Human Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors: From Bench to Bedside. Volume 1

Prof. Nima Rezaei entered the TUMS School of Medicine in 1995. He received his M.D. degree in 2002 and further studied Molecular and Genetic Medicine, in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Sheffield, UK and further received his Ph.D. in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics there. He received a short-term fellowship in Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in Pediatric Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit for SCID and Related Disorders, Newcastle, UK, awarded by the ESID (European Society of Immunodeficiency).Professor Rezaei is now the Full Professor of Immunology and Vice Dean of Research and Technologies, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and the co-founder and Head of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. He is also the Founding President of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Prof. Rezaei has already been the Director of more than 100 research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. Prof. Rezaei is the editor, editorial assistant, or editorial board member of more than 40 international journals. He has edited more than 50 international books, has presented more than 500 lectures/posters in congresses/meetings, and has published more than 1,100 scientific papers in the international journals.Dr. Sara Hanaei started medicine at TUMS in 2010 and started a master of public health (MPH) in 2014. She graduated with MD-MPH in 2018. She also received TUMS Research Diploma (TUMS-RD) in a 2-year study period from 2013-2015. She was a research assistant at Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID) from 2018-2021 and further continued neurosurgery as a clinical specialty at TUMS in 2021. She has experience in teaching research skills to students.Medical research was one of her greatest interests since the beginning of her academic education, especially in the fields of Neurosurgery and Immunology, therefore, she started research in those fields. Over the past decade, she contributed to different research projects, books, and other research activities including instructing research workshops in statistics, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis. She got involved in executive tasks and developed some executive skills through membership in the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), where she experienced organizing scientific events, congresses, festivals, scoring, rankings, etc.

• Chaptre 1. Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Among the Life-Threatening Health Problems: An Introduction.- Chaptre 2. Epidemiology of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 3. The Role of Neuro-inflammation and Innate Immunity in Pathophysiology of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 4. The Role of Cellular Immunity and Adaptive Immunity in Pathophysiology of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 5. Immunotherapy as a New Therapeutic Approach for Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 6. Cell of Origin of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 7. The Role of Bioinformatics and Imaging Models in Tumorigenesis and Treatment Response of Brain and Spinal Cord Neoplasms.- Chaptre 8. The Role of Epigenetics in Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 9. Stem Cells and Targeted Gene Therapy in Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 10. Nutrition and Diet: A Double-Edged Sword in Development and Treatment of Brain Tumors.- Chaptre 11. The Role of Nanotechnology in Brain Tumors.- Chaptre 12.The Role of Nanotechnology in Spinal Cord Tumors.- Chaptre 13. The Economic Burden of Malignant Brain Tumors.