Dr. Linda Liau is Chair, Professor, and Director of the Brain Tumor Program for the Department of Neurosurgery at UCLA. She has an NIH-funded laboratory with a busy surgical practice involving intraoperative functional brain mapping for resection of brain tumors. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology and is the director of the UCLA Brain Cancer SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence). She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has led phase 3 clinical trials for dendritic cell vaccination strategies in patients with glioblastoma.