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Particularly, we focus on developing technologies to isolate and direct human pluripotent and adult stem cells towards pure multipotent neural stem cells. We use developmental biology tools to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the generation of multipotent human neural stem cells from human pluripotent stem cells. 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The ultimate aim of our laboratory is to manipulate T cell signaling pathways to control immunologically-mediated diseases."},{"lastName":"Ronaghi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18186&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mohammad Ronaghi","firstName":"Mohammad","href":"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mohammad_Ronaghi","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Ho","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Immunocompromised Host"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7106&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dora Ho","firstName":"Dora","href":"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dora_Ho","researchInterest":"Dr. Ho did her PhD work in HSV pathogenesis and postdoctoral research in CNS gene therapy with viral vectors.  Her current interests are in viral and fungal infections in immunocompromised patients and her research focuses on infection complications in neutropenic patients.  In collaboration with Dr. C. Dekker of the Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program and with Dr. J. Brown of the BMT Division, she is also conducting clinical trials on vaccines, antivirals and antifungals as a co-investigator."},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Albert J. Wong, M.D.","firstName":"Albert","href":"https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Albert_Wong","researchInterest":"Our goal is to define targets for cancer therapeutics by identifying alterations in signal transduction proteins. 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