Linda M. Smith-Resar

Baltimore, MD USA

Johns Hopkins Medicine

About

Professor of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Basic research focus is hematologic malignancy and molecular mechanisms that lead to cancer.; Clinical research interests include sickle cell anemia.

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Baltimore, MD, USA

scientific

Projects

Specimen

Ongoing

Developing a Novel Tumor Model to Screen for New Therapies for Spinal Ependymoma…

Spinal ependymomas do not respond well to currently available treatment. Using newly developed methods and cell lines provided by the Children’s Brain Tumor Network, researchers seek to advance individualized care of this disease.

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Ependymoma

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Linda M. Smith-Resar

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Baltimore, MD, USA

research

Interests

Ependymoma…

Ependymomas arise from ependymal cells that line the ventricles and passageways in the brain and the center of the spinal cord. Ependymal cells produce cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). These tumors are classified as supratentorial or infratentorial. In children, most ependymomas are infratentorial tumors