#  Seed Grants 2010 

 



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Sort**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