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Tom Curran

MD, FRS
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Kansas City, MO USA

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Senior Vice President, Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer

Children's Mercy Research Institute

Pediatrics, Oncology, Neurobiology, Medulloblastoma, Childhood Translational Research, Signal Transduction, Childhood Translational Research, Neuroscience

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Medulloblastoma

Medulloblastoma…

Medulloblastomas comprises the vast majority of pediatric embryonal tumors and by definition arise in the posterior fossa, where they constitute approximately 40% of all posterior fossa tumors. Other forms of embryonal tumors each make up 2% or less of all childhood brain tumors.The clinical feature

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(AT/RT)

Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor…

Central nervous system (CNS) atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) is a very rare, fast-growing tumor of the brain and spinal cord. It usually occurs in children aged three years and younger, although it can occur in older children and adults. About half of these tumors form in the cerebellum or

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AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science

Catalyzing Tissue-Based Brain Tumor Research Using Integrated Tumor Versus Somatic Variant Data…

March 26, 2015

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Felmeister, A., Rivera, T., Zhu, Y., Resnick, A., Lilly, J., Stokes, D., Pennington, J., Curran, T.

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