Our Leadership

Marsha Treadwell, PhD

Professor in Residence
Pediatrics

I am a Professor In Residence in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology in the UCSF School of Medicine. I serve as the Co-Chair for the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Council for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. I am the Co-Director of the UCSF Sickle Cell Center of Excellence and I am PI for the Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium in Northern California. I also serve as Regional Director for the Pacific Sickle Cell Regional Collaborative.

Elliott Vichinsky, MD

Professor In Residence
Pediatrics

SUMMARY OF INTERESTS:

Mark Walters, MD

Professor In Residence
Pediatrics

The over-arching goal of my research career has been to develop and expand curative therapies for hemoglobin disorders in particular and non-malignant hematopoietic disorders more broadly. I have focused on genome editing approaches most recently, which rely upon modification of autologous hematopoietic cells to elicit a curative effect. In collaboration with colleagues at UC Berkeley, BCHO and UCLA, we are pursuing genomic editing of the sickle mutation in hematopoietic stem cells using the CRSPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein system.