Cancer Biology & Genetics Program

The Viviane Tabar Lab

Research

Viviane Tabar, MD

Professor

I am a neurosurgeon-scientist and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. I have clinical expertise in the surgical management of brain tumors such as complex gliomas, meningiomas and skull base tumors. My lab focus is the study of human stem cells for regenerative purposes in the brain, but also as tools for the study of brain tumors.

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Research Projects

Featured News

Upcoming Clinical Trial Will Test New Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease in Humans

Friday, January 15, 2021

In the Lab

Can Stem Cells Be Taught to Repair a Radiation-Damaged Brain?

Friday, February 6, 2015

In the Lab

Investigators Use Stem Cells to Study Rare Pediatric Brain Tumors

Monday, December 1, 2014

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Publications

Piao, Major, Auyeung, Policarpio, Menon, Droms, Gutin, Uryu, Tchieu, Soulet and Tabar. Human embryonic stem cell-derived oligodendrocyte progenitors remyelinate the brain and rescue behavioral deficits following radiation. Cell Stem Cell. 2015 Feb 5;16(2):198-210.

Funato K, Major T, Lewis PW, Allis CD, Tabar V. Use of human embryonic stem cells to model pediatric gliomas with H3.3K27M histone mutation. Science. 2014 Dec 19;346(6216):1529-33.

Tabar V, Studer L. Pluripotent stem cells in regenerative medicine: challenges and recent progress. Nat Rev Genet. 2014 Feb;15(2):82-92.

Hicks M.J. et al. Genetic modification of neurons to express bevacizumab for local anti-angiogenesis treatment of glioblastoma. Cancer Gene Ther. 2015 Jan; 22(1);1-8.

Tabar V. Making a pituitary gland in a dish. Call Stem Cell. 2011. Dec 2;9(6):490-1.

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