Imagine a war zone where the entire army has shown up to fight the enemy but for some reason won't shoot. For this war to be won, whatever is keeping the soldiers from fighting needs to be found and stopped. This is the situation researchers have recently discovered in their fight against malignant gliomas...

Dr. Jeffrey Bruce, Director of the Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory and Co-Director of the Brain Tumor Center provided the Farber Award introductions at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting this month.  This was held at the meeting of the AANS/CNS section on Tumors.

Dr. Guy M. McKhann from the Epilepsy Center co-directed a course on Brain Mapping techniques at the recent American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting.  The clinic focused on ways to map the eloquent cortex in order to remove tumors and treat epilepsy in the safest way...

[video src="http://d2fexuft304e76.cloudfront.net/Retrosig-HD" format="m4v,flv" poster="/wp-content/2010/04/Retrosig.jpg" options="autoplay" id="Retrosig-HD"] The patient is a 34 year-old man who presents with two months of progressive right-sided hearing loss, mild right-sided facial weakness,...

Dr. Peter Canoll, a long time collaborator with the Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory has just received a $1.8 million grant  for his research "The Role of White Matter Progenitors in Glioma Formation and Progression."  This grant comes from the National Institute of Neurological Disorters and...

Despite the lack of evidence so far, the suggestion that cell phone use is in some way linked to the development of brain tumors still abounds, prompting study after study. Newly published research out of Scandinavia, where cell phone use is particularly high, shows that there is still no link....

Education Research Fellow in Neuro-oncology at The Gabriele Bartoli Brain Tumor Laboratory, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center; The University of Chicago Brain Tumor Center, Neuro-oncology Research Fellowship 2008; National Autonomous University of Mexico Faculty...

Education Weill Medical College of Cornell University, M.D. 2006 Philosophy, Princeton University, B.A. 1999 Honors/Awards George G. Reader Prize in Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2006 Alpha Omega Alpha, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 2006 Russek...

Education Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D. 2006 Chemistry, Cum Laude, Harvard College, B.A. 2001 Honors/Awards American Neurological Association Medical Student Summer Research Award, 2003 American Academy of Neurology Summer Scholarship, 2003 Summer Scholarship...