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Peter Fecci, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Professor of Neurosurgery Director for the Duke Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Peter Fecci, MD PhD, is currently a Professor of Neurosurgery, Pathology, and Immunology at Duke University, where he also serves as the Director for the Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis, as well as for the Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program (BTIP). Dr. Fecci earned his MD PhD at Duke in 2007, before pursuing his neurosurgical training at MGH. While in Boston, he continued his post-doctoral research training at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Fecci returned to Duke in 2014 to join the neurosurgical faculty. He was a recipient of the Sontag Distinguished Scientist Award in 2015 and heads an R01- and Brain SPORE project-funded laboratory that focuses on integrating strategies for reversing cancer-induced T cell dysfunction with current immune-based platforms. His recent work on GBM-induced T cell exhaustion and sequestration has produced high profile publications in such journals as Nature Medicine and Clinical Cancer Research. For his research contributions, hee was a 2021 inductee into the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Clinically, as a neurosurgeon, he focuses on intrinsic brain tumors (gliomas, metastases) and has likewise built one of the country’s largest centers for Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy as a minimally invasive option for brain tumors.

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