Subject Matter Tracks

The AYA track includes tumor biology, treatment, psychosocial and survivorship needs, and long-term medical needs of adolescent and young adult patients (age 15-39) with brain and spinal cord tumors.

Chairs:
Anita Mahajan, Jessica Schulte. Mary Jane Lim-Fat

Investigations focused on determining the causal mechanisms of tumors affecting the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. 

Chairs:
Biplab Dasgupta, Claudia Katharina Petritsch, Jeanette E. Eckel-Passow, Justin Lathia, Milan Chheda, Robert Prins, Siddhartha Mitra

Investigations focused on nervous system activity regulation of cancer initiation and growth in addition to mechanisms by which cancer and cancer therapies affect nervous system activity.

Chairs:
Soma Sengupta, Steve Brem, Yuan Pan, Matt Dun

Research studies that test medical, surgical, or behavioral interventions in patients.  

Chairs:
Andrew Lassman, Elizabeth Gerstner, James Perry, Sani Haider Kizilbash

Research studies focused on cancer that has spread from a primary solid organ to the central nervous system.    

Chairs:
Alireza Mansouri, Jonathan Yang, Lisa Rogers

Investigations focused on central nervous system tumors with an incidence rate below the threshold defining rare disease.  

Chairs:
Sepideh Mokhtari, Shannon Fortin-Ensign

Research studies focused on differences in overall health, burden of disease, or health outcomes between populations that are attributable to social, economic, gender, racial, and or environmental factors.  

Chairs:
Joshua Budhu, Sylvia Kurz

Research studies involving the use of genomic material to diagnose, classify, and measure the course of disease or response to tumor therapies. 

Chairs:
Albert Lai, Christina Appin, Giselle Lopez, David Meredith

Research studies focused on outcomes and/or causal mechanisms of genetic tumor syndromes with associated intracranial neoplasms. 

Chairs:
Phioanh Leia Nghiemphu, Michael Fisher

Investigations focused on hematolymphoid malignancies of the central nervous system. 

Chairs:
Bryan Neth, David Schiff

Research studies focused on structural, metabolic, or functional imaging to assess neoplasms of the central nervous system.

Chairs:
Nicholas Blondin, Rajan Jain, Suyash Mohan, Leland Hu

Investigations focused on neurocognitive effects or neurological complications of cancer care.

Chairs:
L. Nicholas Gonzalez Castro, Ugur Sener

Research studies focused on surgical therapies and drug delivery for brain malignancies.

Chairs:
Daniel Orringer, Gavin Dunn, Nader Sanai

Research studies focused on basic, clinical, and translational sciences for children, adolescence, and young adults with central nervous system malignancies. 

Chairs:
Chris Jones, Holly Lindsay, Matthias Karajannis, Praveen Raju, Tom Belle Davidson

Investigations focused on clinical radiotherapy and radiobiology for the treatment of central nervous system malignancies. 

Chairs:
Daniel Wahl, Fred Lam, Steve Braunstein, Vinai Gondi

Research studies focused on innovations in patient care, quality of life, palliative care, and end of life for patients with central nervous system malignancies. 

Chairs:
Akanksha Sharma, Jennie Taylor, Tobias Walbert