Clinical Focus

• Neurosurgery
• Brain Tumors

Honors and Awards

• Disease Team Therapy Development Planning Award (Planning Investigator), CIRM (DR2-05373) (2011-2012)
• Center for Brain and Behavior Awards in Pediatric Neurosciences (co-investigator), Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (2009-2011)
• Grand Opportunity Grant (co-investigator), NIH (RC2CA148491-01) (2009-2011)
• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (PI), NIH-NCI (1F32CA132329-01) (2008-2010)
• SANS Challenge Finalist, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (2008)

Professional Education

Current Research Interests

My laboratory studies the biology of brain tumors with the goal of developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of malignant brain tumors and translating that research into clinical trials.

Clinical Trials

• Phase II Rindopepimut/GM-CSF in Relapsed EGFRvIII-Positive Glioblastoma Recruiting
• Phase I Rindopepimut after Conventional Radiation in Children w/ Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas Recruiting

Publications

• Expression of epidermal growth factor variant III (EGFRvIII) in pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas. Li G, Mitra SS, Monje M, Henrich KN, Bangs CD, Nitta RT, Wong AJ. J Neurooncol. 2012
• Pathology: Commonly Monitored Glioblastoma Markers: EFGR, EGFRvIII, PTEN, and MGMT. Camara-Quintana JQ, Nitta RT, Li G. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2012; 23 (2): 237-246
• Targeting EGF receptor variant III: tumor-specific peptide vaccination for malignant gliomas. Del Vecchio CA, Li G, Wong AJ. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2012; 11 (2): 133-44
• The CD47-signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPa) interaction is a therapeutic target for human solid tumors. Willingham SB, Volkmer JP, Gentles AJ, Sahoo D, Dalerba P, Mitra SS, Wang J, Contreras-Trujillo H, Martin R, Cohen JD, Lovelace P, Scheeren FA, Chao MP, Weiskopf K, Tang C, Volkmer AK, Naik TJ, Storm TA, Mosley AR, Edris B, Schmid SM, Sun CK, Chua MS, Murillo O, Rajendran P, Cha AC, Chin RK, Kim D, Adorno M, Raveh T, Tseng D, Jaiswal S, Enger PO, Steinberg GK, Li G, So SK, Majeti R, Harsh GR, van de Rijn M, Teng NN, Sunwoo JB, Alizadeh AA, Clarke MF, Weissman IL. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012
• The predictive value of serum myeloperoxidase for vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Lim M, Bower RS, Wang Y, Sims L, Bower MR, Camara-Quintana J, Li G, Cheshier S, Harsh GR, Steinberg GK, Guccione S. Neurosurg Rev. 2012