Lab Members

Peter S. Nelson, M.D.

Peter S. Nelson, M.D.

Professor, Divisions of Human Biology, Clinical Research and Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutch
Director, Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute, Fred Hutch
Director, Prostate Cancer Research, Fred Hutch
Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute Endowed Chair, Fred Hutch
Professor, Dept. of Medicine (Medical Oncology), UW and Adjunct, Depts. of Genome Sciences, Urology, and Pathology, UW
Faculty Profile
Birthplace: Chapel Hill, NC
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Alexander Von Humboldt and Linus Pauling
Favorite Book: The Brothers Karamazov
Favorite Movie: Rear Window
In my time off I enjoy: Time off?? Cycling, hiking, fixing my VW van…. 

 

Lab Staff

Armand Bankhead

Armand Bankhead

Title: Senior Staff Scientist

Hometown: Cambridge, ID
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Gregor Mendel
Paper that greatly impacted you: Todd Golub’s “Molecular classification of cancer: class discovery and class prediction by gene expression monitoring“
In my time off I enjoy: being outside, nature, reading, family

Emery Boehnke

Emery Boehnke

Title: Research Technician

Hometown:  Kennewick, WA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Steve Mould
Favorite book: His Dark Materials series
Favorite movie: Arrival                                                                                                       
In my time off I enjoy:  Baking, homebrewing, listening to music, travel

Ilsa Coleman, MS

Ilsa Coleman, MS

Title: Research Scientist
Hometown: Fullerton, CA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: My father, Dr. Charles C. Lambert
Paper that greatly impacted you: Most recently, the group of 27 papers making up the Pan-Cancer Atlas, published April 2018
In my time off I enjoy: running, hiking, live music, and spending time with family and friends

Emily Distler, Ph.D.

Emily Distler, Ph.D.

Title: Research Technician

Birthplace: Forest Lake, Minnesota
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Alan Turing
Favorite Book: Lord of the Rings
Favorite Movie: Memento
Paper that greatly impacted you: Kubica 2021 - MR1 Overexpression Correlates with Poor Clinical Prognosis in Glioma Patients
In my time off I enjoy: Snowboarding, weightlifting, coaching debate, volleyball, hiking, reading (currently on book three of Game of Thrones)
 

Ruth Dumpit

Ruth Dumpit

Title: Lab Manager
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Francis Collins
In my time off I enjoy: Gardening, travel, and spending time with family and friends.


Brian Hanratty

Brian Hanratty

Title: Bioinformatics Analyst

Hometown:  Fort Lauderdale, FL
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Carl Sagan
Paper that greatly impacted you: The clonal evolution of tumor cell populations.
In my time off I enjoy: World travel, breweries, nature, tech, retro video games.

Jared Lucas, Ph.D.

Jared Lucas, Ph.D.

Title: Staff Scientist

Hometown: Syracuse, New York
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Chawnshang Chang
Paper that greatly impacted you: Barnett C. E. (1906). VII. The Female Prostate: An Anatomico-Surgical Study. Annals of surgery, 44(4), 576–581.
Favorite Book: The Assassination Bureau, Ltd By Jack London
In my time off I enjoy: IU, K-Dramas, Costco, Crying

Elnaz Mahmoudabadi, Ph.D.

Elnaz Mahmoudabadi, Ph.D.

Title: Lab Technician

Hometown: Mashhad, Iran
Favorite book: The Alchemist
Favorite movie: Memoirs of a Geisha
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Sigmund Freud
Paper that greatly impacted you: The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics
In my time off I enjoy: Watching movies, photography, cooking, running, discovering new dishes
 

Jessica Maruwan

Jessica Maruwan

Title: Research Technician

Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Nikola Tesla
Favorite Book: Bible
Favorite Movie: Coraline
Paper that greatly impacted you: Prostate Cancer Review: Genetics, Diagnosis, Treatment Options and Alternative Approaches
In my time off I enjoy: Cooking, baking, watching movies, K-pop dance


Postdoctoral Fellows

Tarana Arman, Ph.D.

Tarana Arman, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Jorhat, Assam, India
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner:
Gregor Johann Mendel and Frederick Sanger
Paper that greatly impacted you:
DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors by F. Sanger, S. Nicklen and A.R. Coulson published in 1977.

In my time off I enjoy: Gardening on a sunny day, reading on a rainy day and hiking on a breezy day.

