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Sean Lawler, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University. He leads the Brain Cancer Therapy Lab and serves as co-leader of the CNS Cancer Translational Disease Research Group at the Legorreta Cancer Center. Additionally, he is the co-Director of the Therapeutic Sciences Graduate Program at Brown University. Dr. Lawler's research focuses on investigating therapeutic approaches for brain cancer, utilizing preclinical models and analyzing patient tumors. His major research interests include drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier for cancer treatment, harnessing innate immune mechanisms for effective immunotherapy application in brain cancer, and understanding the effects of the cytomegalovirus on malignant brain tumor growth, specifically glioblastoma. His work aims to design new and effective therapeutic strategies for these extremely challenging diseases.
Department: Department of Economics