Assistant Professor
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Humsa Venkatesh received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from Stanford University. After completing her postdoctoral work, she joined the Stanford faculty in 2019 and is now starting a Cancer Neuroscience research program as Assistant Professor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She has been recognized by the MIT Technology Review as a Pioneer Under 35 ‘TR35’ (2018), by Genetic Engineering News as a ‘Top 10 innovator to watch under 40’ (2019), and won the Science & SciLife Prize for Young Scientists (2019).
Dr. Venkatesh’s research studies the reciprocal interactions between the central nervous system and brain cancers. Her work emphasizes the electrical components of glioma pathophysiology and highlights the extent to which the brain and its neurons can control and facilitate disease progression. The understanding of these co-opting mechanisms has led to novel strategies to broadly treat cancers, by disabling their ability to electrically integrate into neural circuitry. Her pioneering research in this emerging field of cancer neuroscience aims to harness the systems level microenvironmental dependencies of tumor growth to develop innovative therapeutic treatments.
Steps to claim CME credits for BWH Neurology Grand Rounds 2020-2021:
Text this code "JANWOC” to 1-857-214-2277.
- A link will be sent to your email. Click on the link and complete the evaluation. After you complete the evaluation, your CME will be recorded. You will then be able to download a PDF of your certificate.
If you have any questions about the CME credit, please contact Partners Office of Continuing Professional Development at PartnersCPD@partners.org.
Upcoming Schedule:
9/15/21 - Neurodegenerative Case Conference
9/22/21 - Alison Goate
9/29/21 - BWH NEUROSCIENCE DAY
10/6/21 - Krishna Shenoy
10/13/21 - TDB
10/20/21 - Nenad Sestan
