Research Labs
At Michigan Medicine research happens first in the lab. Find labs below organized by Medical School categories.
Lab Directory - Basic Sciences
Baldridge Lab (Ryan Baldridge, PhD)
Bardwell Lab (James Bardwell, PhD)
Brito Querido Lab (Jay Brito Querido, PhD)
Chapman Lab (Matthew Chapman, PhD)
Cianfrocco Lab (Michael Cianfrocco, PhD)
Collins Lab (Kathleen Collins, MD, PhD)
DeSantis Lab (Morgan DeSantis, PhD)
Freddolino Lab (Lydia Freddolino, PhD)
Herman Fung Lab (Herman Fung, PhD)
Giessen Lab (Tobias Giessen, PhD)
Joglekar Lab (Ajit Joglekar, PhD)
Kerppola Lab (Tom Kerppola, PhD)
Koutmou Lab (Kristin Koutmou, PhD)
Moon Lab (Stephanie Moon, PhD)
Morrissey Lab (Jim Morrissey, PhD)
Mosalaganti Lab (Shyamal Mosalaganti, PhD)
Nandakumar Lab (Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, PhD)
Niederer Lab (Rachel Niederer, PhD)
O'Brien Lab (Pat O'Brien, PhD)
O'Meara Lab (Teresa O'Meara, PhD)
Filipa Pereira Lab (Filipa Barroso Pereira, PhD)
Pletcher Lab (Scott Pletcher, PhD)
Prensner Lab (John Prensner, MD, PhD)
Todd Lab (Peter Todd, MD, PhD)
Vecchiarelli Lab (Anthony Vecchiarelli, PhD)
Walter Lab (Nils G. Walter, PhD)
NOBEL Lab (Carlos Aguilar, PhD)
Antonuk Lab (Larry Antonuk, PhD)
Arnold Lab (Kelly Arnold, PhD)
Biomechanics Research Laboratory (James Ashton-Miller, PhD)
Baker Lab (Brendon Baker, PhD)
Functional Imaging Group (Yue Cao, PhD)
Systems Biology and Drug Discovery Lab (Sriram Chandrasekaran, PhD)
Chester Lab (Cindy Chestek, PhD)
Unity Lab (María Coronel, PhD)
Draelos Lab (Anne Draelos, PhD)
Ultrasound Lab (Mario Fabiilli, PhD)
Sherman Fan Lab (Xudong (Sherman) Fan, PhD)
Computational Vascular Biomechanics Lab (C. Alberto Figueroa, PhD)
Franceschi Lab (Renny Franceschi, PhD)
Integrated Biosystems and Biomechanics Lab - IBBL (Jianping Fu, PhD)
Rehabilitation Biomechanics Lab (Deanna Gates, PhD)
Heemskerk Lab (Idse Heemskerk, PhD)
Direct Brain Interface Lab (Jane E Huggins, PhD)
Lab for Optimization and Computation in Orthopaedic Surgery - LOCOS (Richard Hughes, PhD)
Jensen Lab (Karin Jensen, PhD)
Joglekar Lab (Ajit Joglekar, PhD)
Ultrasound Lab (Oliver Kripfgans, PhD)
NeuRRo Lab (Chandramouli Krishnan, PhD)
Skeletal Tissue Engineering Laboratory (Lisa Larkin, PhD)
Neuromodulation Lab (Scott Lempka, PhD)
Lesher-Pérez Research Group (Sasha Cai Lesher-Pérez, PhD)
Leventhal Lab (Daniel Leventhal, PhD, MD)
Advanced Biotherapeutics Lab (Jiahe Li, PhD)
Laboratory of Integrated Brain Imaging (Zhongming Liu, PhD)
Maerz Lab (Tristan Maerz, PhD)
Engineered Cellular Microenvironments (ECM) Lab (Geeta Mehta, PhD)
Systems Biology of Human Diseases (Deepak Nagrath, PhD)
Cardio Biomechanics Lab (David Nordsletten, DPhil)
Restorative Neuroengineering Group (Parag Patil, PhD, MD)
Putnam Lab (Andrew Putnam, PhD)
Shikanov Lab (Ariella Shikanov, PhD)
Spence Lab (Jason R. Spence, PhD)
