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Mai Dang is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, clinical child neurologist, and principal investigator in the Brain Tumor Center. Her clinical specialty is in neurologic complications of brain cancer. She received her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. For her doctorate work, she made mouse models for and studied the mechanisms of Dyt1 dystonia, a pediatric movement disorder.

Dang completed her residency and fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP, University of Pennsylvania). For post-clinic training, she remained at CHOP for a research fellowship and instructorship and obtained clinical outpatient neuro-oncology training. During this time, her research focus was on cell extrinsic regulators of medulloblastoma growth and response to treatment including myeloid cells in the tumor microenvironment. Her work identified the dynamic heterogeneity of macrophages and microglia in a genetic mouse model of medulloblastoma during tumor growth and response to various modalities of treatment.

Her current research program is an extension of this work and now encompasses several multi-disciplinary basic and translational projects that aim to improve efficacy and safety of treatments for children with high grade brain tumors.