Desmond A. Brown, MD, PhD

Head, Neurosurgical Oncology Unit; Assistant Clinical Investigator
Surgical National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Dr. Brown is the head of the Neurosurgical Oncology Unit and Assistant Clinical Investigator (ACI) in the Surgical Neurology Branch of the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He received a combined MD/PhD degree in 2014 from the combined Rutgers RWJ/Princeton University combined MD/PhD program. He then completed residency in neurological surgery with a fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at the Mayo Clinic in 2021. Clinically, his interest is complex resection of intra-axial brain lesions relying on a number of surgical adjuncts (awake resections, intraoperative speech and motor mapping, 5-ALA fluorescence guided resections).

Dr. Brown is fascinated by the primary cilium as a site of integration of key signaling pathways important in both development and disease. Primary cilia are microtubule-based organelles that project from the cell surface in a dynamic fashion and receive and process molecular and mechanical signaling cues. he role of the primary cilium in cancer molecular biology remains critically underexplored and this is an area Dr. Brown continues to investigate with the goal of translating novel therapies to the clinic.

Presentation(s):

• (SS#I) NIH, Academia and Patient Advocate Collaboration: The Path Forward in Brain Tumors

  Saturday, April 22, 2023
  2:04pm – 2:13pm PST

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose