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Half of the lab is wet benches where we take advantage of cell systems, transgenic models and microsurgical models of disease to prove causality of our favorite targets."},{"lastName":"Dewey","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17660&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frederick Dewey","firstName":"Frederick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Frederick_Dewey","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sheikh","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation"},{"focus":"Mechanical Circulatory Support"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35536&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ahmad Sheikh","firstName":"Ahmad","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Ahmad_Sheikh","researchInterest":"Molecular imaging of cardiac stem cell therapy\r\nHeart failure\r\nCardiothoracic Transplantation\r\nSurgical Education"},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10507&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shijun Hu","firstName":"Shijun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Shijun_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Han","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34686&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lichy Han","firstName":"Lichy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Lichy_Han","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sanchez Freire","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17565&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Veronica Sanchez Freire","firstName":"Veronica","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Veronica_Sanchez Freire","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Pratx","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16137&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Guillem Pratx","firstName":"Guillem","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Guillem_Pratx","researchInterest":"My research interests center around three areas of medical physics: radionuclide imaging, X-ray molecular imaging and high-performance medical computing. My research efforts aim to advance cancer care by integrating new imaging techniques into the clinical workflow, and further our basic understanding of cancer biology by designing new assays that can probe subtle biochemical processes in single cells."},{"lastName":"Hancock","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6911&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"E William Hancock","firstName":"E","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/E_Hancock","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Haskell","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6108&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Haskell","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/William_Haskell","researchInterest":"My major research interests and activities over the next several years will focus on the development and evaluation of the objective measurement of physical activity in free-living populations using a variety of sensing devices and mobile phones for data collection and processing. Also, I will continue to direct the Stanford Heart Network with the major mission being to assist community-based CVD prevention/treatment programs implement more effective heart attack and stroke prevention programs."},{"lastName":"Lee","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17791&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Lee","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Andrew_Lee","researchInterest":"Stem cell based therapies for treatment of heart disease"},{"lastName":"Abilez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9317&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Oscar J. 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