Team

Following completion of an MD/PhD degree in Molecular Cell Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Brandon arrived in Seattle to pursue Pediatric Residency at Seattle Children’s Hospital in 2006. He entered the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship program at the Fred Hutch/University of Washington in 2009, investigating hematopoietic stem cell biology under the mentorship of Irv Bernstein. Building on his graduate studies identifying the role of Notch signaling in developmental hematopoiesis, his research has focused on elucidating the signaling mechanisms regulating serial waves of embryonic hematopoiesis giving rise to unique lineages of blood and immune cells and the first hematopoietic stem cells.

Emojis: 🤔❓🤝

Fun fact: My curiosity and love of science trace back to childhood adventures on the outskirts of Las Vegas, Nevada, where I spent countless days roaming the Nevada desert with my two younger brothers, collecting desert insects—tarantulas and scorpions among them—and tracking reptiles, from lizards and tortoises to the occasional rattlesnake.

Gary’s hematology research is driven by statistical modeling and machine learning of image and genetic data at single-cell resolution. He leads a team of computational biologists who strive to faithfully describe the development and pathogenesis of the blood system with mathematical formulas, allowing them to distill the data ocean into an ingestible capsule and empowering them to explore the unknown for translational discoveries.

Emojis: 💻🏔️🎥

Fun fact: My Australian Sheperd's name “Platt” comes from Platypus. 

Website: https://garyhzhao.github.io/