#  Seed Grants 2011 

 



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Sort**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