Seed Grants 2007
Project Lead | Affiliation | Title | Disease Area |
Li Chai, MD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | SALL4 Dependent Transcriptional Network in Human and Murine Embryonic Stem Cells | Cancer |
Zheng-Yi Chen, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Inner ear stem cell genes: identification, function and role in hair cell regeneration | Hearing Loss |
Dieter Egli, PhD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University | Derivation of patient specific human embryonic stem cell lines by chromosome transfer into human zygotes and blastomeres | Genetic Diseases |
Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Epithelial Cell Lineage Analysis During Renal Repair | Kidney Disease |
Richard I. Gregory, PhD | Children's Hospital Boston | Promoting stem cell expansion through chemical inhibition of microRNA-mediated cell differentiation | Genetic Diseases |
Carla F. Kim, PhD | Children's Hospital Boston | Lineage tracing of lung stem cells in vivo & in vitro | Lung Disease |
Kameran Lashkari, MD | The Schepens Eye Research Institute | Application of retinal progenitor cells derived from eyes with persistent fetal vasculature to replace lost retinal ganglion cells in clinical glaucoma | Eye Diseases |
Stuart H. Orkin, MD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Down Syndrome, somatic mutation of GATA-1, and acute megakaryoblastic (M7 AML) leukemia | Cancer |
Sridhar Rao, MD, PhDIbrahim Domian, MD, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Massachusetts General Hospital | Identification of Master Transcriptional Regulators for Early Lineage Commitment | Cancer |
Sabina Signoretti, MD | Brigham & Women's Hospital | Identification of stem cells in prostate and bladder epithelia | Urinary Diseases |