Brain Tumor Immunotherapy

An authoritative panel of researchers and clinicians critically reviews the entire field to provide a comprehensive guide to modern brain tumor immunotherapy and thereby enhance future research in this area. The contributors detail many of the key laboratory experiments and clinical protocols that are currently being investigated, integrate the available information from previous and ongoing research, and help define the current status of the field. Topics range from adoptive cellular and antibody-mediated immunotherapy of brain tumors to tumor vaccines and related strategies, and include many vanguard experimental strategies and immunological techniques for studying brain tumor immunotherapy. Cutting-edge and comprehensive, Brain Tumor Immunotherapy brings together all the important recent advances in our understanding of central nervous system tumor immunology and illustrates in powerful detail the many new applications now harnessing the immune response for brain tumor therapeutics.

David M. Ashley, PHD: Department of Hematology and Oncology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Donald P. Becker, MD: Division of Neurosurgery and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles Darell D. Bigner, MD, PHD: Department of Pathology and Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PHD: Robert Steel Research Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Timothy F. Cloughesy, MD: Department of Neurology and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles Edward P. Cohen, MD: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL Frances K. Conley, MD: Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center Faith Davis, PHD: Department of Epidemiology, University of Illinois, Chicago Nicolas DE Tribolet, MD: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland Pierre-Yves Dietrich, MD: Division of Oncology, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland John M. Duff, MD: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospitals of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland S. Ather Enam, MD, PHD: Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI Habib Fakhrai, PHD: Advanced Biotherapies, San Diego, CA Roberta P. Glick, MD: Departments of Neurosurgery, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Rush Medical College, Cook County Hospital and University of Illinois, Chicago Svetlana Gramatikova, PHD: Advanced Biotherapies, San Diego, CA Walter A. Hall, MD: Departments of Neurosurgery, Radiation Oncology, and Radiology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis Amy B. Heimberger, MD: Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Frank P. Holladay, MD: Providence Medical Building, Kansas City, KS Carol A. Kruse, PHD: Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver Linda M. Liau, MD, PHD: Division of Neurosurgery and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles Terry Lichtor, MD, PHD: Department of Neurological Surgery, Rush Medical College, Loyola University Chicago and Cook County Hospital, IL William H. McBride, DSC: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles Roberta McKean-Cowdin, PHD: Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Paul S. Mischel, MD: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Neuropathology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles Gregory E. Plautz, MD: Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Susan Preston-Martin, PHD: Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Wilfried Roth, MD: Department of Neurology, University of Tubingen, Germany David Rubinstein, MD: Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Hospital, Denver Rohangiz Safaei, PHD: Advanced Biotherapies, San Diego, CA John H. Sampson, MD, PHD: Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Suyu Shu, PHD: Department of Surgery, Center for Surgery Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH Victor C. K. Tse, MD, PHD: Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center Stephane Vandenabeele, Pharmd: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia Harry V. Vinters, MD: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Neuropathology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles Michael Weller, MD: Department of Neurology, University of Tubingen, Germany Carol J. Wikstrand, PHD: Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Gary W. Wood, PHD: CAI Center, Kansas City, MO Michael R. Zalutsky, PHD: Departments of Pathology and Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC