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Ennio Antonio Chiocca

Ennio Antonio Chiocca MD, PhD, FAANS

Neurosurgery
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Chiocca is Co-Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience. Dr. Chiocca also serves as Chair of the BWH Department of Neurosurgery and is the Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. Previously, Dr. Chiocca was Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center.

He has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, including Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Molecular Cell, and PNAS. Dr. Chiocca’s research has focused on how viruses with specific gene mutations will replicate selectively in tumors with a specific defect in a tumor suppressor pathway. His research has also included how modulation of innate immunity will improve replication of these tumor-selective viruses.
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