Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis

Babak Kateb

Babak Kateb
International Brain Mapping & Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society, USA

Biography

Babak has been serving as the founding chairman of the board of directors for IBMISPS and the Brain Mapping Foundation as well as Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of IBMISPS and the Brain Mapping Foundation since 2004 He chairs the publication committee of IBMISPS as editor in chief which oversee IBMISPS publications: IBMISPSNeuroImage special issues and "PloSOne NeuroMapping Therapeutics collections He has been trained and employed at the Department of Neurology at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center UCLA Department of Neurosurgery the DumontUCLA Transplant center CedarsSinai Medical Center transplant Center Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars Sinai Medical Center USCKeck school of Medicine and California Institute of Technology and City of Hope National Cancer Center His research on the use of thermal imaging for brain tumor detection nanoneurosurgery and use of NASA Enose to sniff brain cancers has been reported by the Associated Press NewScientist and NASA

Research Interest

Peripheral neuropathy, stroke, epilepsy, fetal cell transplant into the brain, pancreatic islet xenotrasplantation, human brain computer interface and brain implants, effect of hypothermia in traumatic brain injury patients with low Glasgow Coma Score, image guided surgery using NASA thermal and UV imaging technology, optical imaging and laser spectroscopy, microwave ablation, stem cell research, nanoneurosurgery and virtual reality neurosurgical simulation.