Recent Alumni
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Ozan Alkan | |
| Position: Postdoctoral Fellow until 2007 | ||
| Currently: Research Scientist Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard The RNAi Consortium (TRC) oalkan@broad.mit.edu |
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| Research Interests: Regulation of hemapoietic stem cell self-renewal by transcription factors; Lentiviral vectors. | ||
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Andrea Banfi | |
| Blau Lab Member until 2004 | ||
| Currently: Professor Dept. of Research (Cell and Gene Therapy) Basel University Hospital abanfi@uhbs.ch |
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Tim Brazelton | |
| Blau Lab MD / Ph.D. student until 2004 | ||
| Currently: Assistant Professor Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia brazelton@email.chop.edu |
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| Research Interests: Stem Cell Reprogramming | ||
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Georges von Degenfeld | |
| Blau Lab Research Scientist (M.D./Ph.D.) until 2005 | ||
| Currently: Laboratory Head at Bayer Healthcare | ||
| Research Interests: in vivo imaging; cell-mediated therapeutic angiogenesis. georges.vondegenfeld @ bayerhealthcare.com |
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Regis Doyonnas | |
| Blau Lab Senior Scientist (Ph.D.) until 2008 | ||
| Currently: Principal Scientist GeMM CoE, Pfizer Global Research and Development regis.doyonnas@pfizer.com |
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| Research Interests: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Muscle Stem Cell Niche | ||
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Mark Hammer | |
| Blau Lab Undergraduate Student until 2008 | ||
| Currently: Graduate Student at Stanford School of Medicine | ||
| Research Interests: Dissociation of GPCR Internalization and Activation; Beta-Gal Complementation assays of Protein Interactions. mhammer@stanford.edu |
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Clas Johansson | |
| Position: Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow (DDS, Ph.D.) until 2007 | ||
Currently: CMM Karolinska Institute/
Karolinska Hospital |
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| Research Interests: Heterokaryons and Nuclear Reprogramming in vivo in Brain. | ||
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Gilmor Keshet | |
| Blau Lab Member Until 2004 | ||
| Currently: Chiam Sheba Medical Center | ||
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Mark LaBarge | |
| Blau Lab Graduate Student until 2004 | ||
| Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Dept. of Cancer Biology malabarge@gmail.com |
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| Research Interests: Adult Stem Cell Differentiation | ||
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Matthias Lutolf | |
| Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow until 2007 | ||
Currently: Assistant Professor |
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| Research Interests: Stem Cell Bioengineering, Biomolecular Materials | ||
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Adam Palermo | |
| Blau Lab Graduate Student until 2008 | ||
| Currently: adam.palermo@genzyme.com |
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| Research Interests: Genome-wide species-specific microarrays for studies of global nuclear reprogramming. | ||
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Jason Pomerantz | |
| Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow (M.D.) until 2007 | ||
| Currently: Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, UCSF jason.pomerantz@ucsfmedctr.org |
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| Research Interests: Nuclear Reprograming of Cell Fate by fusion; Chromatin Remodelling. | ||
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Fabio Rossi | |
| Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow / Senior Scientist until 2001 |
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| Currently: Assistant Professor Biomedical Research Center University of British Columbia Department of Medical Genetics fabio@brc.ubc.ca Webpage: University of British Columbia Faculty Page |
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| Research Interests: Adult Stem Cells: Maintenance and Differentiation | ||
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Alessandra Sacco | |
| Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow / Senior Scientist until 2009 |
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| Currently: Assistant Professor Sandford Burnham Medical Research Institute La Jolla, CA asacco@sanfordburnham.org |
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| Research Interests: Stem cell-based strategies for treating muscle wasting diseases and understanding how aging affects the muscle stem cell compartment | ||
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George Sen | |
| Blau Lab Graduate Student until 2005 | ||
| Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow in Khavari Lab (Stanford) gsen@stanford.edu |
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| Research Interests: Ristrich-enzyme generated siRNAs (REGS); elucidation of RNAi pathways. | ||
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Matt Springer | |
| Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow/ Senior Scientist until 2003 | ||
| Currently: Assistant Professor Dept. of Medicine, Cardiology,UCSF matt.springer@ucsf.edu Webpage: UCSF Lab Website |
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| Research Interests: Angiogenesis and gene therapy | ||
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Stefan Vitorovic | |
| Blau Lab Undergraduate Student until 2008 |
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| Currently: | ||
| Research Interests: Transcriptional profiling of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Cell fate decisions and stem cell self-renewal. Ex vivo expansion and maintenance of stem cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. Neurobiology. Biotechnology. Bioengineering. | ||
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Tom Wehrman | |
| Blau Lab Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow until 2005 | ||
| Currently: Group Leader at DiscoveRx twehrman@discoverx.com |
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| Research Interests: Protein translocation and protein interactions in cell signalling assayed by beta-galactosidase complementation; in vivo imaging of beta-gal in live mice. | ||
| Research Interests: Angiogenesis and gene therapy | ||
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Frank Zhang | |
| Blau Lab Research Scientist until 2008 | ||
| Currently: | ||
| Research Interests: nuclear reprogramming; chromatin remodelling. | ||
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