Teresa Purzner

I am a neurosurgery resident at the University of Toronto. In 2012 I left residency to pursue a PhD in developmental neurobiology at Stanford University. While at Stanford I entered a highly interdisciplinary project aimed at identifying novel drug targets for pediatric brain cancer. Ultimately, this led to a clinical trial for a promising new drug for the treatment of medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain cancer, which began feb 2019