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Ozan Alkan
Ozan Alkan  
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow until 2007  
Currently: Research Scientist
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The RNAi Consortium (TRC)
oalkan@broad.mit.edu
 
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
 
Research Interests:  
     
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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
 
Research Interests: Stem Cell Reprogramming  
     
Georges von Degenfeld
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
 
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
   
Clas Johansson Clas Johansson
Position: Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow (DDS, Ph.D.) until 2007

Currently: CMM Karolinska Institute/ Karolinska Hospital
171 76 Stockholm
clas.johansson@ki.se

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  
Research Interests:
   
Mark LaBarge
Mark LaBarge
Blau Lab Graduate Student until 2004  
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Dept. of Cancer Biology
malabarge@gmail.com
 
Research Interests: Adult Stem Cell Differentiation  
     
Matthias Lutolf Matthias Lutolf
Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow until 2007

Currently: Assistant Professor
School of Life Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
matthias.lutolf@epfl.ch

Research Interests: Stem Cell Bioengineering, Biomolecular Materials
   
Adam Palermo Adam Palermo  
Blau Lab Graduate Student until 2008  
Currently: adam.palermo@genzyme.com
 
Research Interests: Genome-wide species-specific microarrays for studies of global nuclear reprogramming.
   
Jason Pomerantz (photo credit:peggy george) 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
Research Interests: Nuclear Reprograming of Cell Fate by fusion; Chromatin Remodelling.
   
photo of Fabio Rossi Fabio Rossi  
Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow / Senior Scientist until 2001
 
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
 
Research Interests: Adult Stem Cells: Maintenance and Differentiation  
   
Sacco Alessandra Sacco  
Blau Lab Postdoctoral Fellow / Senior Scientist until 2009
Currently: Assistant Professor
Sandford Burnham Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, CA
asacco@sanfordburnham.org
Research Interests: Stem cell-based strategies for treating muscle wasting diseases and understanding how aging affects the muscle stem cell compartment
   
George Sen George Sen  
Blau Lab Graduate Student until 2005  
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow in Khavari Lab (Stanford)
gsen@stanford.edu
 
Research Interests: Ristrich-enzyme generated siRNAs (REGS); elucidation of RNAi pathways.
   
photo of matt springer 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
 
Research Interests: Angiogenesis and gene therapy  
     
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Blau Lab Undergraduate Student until 2008
 
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.  
     
Tom Wehrman Tom Wehrman  
Blau Lab Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow until 2005  
Currently: Group Leader at DiscoveRx
twehrman@discoverx.com
 
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  
     
Fan Zhang Frank Zhang  
Blau Lab Research Scientist until 2008  
Currently:  
Research Interests: nuclear reprogramming; chromatin remodelling.
   



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