{"result":[{"lastName":"van de Rijn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matt van de Rijn","firstName":"Matt","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Matt_van de Rijn","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis."},{"lastName":"Le","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Lung Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Salivary Gland Tumors - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Head and Neck Cancers - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Larynx Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Oral Cavity Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Sarcomas - Soft Tissue - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Skull Base Tumors - Radiation Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4003&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Quynh-Thu Le","firstName":"Quynh-Thu","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Quynh-Thu_Le","researchInterest":"My laboratory research interest focuses on the identification of biomarkers for prognosis in patients with head & neck or lung cancers. I am also conducting a number of clinical trials specifically in patients with head & neck cancers."},{"lastName":"Beck","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18189&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Beck","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Andrew_Beck","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Lipsick","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4244&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joseph (Joe) Lipsick","firstName":"Joseph","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Joseph_Lipsick","researchInterest":"Function and evolution of the Myb oncogene family; function and evolution of E2F transcriptional regulators and RB tumor suppressors; epigenetic regulation of chromatin and chromosomes; cancer genetics."},{"lastName":"Kong","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"},{"focus":"Cytopathology"},{"focus":"Gynecologic & Breast Pathology"},{"focus":"Head & Neck Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4718&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christina Kong","firstName":"Christina","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Christina_Kong","researchInterest":"Improving the accuracy of cytologic diagnosis through the use of ancillary techniques on specimens obtained by fine needle aspiration biopsy.\r\n\r\nIdentifying potential indicators of prognosis in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.\r\n\r\nEvaluating the utility of immunohistochemical stains in refining the diagnosis of squamous dysplasia of the cervix, vulva, and head and neck."},{"lastName":"Clarke","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"},{"appointment":"Cardinal Free Clinic Medical Graduate Student Manager,Dean's Office - Educational Programs and Services (EPS), Office of Community Health (OCH)"},{"appointment":"Stanford Student Employee,Dean's Office - Educational Programs and Services (EPS), Office of Community Health (OCH)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19984&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nicole Clarke","firstName":"Nicole","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Nicole_Clarke","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Arber","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"},{"focus":"Hematopathology"},{"focus":"Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3925&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel A. Arber, M.D.","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Daniel_Arber","researchInterest":"I study molecular genetic and immunophenotypic changes in human hematopoietic neoplasms. These include acute and chronic leukemias, lymphoma, and splenic tumors."},{"lastName":"Jensen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Cytopathology"},{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7660&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kristin Jensen","firstName":"Kristin","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Kristin_Jensen","researchInterest":"I am a clinical translational investigator with a primary interest in breast cancer biology, and the use of investigational and clinical ancillary techniques such as gene and tissue microarray analysis and immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis and prognosis of this disease. As a practicing cytopathologist, I also have an interest in improving the fine needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of breast lesions, again using immunohistochemistry and gene expression analysis as adjuncts to cytomorphology."},{"lastName":"Rouse","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4491&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert V Rouse","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Robert_Rouse","researchInterest":"My recent research efforts are currently focused in the field of applications of immunohistology to the diagnosis of human neoplasms. This work is predominantly aimed at characterizing markers for the identification of non-lymphoid neoplasms and at establishing criteria for their evaluation in diagnostic situations."},{"lastName":"Higgins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4038&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Higgins","firstName":"John","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/John_Higgins","researchInterest":"I work as a diagnostic surgical pathologist doing translational research in renal neoplasia and medical renal disease and neoplastic and medical liver disease. Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Robert_Tibshirani","researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis."},{"lastName":"Allison","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37019&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kimberly Allison","firstName":"Kimberly","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Kimberly_Allison","researchInterest":"Dr. Allison\u0092s clinical expertise is in breast pathology.  Her research interests include how standards should be applied to breast cancer diagnostics (such as HER2 testing), the utility of molecular panel-based testing in breast cancer, and identifying the most appropriate management of specific pathologic diagnoses. She is also the author of \u0093Red Sunshine\u0094, a memoir about her personal experience with breast cancer, a topic which she speaks about to both patient and health care audiences."},{"lastName":"Volkmer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20943&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anne Kathrin Volkmer","firstName":"Anne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Anne_Volkmer","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Warnke","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3786&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Roger Warnke","firstName":"Roger","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Roger_Warnke","researchInterest":"The research in my laboratory involves the application of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies and a variety of immunohistochemical methods to study human B-cell, T-cell, accessory cell and related neoplasms."},{"lastName":"King","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10623&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bonnie King, PhD","firstName":"Bonnie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Bonnie_King","researchInterest":"My areas of interest are mammary gland biology and translational breast cancer research. I recently joined the Contag lab as an NIH Career Re-Entry Scientist, where I am using molecular imaging tools to study the process of cancer cell dissemination during breast cancer progression."},{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato J. Giaccia","firstName":"Amato","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Amato_Giaccia","researchInterest":"During the last five years, we have identified several small molecules that kill VHL deficient renal cancer cells through a synthetic lethal screening approach. Another major interest of my laboratory is in identifying hypoxia-induced genes involved in invasion and metastases. We are also investigating how hypoxia regulates gene expression epigenetically."},{"lastName":"Sundram","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"},{"focus":"Dermatopathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Dermatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4058&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Uma N. Sundram, MD, PhD","firstName":"Uma","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Uma_Sundram","researchInterest":"Broad study of extramedullary myeloid tumors; Characterization of CD30+ lymphoproliferative disorders and pathogenesis; Mutational analysis of CD30+ lymphoproliferative disorders; Characterization of cutaneous mast cell disease and distinction from systemic mastocytosis; Comparison of systemic and cutaneous B cell lymphomas by immunohistochemical profiles and the use of tissue microarrays; microRNA studies of cutaneous lymphomas"},{"lastName":"Jeffrey","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4147&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stefanie S. Jeffrey, MD","firstName":"Stefanie","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Stefanie_Jeffrey","researchInterest":"Dr. Jeffrey was team leader of the multidisciplinary team from the School of Medicine, School of Engineering, and Genome Technology Center that invented the MagSweeper automated technology to isolate live circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from cancer patient blood for single cell analysis. Her lab characterizes CTCs in different cancers, investigating CTC profiles and mutations as potential companion diagnostics to define individual patient response to newer biologically-based cancer therapies."},{"lastName":"Kempson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5959&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Kempson","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Richard_Kempson","researchInterest":"Clinicopathologic studies in endometrial carcinoma, ovarian neoplasms, and soft tissue tumors."},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sahoo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10888&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Debashis Sahoo","firstName":"Debashis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Debashis_Sahoo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Albert J. Wong, M.D.","firstName":"Albert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Albert_Wong","researchInterest":"Our goal is to define targets for cancer therapeutics by identifying alterations in signal transduction proteins. We first identified a naturally occurring  mutant EGF receptor (EGFRvIII) and then delineated its unique signal transduction pathway. This work led to the identification of Gab1 followed by the discovery that JNK is constitutively active in tumors. We intiated using altered proteins as the target for vaccination, where an EGFRvIII based vaccine appears to be highly effective."},{"lastName":"Okada","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8191&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ami Okada","firstName":"Ami","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Ami_Okada","researchInterest":"Our interests are to understand the mechanism and control of signals that regulate proliferation and differentiation in adult tissue.  We are currently focused on studying modulation of the Hedgehog pathway in brain and muscle stem cell compartments during normal homeostasis and in degeneration or disease."}]}