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Alexandra Golby, MD, of the Department of Neurosurgery, is searching for better methods to define the margins of brain tumors in an effort to improve surgical outcomes.
For her research on developing advanced brain imaging technologies and image-guided surgical techniques, Golby is the recipient of one of this year’s Young Clinician Awards from CIMIT, a Boston-based research group made up of local academic medical centers, engineering schools and industry partners. Funded by Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Office of Science and Technology, the award is given to young clinical researchers who aim to solve complex health care problems.
“This award is a great support for the concept of translational research. CIMIT is very committed to finding clinicians who have one foot in technology and one foot in the clinical world,” Golby said. “This award gives me more resources to devote to the many projects I am working on.”
Her projects are focused on anatomic and functional brain mapping in areas surrounding brain tumors that have indistinct margins. She aims to develop a variety of techniques that intelligently scan the brain before and during surgery, thereby identifying critical brain areas and improving the definition of tumors.
“Our goal is to help patients both today and tomorrow with image-guided neurosurgery,” Golby said.