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