St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN  38105
USA

Amar Gajjar, M.D., Richard Gilbertson, M.D., Ph.D.

Research Categories:

    -Clinical research: pediatric neuro-oncology
    -Laboratory-based research: focused on pediatric brain tumors

Research Projects/interests:

     Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center
    -Novel aspects of chemotherapy
    -Radiation oncology
    -Neuroimaging
    -Neuropsychology
    -Late effects
   
     Research program:
    -Genome wide analysis of pediatric brain tumors
    -Mouse models
    -Transgenics and knock out mouse tumor models
    -Stem cell research
    -Screening for novel drugs against brain tumors
    -Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodymanics