Multimodal therapy for brain tumors ⁎

Abstract

Ting Lei. M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of the Neurosurgery Department, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Tongji Medical University, China, and became a neurosurgeon afterward. Then, he successfully obtained a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship to undertake his doctorate in medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg in Germany. Under the supervision of Profs. R. Fahlbusch and M. Buchfelder, he completed his doctoral degree in the same university and returned to Tongji Hospital to become the first postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery. Since 1998, he has been Chief of the Neurosurgical Department. His scientific interest is basic research and clinical treatment of brain tumors, including pituitary adenoma and glioma. He introduced transsphenoidal surgery in the treatment of pituitary adenoma in Hubei Province, China. Currently, he performs more than 300 transsphenoidal surgeries annually. Over the past years, he also modified this surgical approach to make it less invasive and provide patients with fast postoperative recovery and better quality of life. He has been an active researcher in the brain tumor research community for over 30 years now. He received several grants from the National Natural Science Foundation and published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers in national and international journals, including the Journal of Neurosurgery, Epilepsy, European Journal of Cancer, and Cancer Letter. Meanwhile, he is also an academic editor of several journals. Prof. Lei serves as the chairman of the neurosurgery branch of the Wuhan Medical Association and is a committee member of several academic associations.