Today on The Fundamentals is Dr. Maria Castro, the R.C. Schneider collegiate professor of neurosurgery, and a professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research program aims to develop immunotherapies for primary and metastatic brain cancer, studying basic immune biology mechanisms leading to clinical implementation. She has been inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the Latin American Academy of Sciences, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. She has won numerous awards for her contributions to basic science and cancer research and is a diversity ambassador for the Cancer Biology Graduate Training Program.

You can learn more about Dr. Castro here, and you can follow her @castro2355_mg, the Rogel Cancer Center @UMRogelCancer, the department of neurosurgery @umichneuro, and Michigan Neurscience Institute @UM_MNI on X.

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Find out more about the research stories mentioned at the top of the show at the links below:

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/gene-therapy-brain-tumor-shows-promising-early-results-humans

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/two-genes-linked-autism-implicated-brain-cell-connectivity

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