Nduka Mgbechinyere Amankulor MD
Brain & Spinal Tumor, Neurosurgical Spine Surgery
Director of Neurosurgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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3400 Civic Center Blvd# 2Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone+1 215-662-3487
Fax+1 215-349-5534
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Education & Training
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2005 - 2011- Yale-New Haven Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 2004 - 2005
Yale School of MedicineClass of 2004
Certifications & Licensure
PA State Medical License 2012 - 2026
NJ State Medical License 2022 - 2023
NY State Medical License 2011 - 2013
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
Clinical Trials
- Fractionated Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Large Brain Metastases Start of enrollment: 2013 Jul 16
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Corticosteroid-Dependent Association between Prognostic Peripheral Blood Cell-Free DNA Levels and Neutrophil-Mediated NETosis in Patients with Glioblastoma.Jacob E Till, Nicholas J Seewald, Zachariya Yazdani, Zhuoyang Wang, Dominique Ballinger
Clinical Cancer Research. 2025-04-01 - A multi-institutional phase 1 clinical trial exploring upfront multimodal standard of care and combined immunotherapies for newly diagnosed glioblastoma.Patrick Y Wen, Andrea Manzanera, Caroline Duault, Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova, Lenika Lopez
Neuro-Oncology. 2025-03-22 - Machine Learning-based Prognostic Subgrouping of Glioblastoma: A Multi-center Study.Hamed Akbari, Spyridon Bakas, Chiharu Sako, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Javier Villanueva-Meyer
Neuro-Oncology. 2024-12-12
Journal Articles
- Single-Cell Profiling of Human Gliomas Reveals Macrophage Ontogeny as a Basis for Regional Differences in Macrophage Activation in the Tumor MicroenvironmentDaniel A Lim, S John Liu, Manish Aghi, Hideho Okada, Nduka M Amankulor, Arnold R Kriegstein, BioMed Central
Authored Content
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Benign Spine Tumors: Is Dose De-Escalation Appropriate? RelatedMay 2018
Press Mentions
- Ryan Shazier’s 50 Phenoms: Love, Support Help Man Overcome Brain TumorOctober 19th, 2020
Single Gene Alters the Course of Brain CancerMay 23rd, 2017
Penn Medicine Neurosurgeon Named Cancer Moonshot Scholar by White HouseAugust 12th, 2023
Grant Support
- Interrogating Mechanisms of Anti-tumor Immunity in Human Subjects and Murine Models of IDH-Mutant Glioma Treated with All-Trans Retinoic Acid and PD-1 InhibitionUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA2023–2028
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