Seed Grants 2009

Program Lead
Affiliation
Title
Disease Area
Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD andTrista E. North, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital and
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Isolating novel regulators of liver regeneration through a chemical genetic modifier screen in zebrafish
Liver Disease
Mark Damone Johnson, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Cancer stem cells in meningiomas
Cancer
David M. Langenau, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Imaging notch pathway requirements for symmetric vs. asymmetric self-renewal divisions in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
Cancer
Sharad Ramanathan, PhD
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Studying decision making in single embryonic stem cells
Bioengineering
Derrick J. Rossi, PhD
Immune Disease Institute
In vivo reprogramming of lineage committed progenitor cells to hematopoietic stem cells
Blood Disease
Yu Hua Tseng, PhD
Joslin Diabetes Center
Identification and significance of brown fat progenitor cells
Diabetes
David Weinstock, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
DNA double-strand break repair in human pluripotent cells
Cancer
Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Identification of osteogenic progenitors in heterotopic ossification
Musculoskeletal Disease