2008 HSCI Seed Grant recipients named
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May 1, 2008On May 1, 2008, the HSCI named the 10 recipients of the 2008 Seed Grant awards. This year's recipients were evaluated by the HSCI Seed Grant review committee and confirmed by the HSCI Executive Committee from a pool of 64 applicants. The 2008 recipients' projects represent work being done at 4 different Harvard affiliate locations and include 1 working in hESC and 3 researching iPS.
We are please to announce that the project of Sangeeta Bhatia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, is being supported by the Millipore Foundation.
2008 Seed Grant Recipients
| Name | Affiliation | Grant Title |
|---|---|---|
| Arlotta, Paola | Massachusetts General Hospital | Directed Differentiation of Neural Progenitors and iPS Cells into Corticospinal Motor Neurons |
| Bhatia, Sangeeta | Brigham & Women's Hospital | High-throughput platform for probing inductive interactions in embryonic stem cell differentiation |
| Burns, Caroline | Massachusetts General Hospital | Lineage Analysis of Cardiac Progenitor Cells in vivo |
| Haggarty, Stephen | Massachusetts General Hospital | Characterization on the Wnt/GSK-3beta Pathway in Fragile X Syndrome Using a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Model |
| Li, Xue | Children's Hospital Boston | Renal Progenitor Cells: Genetic Studies of Eya1 Protein Phosphatase |
| Lieberman, Judy | Immune Disease Institute | An siRNA screen for genes that regulate breast cancer stem cells |
| Pu, William | Children's Hospital Boston | Epicardial cardiac progenitors in the developing and adult heart |
| Wang, Zhong | Massachusetts General Hospital | ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling in mouse and human ES cell pluripotency |
| Wingert, Rebecca | Massachusetts General Hospital | Molecular networks regulating the segment fate decisions of renal progenitors |
| Wu, Sean | Massachusetts General Hospital | Functional biology of induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Organ |
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