Bio

Edjah Nduom, MD is a neurosurgical oncologist in the Surgical Neurology Branch of the National Institutes of Health of the United States of America. He studied biomechanical engineering at Stanford University and then attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He pursued his primary neurosurgical training at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, during which he was awarded a clinical fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. After residency, he completed two years of further fellowship training in neurosurgical oncology and tumor immunology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. His clinical specialty is the surgical management of benign and malignant brain tumors, and his research focuses on the study of immunosuppression in the glioma microenvironment as well as the use of noncoding RNAs as a novel immune therapeutic approach for glioblastomas.