William Gunn, PhD

Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley Ltd.
San Francisco, California, United States

Research field: Biological Sciences - Cellular Biology
Adult Stem Cell Research, Bone Biology, Statistical Analysis, Cancer, single molecule analytical techniques

Publications

Journal Article (7)
- W Grady Gunn, Ulf Krause, Narae Lee et al. (2011) Pharmaceutical inhibition of glycogen synthetase kinase-3β reduces multiple myeloma-induced bone disease in a novel murine plasmacytoma xenograft model., 1641-51. In Blood 117 (5).
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21...
  
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- Muzammil Iqbal, Martin A Gleeson, Bradley Spaugh et al. (2010) Label-Free Biosensor Arrays Based on Silicon Ring Resonators and High-Speed Optical Scanning Instrumentation, 654-661. In IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 16 (3).
  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epi...
  
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- William Gunn (2009) THE ROLE OF HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN REPAIR OF BONE.
  http://williamgunn.org/Dissertation W...
  
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- Carl A Gregory, Angela Green, Narae Lee et al. (2006) The promise of canonical Wnt signaling modulators in enhancing bone repair., 445-52. In Drug news & perspectives 19 (8).
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17...
- Carl A Gregory, William G Gunn, Emigdio Reyes et al. (2005) How Wnt signaling affects bone repair by mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow., 97-106. In Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1049 (1).
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15...
  
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- Carl A Gregory, W Grady Gunn, Alexandra Peister et al. (2004) An Alizarin red-based assay of mineralization by adherent cells in culture: comparison with cetylpyridinium chloride extraction., 77-84. In Analytical biochemistry 329 (1).
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- John A Pojman, Grady Gunn, Chilibra Patterson et al. (1998) Frontal Dispersion Polymerization, 3927-3929. In The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102 (20).
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Awards and Grants

Jan 2006

Board of Regents Fellowship
Jan 2005

Board of Regents Fellowship
Jan 2004

Board of Regents Fellowship
Jan 2003

Board of Regents Fellowship
Jan 2002

Board of Regents Fellowship

Biographical Information

I have been engaged in creating the future of science from the start. As a young child, I was fascinated by futuristic stories of science in Omni Magazine and Wired, leading me to get my PhD in the cutting edge field of stem cell biology. My first-hand experience with the inefficiencies and antiquities of "modern" academic research led me to join the team at Mendeley where I work on bringing modern network efficiencies to academic research.

I currently serve as the Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, a research management tool for collaboration and discovery.

Most recently, I did assay development for Genalyte, a molecular diagnostics startup. My work involved developing protein, DNA, and small molecule assays on their novel high-throughput assay platform.
I received my PhD from the Tulane University, where I studied under Dr. Darwin Prockop at the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy. My dissertation is entitled "Investigating the Role of Human Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in the Repair of Bone", in which I developed a model of multiple myeloma in mice and used it to test small molecule inhibitors of the interaction between multiple myeloma and bone precursor cells, promoting bone regeneration and repair of osteolytic lesions.
Specialties:

My work at Tulane involved self-guided experimental research on the relationship between Human Adult Stem Cells and cancer. My areas of expertise are bone biology, multiple myeloma, adult stem cells, and development of disease models.