Amy Heimberger, MD, PhD
Biography
Dr. Heimberger specializes in awake craniotomies and brain mapping. Her research primarily focuses on immune therapeutic strategies for patients with central nervous system malignancies. Dr. Heimberger has been instrumental in the development of various immune therapeutics, some of which were developed in her laboratory and are based on her own patents. Her team recently discovered differences in the distribution and interaction of T-cells within different parts of brain tumor and brain metastasis microenvironments, a finding that was published in JCI Insight. This research underscores how the immune cell interactome varies between cancer lineages.
In 2021, she was appointed to the National Cancer Advisory Board.