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Sort**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