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Melanie Hayden Gephart is a neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of brain tumors, including both malignant and benign tumors, gliomas, brain metastases, meningiomas, and schwannomas. She is actively involved in the Stanford Brain Tumor Center and the Stanford Brain Metastasis Consortium, focusing on improving the understanding and treatment of brain tumors through collaborative efforts with physicians and scientists. Her laboratory research aims to uncover the mechanisms driving tumorigenesis and disease progression in malignant brain tumors. Dr. Gephart's work studies how rare cancer cell populations survive and migrate within the brain, often inadvertently supported by native brain cells. She is also developing novel cerebrospinal fluid-based biomarkers to track brain cancer treatment responses, relapses, and neurotoxicity. Her research is heavily supported by generously donated patient samples, emphasizing a bedside-to-bench-to-bedside model which fosters clinical trials and new treatment development techniques for brain cancer.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Director of the Stanford Brain Tumor Center and active researcher in brain tumor mechanisms and treatment.
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