2010 Seed Grants

Project Lead Affiliation Title  
Andrew Brack, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital The Regulation and Functional capacity of Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells in Dystrophic Muscle  
C. Geoffrey Burns, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital Chemical genetic screen for modifiers of cardiac stem cell function during zebrafish embryogenesis  
Cassandra Extavour, PhD Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Exploring germline regeneration: a transcriptome approach to understanding transdifferentiation of somatic cells into germ cells  
Richard I. Gregory, PhD Children's Hospital Boston Molecular and cellular function of a novel stem cell factor Trim71  
Craig P. Hunter, PhD Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Control of stem cell homeostasis by the dsRNA transporter SidT2  
Akio Kobayashi, PhD Brigham & Women's Hospital Cell fate decision in nephron progenitor cells of the kidney  
Andrew Lassar, PhD Harvard Medical School How FGF signals maintain phenotypic plasticity in mesenchymal stem cells  
Zhe Li, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital Luminal progenitors as cells of origin for breast cancer  
Jayaraj Rajagopal, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Identification of Factors that Direct the Differentiation of ES Cells into lung endoderm progenitors using developmentally guided growth factors and chemical screening platforms  
Judith Arunodhaya Steen, PhD Children's Hospital Boston Quantitative Proteomics to Reveal Progenitor Specific Markers on the Cell Surface