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Specialized doctors worldwide

Who conducts research into other brain tumors? Everyone here comes from a public registry: as principal investigator of a study at ClinicalTrials.gov, or as last author of publications in PubMed. These are two different things, so we list them in two columns side by side rather than combining them into one figure.

Leads the most studies

Registered as principal investigator at ClinicalTrials.gov. Setting up and running a study is years of work.

1. 1 Henry S. Friedman Duke University, United States leads 19 studies register →
2. 2 Annick Desjardins Duke Health, United States leads 16 studies register →
3. 3 Edward A. Neuwelt OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, United States leads 16 studies register →
4. 4 David A. Reardon Duke Health, United States leads 15 studies register →
5. 5 Jeffrey J. Raizer Northwestern University, United States leads 15 studies register →
6. 6 Katherine E Warren National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States leads 15 studies register →
7. 7 Maryam Fouladi Nationwide Children's Hospital, United States leads 15 studies register →
8. 8 Stuart A. Grossman Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, United States leads 15 studies register →
9. 9 Jana L Portnow City of Hope Medical Center, United States leads 14 studies register →
10. 10 John A Boockvar Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States leads 14 studies register →

Also leading

11. 11 Patrick Y. Wen National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States leads 14 studies register →
12. 12 Katherine B Peters Duke University, United States leads 13 studies register →
13. 13 Mark R. Gilbert National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States leads 13 studies register →
14. 14 David M. Peereboom Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, United States leads 12 studies register →
15. 15 Howard A. Fine NCI - Neuro-Oncology Branch, United States leads 12 studies register →
16. 16 Chin-Sang Chung M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, United States leads 10 studies register →
17. 17 Glenn J. Lesser Wake Forest University Health Sciences, United States leads 10 studies register →
18. 18 Terence C. Burns UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, United States leads 10 studies register →
19. 19 Amar Gajjar St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States leads 9 studies register →
20. 20 John B. Fiveash University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States leads 9 studies register →
21. 21 Sabine Mueller University of California, San Francisco, United States leads 9 studies register →
22. 22 Stanislaw R. Burzynski Burzynski Research Institute, United States leads 9 studies register →
23. 23 Ashlee R Loughan Virginia Commonwealth University, United States leads 8 studies register →
24. 24 Darell D. Bigner Duke Cancer Institute, United States leads 8 studies register →
25. 25 Heather M. Conklin St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States leads 8 studies register →

Publishes most about this disease

Counted as last author on publications from the last five years — in medicine the leader of the research group. This also includes physicians who do not register studies but do advance the field.

1. 1 Steven D Chang Stanford University School of Medicine, United States 9 publications as last author PubMed →
2. 2 Randy S D'Amico Northwell, United States 7 publications as last author PubMed →
3. 3 Constantinos G Hadjipanayis University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, United States 6 publications as last author PubMed →
4. 4 Wei-Lin Jin Institute of Cancer Neuroscience, China 6 publications as last author PubMed →
5. 5 Carmine Mottolese Child Hospital, France 5 publications as last author PubMed →
6. 6 Sheila K Singh McMaster University, Canada 5 publications as last author PubMed →
7. 7 Justin D Lathia Cleveland Clinic Research, United States 5 publications as last author PubMed →
8. 8 Tom J Snijders University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands 5 publications as last author PubMed →
9. 9 Michael Lim Stanford University School of Medicine, United States 4 publications as last author PubMed →
10. 10 Ming Wei Huanhu Hospital Affiliated to Tianjin Medical University, China 4 publications as last author PubMed →

Also leading

11. 11 Hongwei Zhang Sanbo Brain Hospital, China 4 publications as last author PubMed →
12. 12 Ryuta Saito Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 4 publications as last author PubMed →
13. 13 Takakazu Kawamata Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan 4 publications as last author PubMed →
14. 14 Xiaoying Xue The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China 4 publications as last author PubMed →
15. 15 Yamei Tang Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, China 4 publications as last author PubMed →
16. 16 Yoshitaka Narita National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan 4 publications as last author PubMed →
17. 17 Yanyang Wang General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, China leads 4 studies · 3 publications as last author register →
18. 18 Jonathan H Sherman Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, United States 3 publications as last author PubMed →
19. 19 Brandon Lucke-Wold University of Florida, United States 3 publications as last author PubMed →
20. 20 Dalia Haydar Children's National Hospital, United States 3 publications as last author PubMed →
21. 21 Manuel Valiente Brain Metastasis Group, Spain 3 publications as last author PubMed →
22. 22 Catherine T Flores University of Florida, United States 3 publications as last author PubMed →
23. 23 Manish K Aghi University of California 3 publications as last author PubMed →
24. 24 Chuanshu Huang Wenzhou Medical University, China 3 publications as last author PubMed →
25. 25 David R Raleigh University of California San Francisco, United States 3 publications as last author PubMed →

Counted from ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed, updated on 2026-08-10. Is something incorrect, or would you prefer not to be listed? Let us know — we'll adjust it.

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