LINDA M. LIAU
NEUROSURGERY
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery at
UCLA Health; Professor and Director,
UCLA Brain Tumor Center; Professor
of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA
UCLA Health
Linda Liau, MD, PhD, MBA is internationally recognized forher achievements in understanding the immunobiology of malignant brain tumors and pioneering the use of dendritic cell-based vaccines and other immunotherapeutic approaches for glioblastoma. She led the firstin-human clinical trial of a personalized cellular immunotherapy for glioblastoma, which she took for early Phase 1 studies to a large international multi-center Phase 3 trial. Dr. Liau has authored over 250 peer-reviewed research articles, along with several book chapters, and a textbook entitled Brain Tumor Immunotherapy.
