Strategy involves placing targets on deadly cancer’s cells, potentially making them vulnerable to immunotherapies By: Julia Evangelou Strait Even treated with the most advanced therapies, patients with glioblastoma — an aggressive brain cancer — typically survive less than two years after diagnosis. Efforts to treat this cancer with the latest immunotherapies have been unsuccessful, likely […]
Alexander H. Stegh, PhD, professor of neurosurgery, vice chair of research in the Department of Neurosurgery and research director of the Brain Tumor Center, was recently inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Election to AIMBE’s College of Fellows is limited to the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in […]
Dimitrios Mathios, MD, a brain tumor neurosurgeon from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named to the WashU Neurosurgery faculty as an assistant professor. His tenure begins July 2023. A native of Greece, Mathios obtained his medical degree from Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine. He […]