2006 Seed Grants

Project Lead Affiliation Title
Raymond Anchan, MD PhD Brigham & Women's Hospital
Derivation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) from blastomere biopsies
Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD Children's Hospital Boston
Development of a hematopoietic stem cell and lineage differentiation map and repository
Bradley Bernstein, MD PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
Epigenetic mechanisms of ES cell pluripotency
Keith Blackwell, MD Joslin Diabetes Center
Functions of the oocyte RNA-binding P-body protein CAR-1
David Breault, MD, PhD Children's Hospital
Characterization of Putative Intestinal Progenitor/Stem Cells using mTert-GFP Transgenic Mice
Rona Carroll, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mesenchymal stem cell-based therapy for human brain tumors
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Analysis of the pluripotency factors Oct4, Nanog and Sox2 in Adult Mice
Hanno Hock, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
Deciphering the Biology of the Transcriptional Repressor Tel/Etv6 in Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Charles Lin, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
In-vivo Imaging of Hemotopoietic Stem Cell Niche
Anjana Rao, PhD Immune Disease Institute
Identifying DNA demethylases
Rosalind Segal, MD PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Symmetric and Asymmetric Proliferation of Glioma Stem Cells
Yaming Wang, MD Brigham & Women's Hospital
Evaluation of the regeneration capacity of msx1-induced dedifferentiated cells
Jing-Wei Xiong, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
The Hemangioblast Development in Zebrafish