Translational Tissue Modeling Laboratory (Jason R. Spence, PhD)
Neural Engineering in Epilepsy Lab (William Stacey, M.D., PhD)
CMITE Lab (Jan Stegemann, PhD)
Tewari Lab (Muneesh Tewari, PhD, MD)
Thurber Lab (Greg Thurber, PhD)
Vander Roest Cardiac Mechanobiology Lab (Alison Vander Roest, PhD)
Optical Imaging Lab (Xueding Wang, PhD)
BioElectronic Vision Lab (James Weiland, PhD)
Histotripsy Group (Zhen Xu, PhD)
Altschuler Lab (Richard A. Altschuler, PhD)
Arvan Lab (Peter Arvan, MD, PhD)
Bardwell Lab (James Bardwell, PhD)
Castro-Lowenstein Lab (Maria G. Castro, PhD | Pedro Lowenstein, PhD)
Coulombe Lab (Pierre Coulombe, PhD)
Integrated Biosystems and Biomechanics Lab - IBBL (Jianping Fu, PhD)
Herman Fung Lab (Herman Fung, PhD)
Hammer Lab (Gary D Hammer, PhD)
Heemskerk Lab (Idse Heemskerk, PhD)
Joglekar Lab (Ajit Joglekar, PhD)
Khoriarty Lab (Rami Khoriaty, MD)
Spatial Biodynamics Lab (Changyang Linghu, PhD)
Mosalaganti Lab (Shyamal Mosalaganti, PhD)
Parent Lab (Carole Parent, PhD)
Pasca di Magliano Lab (Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD)
Pearring Lab (Jillian N. Pearring, PhD)
Spence Lab (Jason R. Spence, PhD)
Translational Tissue Modeling Laboratory (Jason R. Spence, PhD)
Spriggs Lab (Chelsey Spriggs, PhD)
Verhey Lab (Kristen Verhey, PhD)
Weisman Lab (Lois Weisman, PhD)
Athey Lab (Brian D. Athey, PhD)
Draelos Lab (Anne Draelos, PhD)
Freddolino Lab (Lydia Freddolino, PhD)
Lana Garmire Group (Lana Garmire, PhD)
Michigan Kidney Translational Medicine Center - MiKTMC (Matthias Kretzler, MD)
Mills Lab (Ryan E. Mills, PhD)
Najarian Lab (Kayvan Najarian, PhD)
Proteomics & Integrative Bioinformatics Lab (Alexey Nesvizhskii, PhD)
Maom Lab (Matthew O'Meara, PhD)
Parker Lab (Stephen CJ Parker, PhD)
Rajapakse Lab (Indika Rajapakse, PhD)
Systems Imaging & Bioinformatics Lab (Arvind Rao, PhD)
Sartor Lab (Maureen Sartor, PhD)
Speliotes Lab (Elizabeth K Speliotes, MD, PhD, MPH)
Antonellis Lab (Anthony Antonellis, PhD)
Camper Lab (Sally Camper, PhD)
Ginsburg Lab (David Ginsburg, MD)
Hammoud Lab (Sue Hammoud, PhD)
Kalantry Lab (Sundeep Kalantry, PhD)
Chromatin Neurobiology Lab (Shigeki Iwase, PhD)
Lukaszewicz Lab (Agnieszka Lukaszewicz, PhD)
Martin Lab (Donna Martin, MD, PhD)
McLoughlin Lab (Hayley McLoughlin, PhD)
Meisler Lab (Miriam Meisler, PhD)
Mills Lab (Ryan E. Mills, PhD)
Moon Lab (Stephanie Moon, PhD)
Mueller Lab (Jacob Mueller, PhD)
Parker Lab (Stephen CJ Parker, PhD)
Prasov Lab (Lev Prasov, MD, PhD)
Rajesh Rao Lab (Rajesh Rao, MD)
Shavit Lab (Jordan Shavit, MD, PhD)
Wilson Lab (Thomas Wilson, MD, PhD)
Zhang Lab (Xinjun (Jun) Zhang, PhD)
SocialWorlds Research Group (Mark S. Ackerman, PhD)
EMERSE (David Hanauer, M.D, MS, FACMI, FAMIA)
RMM Lab (Rama Mwenesi Musalia, MSE, PhD)
Trust, Innovation, and Ethics Research for Responsible AI - TIERRA (Jodyn Platt, MPH, PhD)
