2007 HSCI Seed Grant recipients named
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June 20, 2007On June 5, 2007, the HSCI named the 10 recipients of the 2007 Seed Grant awards. This year's recipients were selected by the HSCI Seed Grant review committee and confirmed by the HSCI Executive Committee from a pool of 66 applicants. The 2007 recipients' projects represent work being done at 6 different Harvard affiliate locations and include 5 working in hESC.
We are please to announce that the hESC projects of Dieter Egli, Harvard University, and Richard Gregory, Children's Hospital Boston, are being supported by The Paul Singer Family Foundation.
2007 Seed Grant Recipients
| Name | Affiliation | Grant Title |
|---|---|---|
| Li Chai | Brigham & Women's Hospital | SALL4 Dependent Transcriptional Network in Human and Murine Embryonic Stem Cells |
| Zheng-Yi Chen | Massachusetts General Hospital | Inner ear stem cell genes: identification, function and role in hair cell regeneration |
| Dieter Egli | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University | Derivation of patient specific human embryonic stem cell lines by chromosome transfer into human zygotes and blastomeres |
| Richard Gregory | Children's Hospital Boston | Promoting stem cell expansion through chemical inhibition of microRNA-mediated cell differentiation |
| Benjamin Humphreys | Brigham & Women's Hospital | Epithelial Cell Lineage Analysis During Renal Repair |
| Carla Kim | Children's Hospital Boston | Lineage tracing of lung stem cells in vivo & in vitro |
| Kameran Lashkari | The Schepens Eye Research Institute | Application of retinal progenitor cells derived from eyes with persistent fetal vasculature to replace lost retinal ganglion cells in clinical glaucoma |
| Stuart Orkin | Children's Hospital Boston | Down Syndrome, somatic mutation of GATA-1, and acute megakaryoblastic (M7 AML) leukemia |
| Sridhar Rao / Ibrahim Domian | Dana Farber Cancer Institute / Massachusetts General Hospital | Identification of Master Transcriptional Regulators for Early Lineage Commitment |
| Sabina Signoretti | Brigham & Women's Hospital | Identification of stem cells in prostate and bladder epithelia |
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