2008 Seed Grants

Project Lead Affiliation Title
Paola Arlotta, PhD Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Directed Differentiation of Neural Progenitors and iPS Cells into Corticospinal Motor Neurons
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital
High-throughput platform for probing inductive interactions in embryonic stem cell differentiation
Stephen Haggarty, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
Characterization on the Wnt/GSK-3beta Pathway in Fragile X Syndrome Using a Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Model
Xue (Sean) Li, MD, PhD Children's Hospital
Renal Progenitor Cells: Genetic Studies of Eya1 Protein Phosphatase
Judy Lieberman, PhD Immune Disease Institute
An siRNA screen for genes that regulate breast cancer stem cells
Caroline E. Burns, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
Lineage Analysis of Cardiac Progenitor Cells in vivo
William T. Pu, MD Children's Hospital Boston
Epicardial cardiac progenitors in the developing and adult heart
Zhong Wang, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling in mouse and human ES cell pluripotency
Rebecca Wingert, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
Molecular networks regulating the segment fate decisions of renal progenitors
Sean Wu, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital
Functional biology of induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Organ