Seed Grants 2008
Program Lead | Affiliation | Title | Disease Area |
Paola Arlotta, PhD | Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology | Directed differentiation of neural progenitors and iPS Cells into corticospinal motor neurons | Nervous System Disease |
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | High-throughput platform for probing inductive interactions in embryonic stem cell differentiation | Bioengineering |
Caroline E. Burns, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Lineage analysis of cardiac progenitor cells in vivo | Cardiovascular Disease |
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 | Genetic Diseases |
Xue (Sean) Li, MD, PhD | Boston Children's Hospital | Renal progenitor cells: Genetic studies of Eya1 protein phosphatase | Kidney Disease |
Judy Lieberman, PhD | Immune Disease Institute | An siRNA screen for genes that regulate breast cancer stem cells | Cancer |
William T. Pu, MD | Boston Children's Hospital | Epicardial cardiac progenitors in the developing and adult heart | Cardiovascular Disease |
Zhong Wang, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling in mouse and human ES cell pluripotency | Cardiovascular Disease |
Rebecca Wingert, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Molecular networks regulating the segment fate decisions of renal progenitors | Kidney Disease |
Sean Wu, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Functional biology of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived organ | Bioengineering |