Phone: 800-886-2282 | E-mail: info@abta.org

The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Scientific Advisory Council makes research funding recommendations to the ABTA Board of Directors. Council members also advise ABTA as to scientific trends and new areas of research interest. All members of this prestigious council volunteer their services.  

Kenneth D. Aldape, MD Professor of Pathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine UTMD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas Michael L. J. Apuzzo, MD Professor, Todd-Wells Professorship in Neurosurgery University of Southern California Los Angeles, California Mitchel S. Berger, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California Steven Brem, MD Chair, Department of Neuro-Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD, FACS Director, Bartoli Brain Tumor Research Laboratory Co-Director, Brain Tumor Center Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York, New York Jan C. Buckner, MD Professor of Oncology Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota Peter C. Burger, MD Professor of Pathology, Neurosurgery, Oncology Johns Hopkins University Hospital Baltimore, Maryland Webster K. Cavenee, PhD Professor of Medicine, Cancer Genes and Genome Program Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD Professor of Neurosurgery Chairman, Department of Neurosugery Dardinger Family Endowed Chair in Oncological Neurosurgery James Cancer Center & Solove Research Institute Ohio State University Medical Center Columbus, Ohio Henry S. Friedman, MD James B. Powell, Jr., Professor of Neuro-Oncology Director, The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina G. Yancey Gillespie, PhD Professor of Surgery, Microbiology, Cell Biology University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama William Hahn, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Director, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, Massachusetts Fred H. Hochberg, MD Associate Professor, Department of Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Eric C. Holland, MD, PhD Vice Chair, Translational Research, Department of Neurosurgery Director, Brain Tumor Center Emily Tow Jackson Chair in Oncology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, New York Mark A. Israel, MD Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center Professor of Pediatrics & Genetics Norris Cotton Cancer Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, New Hampshire Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neurosciences Director, Neuro-oncology University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California Lois A. Lampson, PhD Associate Professor of Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts John Laterra, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Oncology Director, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology Kennedy Krieger Research Institute Baltimore, Maryland Edward R. Laws, Jr., MD Director Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Victor A. Levin, MD Attending Physician Permanente Medical Group Redwood City, California Minesh P. Mehta, MD Professor, Human Oncology Chair, Brain Tumor Committee and Chair,Human Oncology University of Wisconsin Medical School Madison, Wisconsin Tom Mikkelsen, MD Co-Director, Hermelin Brain Center Hermelin Brain Tumor Center Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Michigan Sarah J. Nelson, PhD Margaret Hart Surbeck Distinguished Professor, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Co-Chair, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Director, Center for Non-Invasive Imaging and Metabolomics and the Surbeck Laboratory of Advanced Imaging University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California Luis Parada, PhD Professor and Chairman, Dept of Developmental Biology Director, Kent Waldrep Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas Corey Raffel, MD, PhD Professor of Neurological Surgery Vice Chair of Neurological Surgery Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, Ohio Jeremy Rich, MD Chairman, Dept of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Professor, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio Martine Roussel, PhD Professor of Molecular Sciences and Tumor Cell Biology Professor, Dept of Molecular Sciences Co-chair Signal Transduction Program St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Memphis, Tennessee Harald Sontheimer, PhD Professor of Neurobiology, Cell Biology, Physiology & Biophysics Director, Cellular & Molecular Biology Graduate Program Director, UAB Center for Glial Biology in Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama Michael Taylor, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Canada Stephen J. Tapscott, MD, PhD Professor of Neurology Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, Washington Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD Associate Professor, Departments of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology and Neurobiology Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina W. K. Alfred Yung, MD Professor, Neuro-Oncology Chairman, Department of Neuro-Oncology Margaret and Ben Love Chair in Clinical Cancer Research UTMD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas

current as of January, 2010

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American Brain Tumor Association
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Des Plaines, IL 60018

Phone: 847-827-9910
Fax: 847-827-9918
Toll-free Phone: 800-886-2282
E-mail: info@abta.org