Manish K. Aghi, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Manish Aghi is a neurosurgeon and scientist at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He completed his MD-PhD degrees through the MSTP program at Harvard Medical School, followed by neurological surgery residency and postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently faculty in the department of neurological surgery and graduate division of biomedical sciences, as well as a principal investigator in the Brain Tumor Research Center at UCSF.
His clinical practice is focused on the surgical management of brain and skull base tumors, with special emphasis on intraoperative brain mapping for glioma surgery, pituitary tumor surgery, and minimally invasive endoscopic skull base surgery. He serves as PI on multiple industry sponsored and investigator-initiated phase I-II clinical trials comparing immunotherapy versus anti-angiogenic therapy of recurrent glioblastoma, as well as investigating convection-enhanced delivery of oncolytic viruses and nanoliposomal chemotherapy to recurrent glioblastoma.