Lab Members

Geoffrey Hill, MD, FRACP, FRCPA

Principal Investigator
  • Full Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 
  • Senior Vice President/Officer, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division
  • Director of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation 
  • Leonard and Norma Klorfine Endowed Chair for Clinical Research
  • Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Washington

Learn more about Dr. Hill


Motoko Koyama, MD, PhD

Senior Staff Scientist

Albert Yeh, MD

Research Associate

Kathleen Ensbey

Research Lab Manager
Francoise Haeseleer

Francoise Haeseleer, PhD

Senior Staff Scientist
Ethan Nelson

Ethan Nelson

Research Technician

Tomoko Sekiguchi

Research Technician
Julie Boiko

Julie Boiko, MD, PhD

Research Associate

Nicole Nemychenkov

Research Technician
Rachael Adams

Rachael Adams

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Sam Legg

Sam Legg

Research Technician
Melissa Comstock

Melissa Comstock

Research Project Manager II

Tanvi Joshi

Research Technician
Fred Hutch Cancer Center campus

Huanle Gong

Post Doctural Research Fellow
Fred Hutch Cancer Center campus

Lauren Meyer

NE AGCME Fellow
Fred Hutch Cancer Center campus

Mariapia Degli-Esposti

NE Affiliate Investigator
Fred Hutch Cancer Center campus

Andrew Spencer

NE Affiliate Investigator
Fred Hutch Cancer Center campus

Nick Bingham

NE Affiliate Investigator

Saharsh Vuppala

Student Intern

Lab Alumni

  • Kate Gartlan - Senior Staff Scientist, April 2018 through February 2019
  • Nicholas Greene - Research Technician, September 2018 through October 2020
  • Luke Samson - Research Technician, July 2018 through May 2020
  • Takayuki Inouye - Postdoc Intern, November 2018 through Summer 2019
  • Yewei Wang - Post-doctoral Research Scholar, October 2019 through June 2021
  • Gabriela Campoy - Research Technician, January 2021 through July 2022
  • Chrissy Weber-Schmidt - Research Technician, 2020 through June 2023
  • Shuichiro Takahashi, MD, PhD  - Post-doctoral Research Fellow, September 2020 - February 2024
  • Ping Zhang - Senior Staff Scientist, February 2020 - April 2024
  • Erden Atilla - Post Doctoral Research Fellow, August 2022 - August 2024
  • Simone Minnie, PhD - Post Doctoral Research Fellow, July 2019 - March 2025
  • Justina Lyons - Research Technician, June 2024 - July 2025
  • Rui Xu - NE Graduate Student, Summer 2025