University of Southern California Department of Neurological Surgery
Los Angleles, California, United States
DAVID D. TRAN received his MD and PhD degrees from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 2005 and completed his postgraduate training in Oncology and Neuro-Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis in 2011. Dr. Tran currently serves as Chief of Neuro-Oncology and Co-Director of the USC Brain Tumor Center at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He is a leader in Precision Medicine and a NIH/NCI-funded investigator. Research in the Tran laboratory focuses on understanding the molecular mechanism of how cancer develops, progresses, and resists treatment through a vertically integrated approach, starting with clinical observations, guided by systems and computational analyses, followed by experimental validation and translation into novel, safe and effective anti-cancer therapeutics.
