Manish K. Aghi MD, PhD, BS, MS

Dr. Aghi is a neurosurgeon-scientist specializing in adult brain tumors, including pituitary tumors, gliomas, chorodomas, and meningiomas. Dr. Aghi leads a large nationwide clinical reserach team that has published several dozen award winning publications on the resection of pituitary tumors and tumors of the anterior skull base through an endoscopic endonasal approach, and is currently leading a Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) taskforce to formulate national guidelines for the neurosurgical management of pituitary tumors. Dr. Aghi's work on glioblastoma spans from the bench to the operating room. Dr. Aghi leads a scientific laboratory studying how the tumor microenviornment contributes to therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma. The Aghi lab has been awarded an R01 researach grant from the NIH and large grants from the American Cancer Society and James McDonnell foundation. Read about Dr. Aghi's basic science research laboratory in the UCSF Brain Tumor Research Center (BTRC) here. These laboratory efforts synergize with Dr. Aghi's neurosurgical care of glioblastoma patients, which uses intraoperative mapping of brain function and 5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) to optimize tumor resection.