Seed Grants 2011
Project Lead | Affiliation | Title | Disease Area |
Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Functional characterization of genes associated with abnormal liver tests for liver development and repair – a post-GWAS approach | Liver Disease |
Stanley Shaw, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Small molecule inhibitors of p16INK4a: proof-of-concept for the generation of iPS cells via a high-throughput screening platform | Cardiovascular Disease |
Carla F. Kim, PhD | Boston Children's Hospital | Imprinted gene regulation in lung and skin stem cell self-renewal | Cancer |
Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Engineered fascia for stem cell therapy in hernia repair | Hernia |
Rakesh Karmacharya, MD, PhD | McLean Hospital | Identification of cellular signatures for schizophrenia in iPSC-derived neuronal cells | Neuropsychiatric Diseases |
Sandra McAllister, PhD | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Understanding how systemic factors govern breast cancer stem cell plasticity and malignancy | Cancer |
Chien-Wei (Eric) Liao, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Transcriptome and functional analysis of neural crest stem cell | Genetic Diseases |
Xu Wu, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Controlling stem cell self-renewal and differentiation using small molecule modulators of hippo signaling pathway | Cancer |
Jordan A. Kreidberg, MD | Boston Children's Hospital | Reprogramming ES and IPS cells into kidney progenitor cells | Kidney Disease |
Joy Wu, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital | Chemical screening of pluripotent stem cells for modifiers of mesenchymal lineage commitment | Osteoporosis |