2007 Seed Grants

Project Lead	Affiliation	Title
Dieter Egli, PhD	Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University	Derivation of patient specific human embryonic stem cell lines by chromosome transfer into human zygotes and blastomeres
Richard I. Gregory, PhD	Children's Hospital Boston	Promoting stem cell expansion through chemical inhibition of microRNA-mediated cell differentiation
Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD Ibrahim Domian, MD, PhD	Dana Farber Cancer Institute Massachusetts General Hospital	Identification of Master Transcriptional Regulators for Early Lineage Commitment
Sabina Signoretti, MD	Brigham & Women's Hospital	Identification of stem cells in prostate and bladder epithelia
Li Chai, MD	Brigham & Women's Hospital	SALL4 Dependent Transcriptional Network in Human and Murine Embryonic Stem Cells
Zheng-Yi Chen, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Inner ear stem cell genes: identification, function and role in hair cell regeneration
Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Epithelial Cell Lineage Analysis During Renal Repair
Carla F. Kim, PhD	Children's Hospital Boston	Lineage tracing of lung stem cells in vivo & in vitro
Kameran Lashkari, MD	The Schepens Eye Research Institute	Application of retinal progenitor cells derived from eyes with persistent fetal vasculature to replace lost retinal ganglion cells in clinical glaucoma
Stuart H. Orkin, MD	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Down Syndrome, somatic mutation of GATA-1, and acute megakaryoblastic (M7 AML) leukemia

Harvard Stem Cell Institute