John Howard Sampson is an American neurosurgeon who was formerly chief of the department of neurosurgery at Duke University where he serves as a professor of surgery, biomedical engineering, immunology, and pathology.[1]

Education edit

Work and research edit

Sampson has written a variety of papers, including a paper in Nature on his clinical trial on the treatment of glioblastoma patients and another in how tetanus toxoid and CCL3 improve dendritic cell vaccines in mice and glioblastoma patients.

Clinical interests edit

Newly diagnosed or recurrent primary or metastic brain tumors, including enrollment in clinical trials of new therapeutic agents (especially oncolytic poliovirus therapy, immunotherapy, vaccines and convection-enhanced delivery); posterior fossa tumors, such as acoustic neuromas or meningiomas; microsurgery for tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia, including microvascular decompression; microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm, pituitary tumors, complex skull-base tumors; radiosurgery; evaluation and surgery for patients with the full spectrum of other neurosurgery pathologies.

Media edit

Sampson has appeared on 60 Minutes and many other news networks for his work with glioblastoma cancer treatments.

References edit

  1. ^ "John H. Sampson | Duke Department of Neurosurgery". neurosurgery.duke.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-03.