","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Renal Pathology"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3829&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Neeraja Kambham","firstName":"Neeraja","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Neeraja_Kambham","researchInterest":"Research interests primarily involve medical diseases of the native and transplant kidney. Other interests include liver transplantation pathology and gastrointestinal pathology."},{"lastName":"Higgins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4038&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Higgins","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/John_Higgins","researchInterest":"I work as a diagnostic surgical pathologist doing tissue and cDNA microarray-based translational research in renal neoplasia and medical renal disease. Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Grimm","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul C. Grimm","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Paul_Grimm","researchInterest":"Computerized image analysis of kidney and liver biopsies to quantitate and diagnose subtle changes in tissue structure. \r\nRenal Fibrosis in; \r\n-Primary Kidney Disease\r\n-Transplant Kidney Disease\r\nLiver fibrosis\r\nSteatohepatitis"},{"lastName":"Brown","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation / Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and \r\nMarrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4665&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Janice Brown","firstName":"Janice","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Janice_Brown","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Scandling","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4276&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Scandling","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/John_Scandling","researchInterest":"Clinical renal transplantation; acute renal failure;, cardiovascular disease in diabetic end-stage renal disease."},{"lastName":"Amylon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"},{"focus":"Ped Hematology/Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6097&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Amylon","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Michael_Amylon","researchInterest":"Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a treatment modality which is being broadly applied to a growing number of disorders. Increasing success with BMT is offering improved survival to pediatric and adult patients with acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, lymphomas, and a variety of solid tumors as well as severe aplastic anemia."},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6893&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Vu Nguyen","firstName":"Vu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Vu_Nguyen","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3846&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jane C. Tan","firstName":"Jane","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Jane_Tan","researchInterest":"My research relates to issues pertaining to clinical kidney transplantation. We have ongoing studies on the following topics.\r\n1. Renal senescence and kidney transplant, and chronic allograft nephropathy.\r\n2. Living donor safety and response to uninephrectomy.\r\n3. Biomarkers for post-transplant monitoring."},{"lastName":"Kao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10881&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Yu-Shan Kao","firstName":"Yu-Shan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Yu-Shan_Kao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Crabtree","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4283&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gerald Crabtree","firstName":"Gerald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/tissuebank/researcher/Gerald_Crabtree","researchInterest":"The role of chromatin in stem cell formation and function. Development of small molecule regulators as experimental probes and therapeutic leads. Signaling through calcineurin and NFAT in vertebrate development."}]}