Seed Grants 2010
Project Lead | Affiliation | Title | Disease Area |
Andrew Brack, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | The regulation and functional capacity of skeletal muscle satellite cells in dystrophic muscle | Musculoskeletal Disease |
C. Geoffrey Burns, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Chemical genetic screen for modifiers of cardiac stem cell function during zebrafish embryogenesis | Cardiovascular Disease |
Cassandra Extavour, PhD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University | Exploring germline regeneration: a transcriptome approach to understanding transdifferentiation of somatic cells into germ cells | Genetic Diseases |
Richard I. Gregory, PhD | Boston Children's Hospital | Molecular and cellular function of a novel stem cell factor Trim71 | Genetic Diseases |
Craig P. Hunter, PhD | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University | Control of stem cell homeostasis by the dsRNA transporter SidT2 | Genetic Diseases |
Akio Kobayashi, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Cell fate decision in nephron progenitor cells of the kidney | Kidney Diseases |
Andrew Lassar, PhD | Harvard Medical School | How FGF signals maintain phenotypic plasticity in mesenchymal stem cells | Musculoskeletal Disease |
Zhe Li, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Luminal progenitors as cells of origin for breast cancer | Cancer |
Jayaraj Rajagopal, MD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Identification of factors that direct the differentiation of ES Cells into lung endoderm progenitors using developmentally guided growth factors and chemical screening platforms | Lung Disease |
Judith Arunodhaya Steen, PhD | Boston Children's Hospital | Quantitative proteomics to reveal progenitor specific markers on the cell surface | Cancer |