Seed Grants 2006
Project Lead | Affiliation | Title | Disease Area |
Raymond Anchan, MD, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Derivation of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) from blastomere biopsies | Genetic Diseases |
Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD | Children's Hospital Boston | Development of a hematopoietic stem cell and lineage differentiation map and repository | Blood Diseases |
Bradley Bernstein, MD PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Epigenetic mechanisms of ES cell pluripotency | Genetic Diseases |
Keith Blackwell, MD | Joslin Diabetes Center | Functions of the oocyte RNA-binding P-body protein CAR-1 | Diabetes |
David Breault, MD, PhD | Children's Hospital Boston | Characterization of Putative Intestinal Progenitor/Stem Cells using mTert-GFP Transgenic Mice | Gastrointestinal Diseases |
Rona Carroll, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Mesenchymal stem cell-based therapy for human brain tumors | Cancer |
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD | Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology | Analysis of the pluripotency factors Oct4, Nanog and Sox2 in Adult Mice | Cancer |
Hanno Hock, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Deciphering the Biology of the Transcriptional Repressor Tel/Etv6 in Hematopoietic Stem Cells | Blood Diseases |
Charles Lin, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | In-vivo Imaging of Hemotopoietic Stem Cell Niche | Blood Diseases |
Anjana Rao, PhD | Immune Disease Institute | Identifying DNA demethylases | Genetic Diseases |
Rosalind Segal, MD, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Symmetric and Asymmetric Proliferation of Glioma Stem Cells | Cancer |
Yaming Wang, MD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Evaluation of the regeneration capacity of msx1-induced dedifferentiated cells | Genetic Diseases |
Jing-Wei Xiong, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | The Hemangioblast Development in Zebrafish | Cancer |