Program Members: Brain Tumor Center of Excellence

The Core Group of the BTCOE is represented by: 

• J. Daniel Bourland, PhD
• A. William Blackstock, MD
• Charles L. Branch, MD
• Waldemar Debinski, MD, PhD, Director
• Glenn J. Lesser, MD
• Michael E. Robbins, PhD, Associate Director
• Edward G. Shaw, MD
• Stephen B. Tatter, MD, PhD

The Core Principal Investigators of the BTCOE laboratories and their clinical co-investigators/collaborators include:

• Waldemar Debinski, MD, PhD, Director
• Michael E. Robbins, PhD, Associate Director
• Hannah Caldas, PhD
• Weiling Zhao, PhD
• Linda Metheny-Barlow, PhD
• Akiva Mintz, M.D, PhD
• Ann Peiffer, PhD
• A. William Blackstock, Jr., MD
• Michael D. Chan, MD
• Thomas L. Ellis, MD
• Glenn Lesser, MD
• Ryan Mott, MD
• Edward G. Shaw, MD
• Constance Stanton, MD
• Stephen B. Tatter, MD, PhD

The Team at Virginia Tech includes:

• Rafael V. Davalos, PhD
• Clive Evans, PhD
• Paulo Garcia, PhD
• Rick Jensen, PhD
• Theresa Reineke, PhD
• John Robertson, DVM
• John Rossmeisl, DVM
• Bev Rzigalinski, PhD

There are also a large number of investigators across the Wake Forest School of Medicine involved in translational research on brain tumors.