Mobley-Pearson-Anderson Lab (Mark T Anderson, PhD | Melanie M Pearson, PhD)
Balunas Research Group (Marcy Balunas, PhD)
Barnett Lab (Katherine Barnett, PhD)
Carruthers Lab (Vernon B. Carruthers, PhD)
Collins Lab (Kathleen Collins, MD, PhD)
Grigova Lab (Irina Grigorova, PhD)
Huffnagle Lab (Gary Huffnagle, PhD)
Computational Immunobiology of Tuberculosis Lab (Denise Kirschner, PhD)
Lauring Lab (Adam Lauring, MD, PhD)
Martens Lab (Eric Martens, PhD)
Bethany B. Moore Lung Immunobiology Lab (Bethany B. Moore, PhD)
O'Meara Lab (Teresa O'Meara, PhD)
O'Riordan Lab (Mary O'Riordan, PhD)
Raghavan Lab (Malini Raghavan, PhD)
Sandkvist Lab (Maria Sandkvist, PhD)
Schloss Lab (Patrick Schloss, PhD)
Shenoy Lab of Barrier Immunobiology (Anukul Shenoy, PhD)
SoRelle Collaborative Epstein-Barr Virus Lab - scEBV Lab (Elliott SoRelle, PhD)
Spriggs Lab (Chelsey Spriggs, PhD)
Swanson Lab (Joel Swanson, PhD)
Telesnitsky Lab (Alice Telesnitsky, PhD)
Wang Lab (Yifan Wang, DVM, PhD)
Arvan Lab (Peter Arvan, MD, PhD)
Anumonwo Lab (Justus Anumonwo, PhD)
Borjigin Lab (Jimo Borjigin, PhD)
Carter-Su Lab (Christin Carter-Su, PhD)
Fort Lab (Patrice E Fort, PhD, MS)
Hammer Lab (Gary D Hammer, PhD)
Hepler Lab (Chelsea Hepler, PhD)
Skeletal Tissue Engineering Laboratory (Lisa Larkin, PhD)
Leiser Lab (Scott Leiser, PhD)
Lopatin Lab (Anatoli N Lopatin, PhD)
Lyssiotis Lab (Costas A Lyssiotis, PhD)
MacDougald Lab (Ormond MacDougald, PhD)
Michele Lab (Daniel E. Michele, PhD)
Moenter Lab (Suzanne Moenter, PhD)
Murphy Lab (Geoffrey Murphy, PhD)
Pletcher Lab (Scott Pletcher, PhD)
Rainey Lab (William Rainey, PhD)
Samuelson Lab (Linda C. Samuelson, PhD)
Savier Lab (Elise Savier, PhD)
Anand Team (Jessica Anand, PhD)
Birdsong Lab (William Birdsong, PhD)
Michigan Otolaryngology and Translational Oncology Laboratory - MiOTO (J. Chad Brenner, PhD)
Courtney Lab (Adam Courtney, PhD)
Ferrario Lab (Carrie Ferrario, PhD)
Greineder Lab (Colin Greineder, MD, PhD)
Hastings Lab (Michelle Hastings, PhD)
Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Core (Michelle Hastings, PhD)
Holinstat Lab (Michael Holinstat, PhD)
Jenkins Lab (Paul Jenkins, PhD)
D Jones Lab (David Jones, PhD)
Kennedy Group (Robert T. Kennedy, PhD)
Levitt Lab (Erica Levitt, PhD)
Lorberbaum Lab (David Lorberbaum, PhD)
Parent Lab (Carole Parent, PhD)
Lab Directory - Clinical
Neuromodulation Lab (Scott Lempka, PhD)
Levitt Lab (Erica Levitt, PhD)
Michigan Perioperative Pain Research - MPR Group (Chad Brummett, MD)
Angeles Lab (Christina V Angeles, MD)
Coulombe Lab (Pierre Coulombe, PhD)
Sex Discrepancy in Autoimmune Disease/Billi Lab (Allison Billi, MD, PhD)
Psoriasis Genomics and Pathophysiology Research Program (James T. Elder, MD, PhD)
Aging Skin and Photobiology of Skin (Gary J. Fisher, PhD)
Skin Immunology in Autoimmunity/Gudjonsson Lab (Johann E. Gudjonsson, MD, PhD)
