{"result":[{"lastName":"Johnston","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"},{"focus":"Graft-Versus-Host Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4572&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laura Johnston","firstName":"Laura","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Laura_Johnston","researchInterest":"Clinical research in allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), more specifically, allogeneic transplantation and graft versus host disease. Exploring methods of improving prevention and treatment of GVHD as well as the long term follow-up and/or quality of life of affected patients."},{"lastName":"Arai","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6161&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sally Arai","firstName":"Sally","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Sally_Arai","researchInterest":"Research interest in utilizing post-transplant adoptive cellular immunotherapy to reduce GVHD and relapse in patients with high risk hematologic malignancies."},{"lastName":"Lowsky","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3811&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Lowsky","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Robert_Lowsky","researchInterest":"Dr. Lowsky's research is focused on understanding the role of regulatory T cells in the prevention of GVHD and in promoting immune tolerance following organ transplantation."},{"lastName":"Galel","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4139&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Susan Galel","firstName":"Susan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Susan_Galel","researchInterest":"Enhancement of transfusion safety and effectiveness, with a focus on quality assurance in transfusion therapy; transfusion medicine education; pediatric and adult transfusion therapy"},{"lastName":"Mocarski","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4146&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edward Mocarski","firstName":"Edward","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Edward_Mocarski","researchInterest":"My research interests focus on the biology and pathogenesis of cytomegalovirus (CMV), an opportunistic pathogen that causes significant disease worldwide. We developed global approaches and produced key insights into the areas of CMV gene regulation, DNA replication and packaging, maturation, impact on the host cell, disease pathogenesis, latency and reactivation, host cell signaling and chemokine system. These diverse findings address key aspects of the virus-host interaction."},{"lastName":"Nakasone","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36670&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hideki Nakasone","firstName":"Hideki","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Hideki_Nakasone","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Laport","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4546&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ginna G. Laport","firstName":"Ginna","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Ginna_Laport","researchInterest":"haploidentical transplantation, follicular lymphoma, adoptive immunotherapy,supportive care"},{"lastName":"Aghaee Pour","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37521&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nima Aghaee Pour","firstName":"Nima","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Nima_Aghaee Pour","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chaudhuri","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8849&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Abanti Chaudhuri","firstName":"Abanti","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Abanti_Chaudhuri","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Berquist","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"Ped Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4209&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Berquist","firstName":"William","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/William_Berquist","researchInterest":"Gastroenterology, gastointestinal motility, clinical management of pediatric liver transplant recipients."},{"lastName":"Benjamin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8612&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jonathan Benjamin","firstName":"Jonathan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jonathan_Benjamin","researchInterest":"My research interests adoptive transfer of defined subsets of lymphocytes for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. I have a specific interest in the treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes with non-myeloablative and reduced intensity transplant conditioning regimens."},{"lastName":"So","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Liver Cancer"},{"focus":"Liver Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4206&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Samuel So","firstName":"Samuel","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Samuel_So","researchInterest":"Through a 3 pronged comprehensive program: translational and clinical research, early detection and  treatment, and promoting education, awareness and immunization, we are working towards the development of new strategies that will lead to the elimination of hepatitis B worldwide and reduce the threat and incidence of liver cancer. Our current research efforts focus on evaluating potential new diagnostic and treatment markers and novel targeted therapy for primary liver cancer."},{"lastName":"Busque","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3809&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephan Busque","firstName":"Stephan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Stephan_Busque","researchInterest":"My research interest is focused on the improvement of clinical immunosuppression. I am  involved  in the evaluation of new immunosuppressive drugs, potentially more efficacious or less toxic.  My ultimate goal is to achieve tolerance, a state that would obviate the need for any drugs. I am an investigator part of a multidisciplinary tolerance induction project using total lymphoid irradiation and donor hematopoietic stem cells infusion after living donor kidney transplantation."},{"lastName":"Valantine","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4322&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hannah Valantine","firstName":"Hannah","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Hannah_Valantine","researchInterest":"My lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure."},{"lastName":"Agarwal-Hashmi","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant,  Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3836&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rajni Agarwal-Hashmi","firstName":"Rajni","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Rajni_Agarwal-Hashmi","researchInterest":"Hematopoietic Stem cell biology-created a SCID mouse model to study engraftment of cord blood derived hematopoietic cells and use of this model to develop gene transfer technology for Fanconi anemia.Clinical research interests are to develop new protocols to reduce toxicity from high doses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy and development of a comprehensive late effects clinic for the long term follow up of transplant patients."},{"lastName":"Cox","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology/Nutrition/Hepatology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4210&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kenneth L. Cox","firstName":"Kenneth","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Kenneth_Cox","researchInterest":"Gastroenterology, biliary motility, hormonal regulation, embryology, gastrointestinal tract, clinical management of pediatric liver transplant recipients."},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hepatology"},{"focus":"Primary liver cancer"},{"focus":"Chronic hepatitis B and C"},{"focus":"Liver transplantation"},{"focus":"Community Outreach"},{"focus":"Cirrhosis"},{"focus":"End-stage liver disease"},{"focus":"Liver tumors"},{"focus":"Evaluation of abnormal liver tests"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5874&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mindie H. Nguyen, MD, MAS","firstName":"Mindie","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Mindie_Nguyen","researchInterest":"Epidemiology and treatment of liver cancer; Multicenter study of early diagnosis of liver cancer with novel tumor markers; Colon cancer screening in Asian Americans; Multicenter randomized studies in HCV genotypes 6; Epidemiology and treatment outcomes of Asians with viral hepatitis.  Current HBV and HCV clinical trials including interferon-free studies for HCV and studies in HBV/pregnancy, HBV/normal ALT, diagnostic/treatment evaluation/adherence for liver cancer and viral hepatitis."},{"lastName":"Lutchman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10440&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Glen Lutchman","firstName":"Glen","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Glen_Lutchman","researchInterest":"My primary research intesret is in metabolic liver disease primarily non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. I also have an interset in transplant outcomes for patients with chronic hepatitis C."},{"lastName":"Strober","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4152&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Samuel Strober","firstName":"Samuel","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Samuel_Strober","researchInterest":"Mechanisms of immune tolerance; regulatory processes in autoimmunity and transplantation and extrathymic T cell maturation."},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17747&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Long H. Nguyen","firstName":"Long","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Long_Nguyen","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Kin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Colon and Rectal Surgery Specialty"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35074&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cindy Kin","firstName":"Cindy","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Cindy_Kin","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Martinez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4474&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Olivia Martinez","firstName":"Olivia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Olivia_Martinez","researchInterest":"EBV B cell lymphomas; pathways of immune evasion in the growth and survival of EBV B cell lymphomas;  mechanisms of graft rejection and tolerance induction; stem cell and solid organ transplantation."},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7992&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sharon F. Chen","firstName":"Sharon","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Sharon_Chen","researchInterest":"My research interest is focused on Herpes virus pathogenesis and the host immune response to these viral infections. To characterize these interactions, we use flow-cytometry based immunology assays, culture-based assays, molecular techniques and tissue histology. My current study investigates anti-viral immunity to CMV in lung transplant patients to characterize the kinetics of CMV-specific T-cell reconstitution and to test its ability to predict CMV infection and allograft rejection."}]}