Scientific Advisors

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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