Clinical Trials

Working at Orange County’s only university medical center, the physicians at UC Irvine’s Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program provide patients with some of the most innovative and advanced approaches to treating brain, spine and peripheral nerve tumors. By participating in clinical trials, our patients have access to leading-edge treatments and therapies.

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Basic Science Research

The Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program is actively involved in translational basic science brain tumor research as well as molecular biology brain tumor research.

Translational efforts include those led by Dr. Daniela Bota in the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center’s translational research laboratory and others led by Dr. Mark Linskey and the Beckman Laser Institute on applications of modulated imaging to investigate brain tumors and intraoperative mapping.

Dr. Yi-Hong Zhou leads molecular biology studies at the Brain Tumor Research Laboratory. Zhou is studying the a particular tumor suppressor pathway. Zhou and Linskey also are exploring the differential biology of tumor stem cells versus the main tumor cell population and the molecular modeling of brain tumor patient prognosis.