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 |