Neurosurgery Researchers and Staff

Nathalie Agar, PhD

Focus: Molecular diagnosis and prognosis for clinical and surgical applications

Omar Arnaout, MD

Fengfeng Bei, PhD

Focus: Re-wiring of neural circuits

Wenya Linda Bi, MD, PhD

Focus: Translational biology of skull base tumors by integrating genomic, immunology, advanced imaging, and computational tools to improve patient and surgical outcomes

E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD

Focus: Novel experimental therapies for malignant brain tumors

Choi-Fong Cho, PhD

Focus: Drug delivery and the blood brain barrier in brain tumors

Elizabeth Claus, MD, PhD

Focus: Cancer epidemiology and statistical genetics

Rose Du, MD, PhD

Focus: Role of genetics in stroke and cerebrovascular diseases

Alexandra Golby, MD

Focus: Structural and functional MRI and brain electrophysiology

William Gormley, MD, MPH, MBA

Focus: To harness the administrative, clinical, research and financial data streams combined with detailed outcomes tracking to inform best practices and protocols for neurosurgery.

Yi Lu, MD, PhD

Focus: Functional recovery after spinal cord injury

Marco Mineo, PhD

Focus: Immunotherapy and non-coding RNAs in brain tumors

Hiroshi Nakashima, PhD

Focus: Oncolytic viruses and immunotherapy in glioblastoma

Pier Paolo Peruzzi, MD, PhD

Focus: The biology of small non-coding RNAs and the pioneering of their genetic engineering for a cure against brain cancer.

John Rolston, MD, PhD

Focus: Applying neural engineering and neuromodulation to understand the brain and treat neurological and psychiatric diseases

Khalid Shah, PhD, MS

Focus: Develop and test novel targeted stem cell based therapies for cancer

Timothy R. Smith, MD, PhD, MPH

Yanmei Tie, PhD

Focus: Developing neuroimaging approaches for presurgical brain mapping and investigation of brain function alterations in neurological conditions.

Xin Wang, PhD

Focus: Identification of candidate therapeutics for neurodegenerative disorders