{"result":[{"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":"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":"Boyd","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematopathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13458&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Scott Boyd, MD PhD","firstName":"Scott","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Scott_Boyd","researchInterest":"The lymphocytes of the human immune system share some biological properties with human cancers: in each case, there are subpopulations of cells whose genomes are rearranged and mutated compared to other cells in the body. Our goal is to understand the genotype-phenotype relationships in lymphoid cells that determine the behavior of human diseases. We apply new analytical methods, particularly high-throughput DNA sequencing, in parallel with functional assays, to tackle this challenge."},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19814&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Khoa D Nguyen","firstName":"Khoa","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Khoa_Nguyen","researchInterest":"Immunology\r\nInnate Immunity\r\nMetabolism"},{"lastName":"Merker","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14772&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jason Merker","firstName":"Jason","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jason_Merker","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. 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I have a specific interest in the treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes with non-myeloablative and reduced intensity transplant conditioning regimens."},{"lastName":"Gawad","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"},{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18360&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Charles Gawad","firstName":"Charles","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Charles_Gawad","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Negrin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4138&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Negrin","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Robert_Negrin","researchInterest":"Our labaratory focuses on the study of immune recognition by T and NK cells with special emphasis on graft vs host disease and graft vs tumor reactions. We utilize both murine and human systems in an effort to enhance graft vs tumor reactions while controlling graft vs host disease. We have developed bioluminescence models in collaboration with the Contag laboratory to study the trafficking of immune effector cells with a special emphasis on NK, T and regulatory T cells."},{"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":"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":"Fire","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Fire","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Andrew_Fire","researchInterest":"We study natural cellular mechanisms for adapting to genetic change. These include systems activated during normal development and those for detecting and responding to foreign or unwanted genetic activity. Underlying these studies are questions of how a cells can distinguish information as \"self\" versus \"nonself\" or \"wanted\" versus \"unwanted\"."},{"lastName":"Grumet","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4535&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frank Carl Grumet","firstName":"Frank","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Frank_Grumet","researchInterest":"Work in our laboratory is focused on the study of the human major histocompatibility (HLA) complex. We are seeking to characterize the genes and gene products of this complex and to understand their role in determining transplantation and transfusion compatibility. Laboratory work on this topic ranges from clinical studies correlating graft rejection with HLA antigens identified by classical serology or DNA typing."},{"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":"Li","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Software Developer,Pediatrics - Systems Medicine"},{"appointment":"Software Developer, Research,Pediatrics - Systems Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Software Developer,Pediatrics - Systems Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=27445&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Li Li","firstName":"Li","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Li_Li","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Kambham","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Renal Pathology"},{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3829&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Neeraja Kambham","firstName":"Neeraja","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Neeraja_Kambham","researchInterest":"Research interests primarily involve medical diseases of the native and transplant kidney. Other interests include liver transplantation pathology and gastrointestinal pathology."},{"lastName":"Utz","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4001&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Utz","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Paul_Utz","researchInterest":"The long-term research goal of Dr. Utz\u0092s laboratory is (1) to develop a better understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms underlying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other autoimmune diseases by exploring signaling pathways that are activated during apoptosis; and (2) to better understand the complicated process of programmed cell death."},{"lastName":"Grimm","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul C. 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Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Twist","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant,  Pediatric"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4366&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Clare J. Twist","firstName":"Clare","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Clare_Twist","researchInterest":"My primary research interest is in the study and treatment of neuroblastoma. My clinical interests also include Wilms tumor, hepatoblastoma, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders, phase I therapies for hematologic malignancies, as well as  palliative and end of life care."},{"lastName":"Scandling","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4276&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Scandling","firstName":"John","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/John_Scandling","researchInterest":"Clinical renal transplantation; acute renal failure;, cardiovascular disease in diabetic end-stage renal disease."}]}