Seed Grants 2005
Project Lead | Affiliation | Title | Disease Area |
Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | he pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell-of-origin | Cancer |
Dong Feng Chen, MD, PhD | Schepens Eye Research Institute | Repairing retinal disease and damage by neural stem/progenitor cell transplantation | Eye Diseases |
Alan James Davidson, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Functional genomics approach to identify genes expressed in the kidney | Kidney Diseases |
Kevin C. Eggan, PhD | Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology | Derivation of Parkinson's disease specific human embryonic stem cell lines | Nervous System Diseases |
Niels Geijsen, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | In vitro germ cell development and epigenetic reprogramming using human and murine ES cells | Genetic Diseases |
Rohit Kulkarni, MD, PhD | Joslin Diabetes Center | Identification of beta cell growth factor | Diabetes |
Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Analysis of X-chromosome inactivation in human embryonic stem cells | Genetic Diseases |
M. William Lensch, PhD | Children's Hospital Boston | The analysis of complex genetic syndromes using disease-specific human embryonic stem cell lines | Genetic Diseases |
Craig Michelli, PhD | Harvard Medical School | Progenitor cells in the adult Drosophila gut: understanding tissue renewal in endoderm lineages | Gastrointestinal Diseases |
Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Placenta as a niche for hematopoietic stem cell development | Blood Diseases |
Rosario Sanchez-Pernaute, MD, PhD | McLean Hospital | Characterization, transplantation and functional analysis of dopamine neuronal progenitors derived from primate and human embryonic stem cells | Nervous System Diseases |
Amy Wagers, PhD | Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology | Biology and function of adult skeletal muscle precursor cells | Musculoskeletal Diseases |