{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4572&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laura Johnston","firstName":"Laura","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4546&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ginna G. Laport","firstName":"Ginna","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Ginna_Laport","researchInterest":"haploidentical transplantation, follicular lymphoma, adoptive immunotherapy,supportive care"},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6161&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sally Arai","firstName":"Sally","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8612&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jonathan Benjamin","firstName":"Jonathan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4152&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Samuel Strober","firstName":"Samuel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Samuel_Strober","researchInterest":"Mechanisms of immune tolerance; regulatory processes in autoimmunity and transplantation and extrathymic T cell maturation."},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4138&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Negrin","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36670&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hideki Nakasone","firstName":"Hideki","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Hideki_Nakasone","researchInterest":""},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3836&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rajni Agarwal-Hashmi","firstName":"Rajni","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"Grumet","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4535&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frank Carl Grumet","firstName":"Frank","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/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":"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3809&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephan Busque","firstName":"Stephan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"Kharbanda","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"},{"focus":"Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14715&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sandhya Kharbanda","firstName":"Sandhya","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Sandhya_Kharbanda","researchInterest":"1. Developing novel bone marrow transplant regimens for patients with hemoglobinopathies\r\n2. Cord blood transplantation"},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6893&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Vu Nguyen","firstName":"Vu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Vu_Nguyen","researchInterest":""},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4038&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Higgins","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3829&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Neeraja Kambham","firstName":"Neeraja","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"Advani","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Burkitt's Lymphoma"},{"focus":"Burkitt's Lymphoma - Hematology"},{"focus":"Burkitt's Lymphoma - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Hodgkin's Disease"},{"focus":"Investigational Therapeutics"},{"focus":"Leptommeningeal Disease"},{"focus":"Lymphoma "},{"focus":"Mycosis Fungoides"},{"focus":"Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"},{"focus":"Plasmacytoma"},{"focus":"Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia "},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4018&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ranjana Advani","firstName":"Ranjana","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Ranjana_Advani","researchInterest":"Clinical investigation in Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas and cutaneous lymphomas.  Experimental therapeutics with novel chemotherapy and biologically targeted therapies.\r\n\r\nThe research program is highly collaborative with radiation oncology, industry, pathology and dermatology."},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4276&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Scandling","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/John_Scandling","researchInterest":"Clinical renal transplantation; acute renal failure;, cardiovascular disease in diabetic end-stage renal disease."},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul C. Grimm","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Paul_Grimm","researchInterest":"Computerized image analysis of kidney and liver biopsies to quantitate and diagnose subtle changes in tissue structure. \r\nRenal Inflammation\r\nRenal Allograft Rejection\r\nRenal Fibrosis in; \r\n-Primary Kidney Disease\r\n-Transplant Kidney Disease\r\nLiver fibrosis\r\nSteatohepatitis"},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=27445&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Li Li","firstName":"Li","href":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/Li_Li","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Amylon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Ped Hematology/Oncology"},{"focus":"Hematology/Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6097&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Amylon","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Michael_Amylon","researchInterest":"Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a treatment modality which is being broadly applied to a growing number of disorders. Increasing success with BMT is offering improved survival to pediatric and adult patients with acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, lymphomas, and a variety of solid tumors as well as severe aplastic anemia."},{"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://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3925&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel A. Arber, M.D.","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/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":"Link","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant,  Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4631&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Link","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Michael_Link","researchInterest":"Hematology/Oncology, treatment of sarcomas of bone and soft tissue, biology of acute lymphoblastic leukemias, treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease."}]}