Chirag Patel, MD, PhD

Chirag B. Patel, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of neuro-oncology and a McNair Scholar at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC). He completed MD/PhD training at the UTHealth Houston/MDACC MSTP and neurology residency at UCLA, before a postdoctoral fellowship in multimodality molecular imaging and a clinical fellowship in neuro-oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He then joined the faculty at Stanford as a clinical assistant professor in the neurology and radiology departments, where he served as the adult neuro-oncology fellowship program director. He was awarded a Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience:Translate Grant that led to the development of a minimally-invasive technology for measuring intracranial pressure, which forms the basis for a start-up (SensoBrain). He was subsequently recruited to MDACC, where his translational research laboratory studies alternating electric fields as a form of anti-cancer therapy (with one issued patent and another pending), neuronal-brain cancer interactions, and molecular imaging and advanced neuroimaging to enable earlier detection of disease progression in patients with brain cancer.