Greineder Lab (Colin Greineder, MD, PhD)
Najarian Lab (Kayvan Najarian, PhD)
Diane M Harper Lab (Diane M. Harper, MD, MPH, MS)
James Lab (Tyler G. James, PhD, MCHES®)
Mahmoudi Lab (Elham Mahmoudi, PhD)
Quantitative Training, Research and Analysis Core - QTRAC (Ananda Sen, PhD)
Abdel-Latif Lab (Ahmed Abdel-Latif, MD, PhD)
Alumkal Lab (Joshi Alumkal, MD)
Anumonwo Lab (Justus Anumonwo, PhD)
Arvan Lab (Peter Arvan, MD, PhD)
Beamish Lab (Jeffrey "Jeff" Beamish, MD, PhD)
Cardiovascular Health Improvement Project (Marion A Hofmann Bowman, MD, PhD)
Brady Lab (Graham Brady, MD, PhD)
Brandt Research Group (Eric J. Brandt, MD MHS FACC FNLA)
Byrd Lab (J. Brian Byrd, MD, MS)
Camper Lab (Sally Camper, PhD)
Chun Lab (Tae-Hwa Chun, MD, PhD)
Dickson Lab (Robert Dickson, MD)
Espinoza-Fonseca Group (L. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca, PhD)
Ganesh Lab (Santhi Ganesh, MD)
Ginsburg Lab (David Ginsburg, MD)
Hammer Lab (Gary D Hammer, PhD)
Hayes Lab (Daniel F Hayes, MD, FASCO, FACP
Higgins IBD Research Group (Peter D.R. Higgins, MD, PhD, MSc)
Huffnagle Lab (Gary Huffnagle, PhD)
Inoki Lab (Ken Inoki, MD, PhD)
D Jones Lab (David Jones, PhD)
Kahlenberg Lab (J Michelle Kahlenberg, MD, PhD)
Khoriarty Lab (Rami Khoriaty, MD)
Antiphospholipid Syndrome Research Labs (Jason S. Knight, MD, PhD | Yu (Ray) Zuo, MD, MSCS)
Kozik Lab (Ariangela Kozik, PhD)
Michigan Kidney Translational Medicine Center - MiKTMC (Matthias Kretzler, MD)
Lauring Lab (Adam Lauring, M.D., PhD)
Lawrence Lab (Daniel A. Lawrence, PhD)
Leiser Lab (Scott Leiser, PhD)
Mi Asthma Research (Njira Lugogo, MD)
Lyssiotis Lab (Costas A Lyssiotis, PhD)
MacDougald Lab (Ormond MacDougald, PhD)
Markovitz Research Group (David M. Markovitz, MD)
Michele Lab (Daniel E. Michele, PhD)
Bethany B. Moore Lung Immunobiology Lab (Bethany B. Moore, PhD)
Morrissey Lab (Jim Morrissey, PhD)
Pennathur Lab (Subramaniam Pennathur, MD)
Razumilava Lab (Nataliya Razumilava, MD)
Schuler Group (Charles Schuler, MD)
Shenoy Lab of Barrier Immunobiology (Anukul Shenoy, PhD)
Soleimanpour Lab (Scott Soleimanpour, MD)
Speliotes Lab (Elizabeth K Speliotes, MD, PhD, MPH)
Spence Lab (Jason R. Spence, PhD)
Stidham Lab (Ryan Stidham, MD, MSc)
Translational Tissue Modeling Laboratory (Jason R. Spence, PhD)
Tai Lab (Andrew W. Tai, M.D., PhD)
Tewari Lab (Muneesh Tewari, PhD, MD)
Turcu Lab (Adina Florina Turcu, MD, MS)
Wang Lab (Thomas D. Wang, MD, PhD)
Weiss Lab (Stephen J. Weiss, MD)
Willer Lab (Cristen Willer, PhD)
Woods Lab (Robert Woods, MD, PhD)
Antonellis Lab (Anthony Antonellis, PhD)
Barmada Lab (Sami Barmada, MD, PhD)
FNiCoMo Lab (Nicolaas Bohnen, MD, PhD)
Costa Lab (Maria do Carmo Pereira da Costa, PhD)
De Lott Research Group (Lindsey B. De Lott, MD, MS)
Leventhal Lab (Daniel Leventhal, PhD, MD)
Mattis Lab (Joanna H. Mattis, M.D., PhD)
