Lab Members

Faculty

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Ashley McDonough, Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Career Development (KL2) Award winner 2021 – 2024
Type I interferon Signaling in CNS-infiltrating macrophages following ischemia/reperfusion

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Research Scientists

• Brendan Schweitzer
• Mitzi Adler-Wachter

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

• Shruti Komethagan
• Daphne Chao

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Visiting Scientists

• Sibylle Hodecker, MD (2019-2022)
• Mansur Kutlabaev, MD (2006-2007) – Fulbright Scholar

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UW Collaborators

Current

• Andy Shih
  • Principal investigator at Seattle Children’s Research Institute’s Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine 
  • Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Bioengineering 
  • University of Washington School of Medicine

• Suman Jayadev
  • Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• J. Lee Nelson
  • Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutch, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• C. Michael Crowder
  • Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Gregory J. del Zoppo
  • Professor, Division of Hematology, Adjunct Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Donghoon Lee
  • Research Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Garth Terry
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Bruce R. Ransom
  • Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Margaret A. Hamner
  • Affiliate Acting Instructor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Kyra J. Becker
  • Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Past

• Thomas Moeller
  • Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington

• Sean P. Murphy
  • Affiliate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington School of Medicine

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Post-doctoral Fellow Alumni

• Ashley McDonough
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
  • National Research Service Award (NRSA) F32 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Award Recipient 2016-2019 from NIH/NINDS
  • Interferon signaling in microglia mediates neuroprotection in stroke
• Shahani Noor
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  • 2013 – 2014  Ischemic Preconditioning, microglia and type 1 interferon signaling

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UW Neuroscience Graduate Student Alumni

• Cara Nielson
  • 2021 Lab rotation – Effect of ischemic preconditioning and microglial depletion on the nodes of Ranvier in white matter

• German Rojas
  • 2019 Lab rotation – Effects of CSF1R antagonist treatment on microglia depletion in white matter 

• Lauren Hood
  • 2014 Lab rotation – Role of CD24 and Siglec-G on neuroinflammatory response to stroke 

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UW Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Alumni

• Marina Han
  • 2019 Lab rotation – Effects of CX3CR1 antagonism on post stroke neuroinflammatory response

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UW Medical Student Alumni

• Ravneet Ranu
  • 2023 Lab rotation – Scholarship of Discovery III program project:  Effect of ischemic preconditioning and microglial depletion on nodes of Ranvier 

• Heather Chung*
  • 2023 Lab rotation – Scholarship of Discovery III program project:  Development and optimization of neurobehavioral and cognitive testing paradigms to be used for studies with novel transgenic mouse model of vascular cognitive impairment 

• Davin Gong*
  • 2018 Lab rotation – CSF1R antagonism abolishes ischemic preconditioning mediated axonal protection in white matter

• Ryan Dodge*
  • 2015 Lab rotation – Ischemic preconditioning induced effects on microglial proliferation and gene expression

• Josiah Hanson*
  • 2014 Lab rotation – Cellular mechanisms of IgG and IgM dependent phagocytosis in microglia.

*Abstracts selected for Western State Student and Resident Medical Research Forum in Carmel, CA

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UW Undergraduate Research Assistant Alumni

• Shreya Sumanth
• Emily Verran
• Amy Rude
  • 2025 UW Dean’s Medal Award Nominee
• Amy Guo
• Monique Samodien
• Haneul Ryou
  • 2021 UW Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Scholar
• Nikhil Patel
• Emma Lascar
• Lisa Young
• Ravneet Ranu
• Rachel Arnold
  • 2019 UW Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Scholar
• Graham Stoddard
• Vicki Wahlstrom
• Jasmine Shen
• Victoria Wahlstrom
• Michael Ulate
• Arianna Sayyadi
• Stephanie Mizuno
• Chloe Lee
  • 2015 UW Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Scholar
  • 2016 Levinson Emerging Scholar
• Dallas Kramer
• Alexa Erdogan
• Hyoeun Kim
• Zukhra Siddikova
• Ryan Dodge
• Erwin Odongo
• Dorender Dankwa
  • 2013 UW Mary Gates Scholar
  • 2013 UW Intitiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) Undergraduate Research Scholarship
• Thu Le
• Michael Iorga
• Khloe Frank
• Katie Ho
  • 2013 UW Mary Gates Scholar
• James Strosnider
• Cheryl Sung
• Sam Sussman
• Hunter Phillips
  • 2012 UW Mary Gates Scholar
• Heather Pemberton
• Huy Hoang
• Russell Ettinger
• Matthew Zhang