Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis Invited Speaker Series

The Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis and the Duke Department of Neurosurgery host guest speaker Melanie Hayden Gephart, MD.

Hayden Gephart is a brain tumor neurosurgeon, treating patients with malignant and benign tumors, including gliomas, brain metastases, meningiomas, and schwannomas. She directs the Stanford Brain Tumor Center and the Stanford Brain Metastasis Consortium, collaborative unions of physicians and scientists looking to improve the understanding and treatment of brain tumors. Her laboratory seeks greater understanding of the mechanisms driving tumorigenesis and disease progression in malignant brain tumors. They study how rare cancer cell populations survive and migrate in the brain, inadvertently supported by native brain cells. They develop novel cerebrospinal fluid-based biomarkers to track brain cancer treatment response, relapse, and neurotoxicity. Their bedside-to-bench-to-bedside research model builds on a foundation of generously donated patient samples, where they test mechanisms of brain cancer growth, develop novel pre-clinical models that reliably recapitulate the human disease, and facilitate clinical trials of new treatments for patients with brain cancer.

www.GephartLab.com
www.GBMseq.org
https://stan.md/BrainMets
@HaydenGephartMD