McLoughlin Lab (Hayley McLoughlin, PhD)
Meisler Lab (Miriam Meisler, PhD)
Restorative Neuroengineering Group (Parag Patil, PhD, MD)
Paulson Lab (Henry Paulson, MD, PhD)
Neural Engineering in Epilepsy Lab (William Stacey, MD, PhD)
Tidball Lab (Andrew Tidball, PhD)
Brain Tumor Microenvironment Lab (Wajd N. Al-Holou, MD)
Borjigin Lab (Jimo Borjigin, PhD)
Craniofacial Lab (Steven R. Buchman, MD)
Translational Neuro-Oncology Laboratories (Maria G. Castro, PhD | Pedro Lowenstein, PhD)
Machine Learning in Neurosurgery Lab - MLiNS (Todd Hollon, MD)
Hammoud Lab (Sue Hammoud, PhD)
Diane M Harper Lab (Diane M. Harper, MD, MPH, MS)
Reproductive Infectious Disease Research Group (Okeoma Mmeje, MD, MPH)
Moenter Lab (Suzanne Moenter, PhD)
Mueller Lab (Jacob Mueller, PhD)
Smith Lab (Gary D. Smith, PhD)
De Lott Research Group (Lindsey B De Lott, MD, MS)
Ehrlich Research Group (Joshua R Ehrlich, MD, MPH)
Fahim Lab (Abigail T Fahim, MD, PhD)
Fort Lab (Patrice E Fort, PhD, MS)
Miller Lab (Jason M Miller, MD, PhD)
eHealth Research Lab (Paula A Newman-Casey, MD, MS)
Pearring Lab (Jillian N. Pearring, PhD)
Prasov Lab (Lev Prasov, MD, PhD)
Rajesh Rao Lab (Rajesh Rao, MD)
Savier Lab (Elise Savier, PhD)
BioElectronic Vision Lab (James Weiland, PhD)
Woodward Lab (Maria A Woodward, MD, MS)
Biomedical Imaging and Biomechanics Lab (Guan "Gary" Xu, PhD)
Alford Lab (Andrea Alford, PhD)
Hankenson Lab (Kurt Hankenson, DVM, MS, PhD)
Orthopaedic Research Laboratories (Kurt Hankenson, DVM, MS, PhD)
Lab for Optimization and Computation in Orthopaedic Surgery - LOCOS (Richard Hughes, PhD)
Shoulder Study Research Group (Nitin Jain, MD)
Jepsen Lab (Karl J. Jepsen, PhD)
Killian Abraham Lab (Megan Killian, PhD)
Lang Lab (Annemarie Lang, PhD)
Maerz Lab (Tristan Maerz, PhD)
Michigan Performance Research Lab (Ronald Zernicke, PhD, DSc)
Altschuler Lab (Richard A. Altschuler, PhD)
Apostolides Lab (Pierre Apostolides, PhD)
Buchakjian Lab (Marisa Buchakjian, MD, PhD, FACS)
Michigan Otolaryngology and Translational Oncology Laboratory - MiOTO (J. Chad Brenner, PhD)
Brenner Lab (Michael J. Brenner, MD, FACS)
Corfas Lab (Gabriel Corfas, PhD)
Duncan Lab (R. Keith Duncan, PhD)
McCaslin Lab (Devin McCaslin, PhD)
Heft Neal Lab (Molly E Heft Neal, MD)
Raphael Lab (Rehoash Raphael, PhD)
Keller Lab (Evan T. Keller, DVM, PhD, MPVM)
Proteomics & Integrative Bioinformatics Lab (Alexey Nesvizhskii, PhD)
Pitchiaya Lab (Sethu Pitchiaya, PhD)
Ginsburg Lab (David Ginsburg, MD)
Chromatin Neurobiology Lab (Shigeki Iwase, PhD)
Martin Lab (Donna Martin, MD, PhD)
Prensner Lab (John Prensner, MD, PhD)
Briceño Lab (Emily M Briceño, PhD)
Direct Brain Interface Lab (Jane E Huggins, PhD)
Musculoskeletal Study Research (Nitin Jain, MD | Ravi Prakash, PhD | Chan Gao, MD)
Kaufman Lab (Jacqueline Kaufman, PhD)
NeuRRo Lab (Chandramouli Krishnan, PhD)
