
Brandon Hadland, MD, PhD
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.

Gary Zhao, PhD



Jorge Garcia


Soyeon Hwangbo



Mark Mendoza

Juliane Mercoli


Timothy Onisor



Jiayi Yuan
Lab Alumni

Tessa Dignum, MD
Current position: Resident Physician, Dermatology, University of Washington

Adam Heck, PhD
Current position: Scientist, Tune Therapeutics, Seattle, WA

Takashi Ishida, MD, PhD
Current position: Senior Scientist, Astellas Pharma, Tokyo, Japan

Cyd Nourigat McKay
Current position: retired

Nicholas Soliz
Current position: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Graduate Student, Business/Bioengineering, Washington, DC

Barbara Varnum-Finney, PhD
Current position: Retired

Olivia Waltner
Current position: Graduate Student, Genome Sciences, University of Washington