{"result":[{"lastName":"Eckburg","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7128&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Eckburg","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/cancer/physician/Paul_Eckburg","researchInterest":"Dr. Eckburg\u0092s research focuses on the search for the cause of Crohn\u0092s disease, an idiopathic form of inflammatory bowel disease. Recent studies suggest that an abnormal microbiota (a complex set of microbial communities in the gut) may be involved in its pathogenesis. Dr. Eckburg is using molecular techniques (e.g. DNA sequencing, laser tissue microdissection, and fluorescence microscopy) in combination with ecological statistics, to better define the role of the microbiota in Crohn's disease."},{"lastName":"Bik","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29145&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Elisabeth Bik","firstName":"Elisabeth","href":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/Elisabeth_Bik","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Costello","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15173&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Elizabeth Costello","firstName":"Elizabeth","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Elizabeth_Costello","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tompkins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"hospital epidemiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4603&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lucy Tompkins","firstName":"Lucy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Lucy_Tompkins","researchInterest":"Molecular epidemiology, hospital epidemiology, quality improvement in healthcare associated infections."},{"lastName":"Falkow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4488&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stanley Falkow","firstName":"Stanley","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Stanley_Falkow","researchInterest":"Dr. Falkow is no longer taking students or postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory.  \r\n\r\nPlease contact either Denise Monack (dmonack@stanford.edu) or Manuel Amieva (amieva@stanford.edu)."},{"lastName":"Peltz","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8527&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Peltz","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Gary_Peltz","researchInterest":"The laboratory develops and uses state of the art genomic methods to identify genetic factors affecting disease susceptibility, and to translate these findings into new treatments. We have developed a more efficient method for performing mouse genetic analysis, which has been used to analyze the genetic basis for 16 different biomedical traits. We are developing novel methods, and have developed a novel experimental platform that replaces mouse liver with functioning human liver tissue."},{"lastName":"Campbell","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6212&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Allan Campbell","firstName":"Allan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Allan_Campbell","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Ioannidis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18745&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Ioannidis","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/John_Ioannidis","researchInterest":"Evidence-based medicine\r\nClinical and molecular epidemiology\r\nHuman genome epidemiology\r\nResearch design\r\nReporting of research\r\nEmpirical evaluation of bias in research\r\nRandomized trials\r\nStatistical methods and modeling\r\nMeta-analysis and large-scale evidence\r\nPrognosis, predictive and personalized medicine and health\r\nSociology of science"},{"lastName":"Sidow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4393&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Arend Sidow","firstName":"Arend","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Arend_Sidow","researchInterest":"We are interested in the systems biology of molecular phenotypes, and how genetic variation affects them. The lab combines experimental approaches in developing mouse embryos as well as human cancers with computational analyses. Our main data engine is high-throughput sequencing. Please refer to our web site for more information:  http://mendel.stanford.edu/SidowLab/index.html"},{"lastName":"Amieva","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6150&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Manuel Amieva","firstName":"Manuel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Manuel_Amieva","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies the strategies pathogens utilize to colonize and subvert the epithelial barrier. We have focused on the epithelial junctions as a target for bacterial pathogens, since the cell-cell junctions serve as both a barrier to infection and also a major control site for epithelial function. In particular, we are interested in how the gastric pathogen Helicobater pylori may cause cancer by interfering with cell signaling at the epithelial junctions.  We are also studying how variou"},{"lastName":"Montgomery","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23650&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen B. 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We conduct immunology studies of seasonal influenza vaccines in twins, in a longitudinal cohort of young and elderly adults and in MELAS patients.   Additionally, we are a CDC Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment site for which we are enrolling volunteers with GBS into a genetics study and patients with mitochondrial diseases into a vaccine safety chart review study"},{"lastName":"Torres","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MS, Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20431&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marisa Torres","firstName":"Marisa","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Marisa_Torres","researchInterest":"biodefense, pathogen, virulence, antibiotic resistance, detection, forensics"},{"lastName":"Holodniy","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4021&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Holodniy","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mark_Holodniy","researchInterest":"My research program is currently focused in three areas: 1) translational research (HCV/HIV viral evolution and antiviral resistance prevalence and development), 2) HIV/HCV clinical trials (diagnostic assay/medical device, antiretrovirals, ARVs and immunomodulators), and 3) health services research focusing on cost effectiveness of HIV antibody and ARV resistance testing and ARV utilization and clincal outcome."},{"lastName":"Maecker","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=25058&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Holden Maecker","firstName":"Holden","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Holden_Maecker","researchInterest":"I'm interested in immune monitoring of T cell responses to chronic pathogens such as CMV, and the correlation of T cell response signatures with disease protection."},{"lastName":"Ruoss","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Critical Care Medicine"},{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4241&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen Ruoss","firstName":"Stephen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Stephen_Ruoss","researchInterest":"We have an active collaborative project examining basic and clinical aspects of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung infection in non-immune compromised adults. Studies have examined possible cellular immune mechanisms for increased susceptibility to these infections, and are also investigating aspects of optimal diagnosis and treatment. In addition, a clinical and translational research program is investigating the causes and genetic factors underlying the evolution of bronchiectasis."},{"lastName":"Sussman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4097&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Howard Sussman","firstName":"Howard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Howard_Sussman","researchInterest":"The general problem with which we are concerned is the elucidation of cellular mechanisms of gene regulation which are related to the neoplastic process in humans. The phenomenon of ectopic protein synthesis in human cancer offers a good experimental model for investigating this problem."},{"lastName":"Bouley","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4428&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donna M. Bouley","firstName":"Donna","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Donna_Bouley","researchInterest":"Research interests: ocular pathology, host-pathogen interactions in infectious disease, infectious disease in frogs, phenotypic characterization of tg and ko mice, histopathology of minimally-invasive radiological ablation techniques (focused ultrasound, cryoablation)."},{"lastName":"Roskin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=21093&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Krishna Roskin","firstName":"Krishna","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Krishna_Roskin","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sabatti","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14357&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chiara Sabatti","firstName":"Chiara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Chiara_Sabatti","researchInterest":"Statistical models and reasoning are key to our understanding of the genetic basis of human traits. Modern high-throughput technology presents us with new opportunities and challenges. We develop statistical approaches for high dimensional data in the attempt of improving our understanding of the molecular basis of health related traits."},{"lastName":"Cohen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4481&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stanley N. Cohen, MD","firstName":"Stanley","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Stanley_Cohen","researchInterest":"We study RNA decay and mechanisms that affect microbial antibiotic resistance, as well as the exploitation of host genes by pathogens. A small bioinformatics team within our lab has developed knowledge based systems to aid in investigations of gene expression on a genome-wide basis."}]}