Judicious Early Detection of Impending Imbalance Lab - JEDII (James K. Richardson, MD)
Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory (J. Todd Arnedt, PhD | Helen Burgess, PhD)
Athey Lab (Brian D Athey, PhD)
Suicide Prevention, Treatment, & Research Lab - STaR (Lindsay A Bornheimer, PhD, LMSW)
Speech Neurophysiology Lab (Soo-Eun Chang, PhD, CCC-SLP)
Community-engaged Health Optimization for Improved Care & Equity - CHOICE Lab (Lara Coughlin, PhD)
Mobile Health & Adaptive Interventions Lab - mHAIL (Ewa K Czyz, PhD | Adam G. Horwitz, PhD)
Duval Lab (Elizabeth Duval, PhD)
Flagel Lab (Shelly Flagel, PhD)
Suicide Prevention Research in the Community Lab - SPRCL (Cynthia Ewell Foster, PhD)
Michigan Mindfulness Lab (David Fresco, PhD)
Jenkins Lab (Paul Jenkins, PhD)
Mood Disorders Lab (Sagar Parikh, MD)
Beliefs and Messages Lab (Hans Schroder, PhD)
Emotion & Temporal Dynamics Lab - EmoTe (Sarah H Sperry, PhD)
Sripada Lab (Chandra Sripada, MD, PhD)
Balter Lab (James Balter, PhD)
Ljungman Lab (Mats E Ljungman, PhD)
Morgan Lab (Meredith Morgan, PhD)
Systems Imaging & Bioinformatics Lab (Arvind Rao, PhD)
Rehmtulla Lab (Alnawaz Rehemtulla, PhD)
FNiCoMo Lab (Nicolaas Bohnen, MD, PhD
CAD-AI Lab (Heang-Ping Chan, PhD)
Radiology 3T Research MRI Lab (Thomas Chenevert, PhD | Dariya Malyarenko, PhD)
Ultrasound Lab - Fabiola (Mario Fabiilli, PhD)
S Galban Lab (Stefanie Galban, PhD)
Humphries Lab (Brock Humphries, PhD)
Functional MRI Lab (John Jonides, PhD | Douglas C. Noll, PhD)
Ultrasound Lab - Kripfgans (Oliver Kripfgans, PhD)
Angeles Lab (Christina V Angeles, MD)
Craniofacial Lab (Steven R. Buchman, MD)
Neuromuscular Lab (Paul S. Cederna, MD | Stephen Kemp, PhD | Theodore A. Kung, MD)
Davis Lab (Frank M. Davis, MD)
Computational Vascular Biomechanics Lab (C. Alberto Figueroa, PhD)
Frankel Lab (Timothy L. Frankel, MD)
S Galban Lab (Stefanie Galban, PhD)
Gallagher Lab (Katherine A. Gallagher, MD)
Henke Lab (Peter K. Henke, MD, FACS, FAHA)
Holinstat Lab (Michael Holinstat, Ph.D.)
Thoracic Surgery Cancer Biology Lab (Laura A. Kresty, PhD, MS)
Lubman Lab (David M. Lubman, PhD)
Myers Lab (Daniel D. Myers, DVM, MPH, DACLAM)
Newman Lab (Erika A. Newman, MD)
O'Rourke Lab (Robert W. O'Rourke, MD)
Pasca di Magliano Lab (Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD)
Extracorporeal Life Support - ECLS Lab (Alvaro Rojas-Pena, MD)
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology (Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD)
Hammoud Lab (Sue Hammoud, PhD)
Keller Lab (Evan T. Keller, DVM, PhD, MPVM)
Morgan Lab (Todd Matthew Morgan, MD)
Mueller Lab (Jacob Mueller, PhD)
Palapattu Lab (Ganesh Palapattu, MD, FACS, FRCS)
Pitchiaya Lab (Sethu Pitchiaya, PhD)
Endourology Translational Research Lab (William Woodruff Roberts, MD)
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