Rabeya Bilkis, Ph.D.

Rabeya Bilkis, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, George Church
Paper that greatly impacted you: Papers contributing to the evolution of CRISPR/Cas technology as a powerful tool for human genome editing. Originally an embedded bacterial and archaeal defense mechanism, CRISPR is now crafted for gene editing, knockout, inhibition and activation – truly amazing!
In my time off I enjoy: hiking, playing badminton, spending time with family and friends

Arnab Bose, Ph.D.

Arnab Bose, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Kolkata, India
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: John Michael Bishop, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Sidney Farber
Paper that greatly impacted you: The first report on the generation of iPSCs from Dr. Shinya Yamanaka's group. I find it as a perfect balance of raw intellect and brute force-driven science
In my time off I enjoy: Web surfing, travelling, singing and reading books

Tony LH Chu, Ph.D.

Tony LH Chu, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: E. O. Wilson and George Church
Paper that greatly impacted you: Fischer  KR, et al. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is not required for lung metastasis but contributes to chemoresistance. Nature 2015
In my time off I enjoy: playing basketball, hiking and watching movies

Sander B. Frank, Ph.D.

Sander B. Frank, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Johnstown, PA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Donald Coffey, who had a profound impact on the prostate cancer research field and, by all accounts, was a man who overflowed with wisdom
Paper that greatly impacted you: The dual reports on the sequencing of the human genome in 2001. It is hard to overstate how dramatically this discovery has affected nearly every aspect of modern research.
In my time off I enjoy: Exploring local coffee shops and breweries, listening to a range of assorted podcasts and keeping up on the latest computer tech and gadgets.

Wanting Han, Ph.D.

Wanting Han, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Birthplace: Wuhan, China
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Tu Youyou
Favorite Book: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Favorite Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
In my time off I enjoy: going to theater to see live shows (musicals, plays etc.), travel, watching movies, playing Nintendo games
 

Patrick Lee, Ph.D.

Patrick Lee, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Sidney Farber
Paper that greatly impacted you: The Hallmarks of Cancer
In my time off I enjoy: Exploring new restaurants, bread baking, pickleball
 

Dapei Li, M.D., Ph.D.

Dapei Li, M.D., Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown:  Olympia, WA
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner:  Thomas Edison
Paper that greatly impacted you:  the book “Being Mortal” by Dr. Atul Gawande
In my time off I enjoy:  Reading

 

Robert Patton, Ph.D.

Robert Patton, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: Richard Feynman
Paper that greatly impacted you: What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell by Erwin Schrödinger
In my time off I enjoy: Powerlifting, cooking, reading, and going to the movies!
 

Galina Semenova MD, Ph.D.

Galina Semenova MD, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Tambov, Russia
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: My former mentors – Jon Chernoff and Karen Knudsen. I’ll cook.
Paper that greatly impacted you: The Crick-Brenner experiment remains one of my favorites.
In my time off I enjoy: Social dancing, portrait photography, traveling and sightseeing, hiking of course!

 

Saurabh Verma, Ph.D.

Saurabh Verma, Ph.D.

Title: Post-Doctoral Fellow

Hometown: New Delhi, India
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner:  Satyendra Nath Bose, Robert Weinberg and C V Raman,
Paper that greatly impacted you:  Targeting the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition: The Case for Differentiation-Based Therapy.
In my time off I enjoy:  Yoga and Reading Novels

Redd Wang, Ph.D.

Redd Wang, Ph.D.

Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hometown: Changsha, China
Scientist (Dead or Alive) you would invite to dinner: My mentors in PhD study: Andrew Scharenberg, Fyodor Urnov, and Pavel Zrazhevskiy
Favorite Book: The Seventh Day by Hua Yu
Favorite Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Paper that greatly impacted you: Inheritable Silencing of Endogenous Genes by Hit-and-Run Targeted Epigenetic Editing.
In my time off I enjoy: Hiking, reading, listen to classical music, traveling, trying new sports, learning new languages, cheering for the Mariners.


Graduate Students


Administration

Jennifer Bell

Jennifer Bell

Title: Research Administration Manager I

Hometown: Seattle, WA

In my time off I enjoy:  Cooking, reading, spending time with family & friends, and working on projects around the house.

 

 

Tina Huang

Tina Huang

Title: Research Administrator III
Mail Stop: E2-112