Kalil Abdullah Email & Phone Number

Kalil G. Abdullah, MD, MSc, is a board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of adult brain tumors and is Director of Translational Neuro Oncology at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.Dr. Abdullah specializes in the surgical treatment of brain tumors, and is an expert in minimally invasive approaches for the treatment of brain cancer.Dr. Abdullah is one of the few neurosurgeons in the country to be the principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded projects, and directs the University of Pittsburgh's Translational Neuro-Oncology Laboratory, developing new drug and treatment targets for brain cancers. He has been an investigator for numerous clinical trials for glioma and has published more than 100 research articles including key neuro oncology advances in journals such as Neuro-Oncology, Cancer Cell, Nature, and Clinical Cancer Research, and co-edited Glioblastoma, a seminal textbook on malignant gliomas. The Translational Neuro Oncology Laboratory has a track record of moving promising preclinical targets towards clinical trial and aims to translate rapidly from preclinical efficacy to clinical use.Dr. Abdullah earned his medical degree at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, where he was a National Institutes of Health Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar. He completed a residency in neurological surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and then received advanced training in open and endoscopic neurosurgical oncology through a fellowship at the Wellington Hospital in New Zealand. He completed an additional postdoctoral research fellowship in stem cell biology at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics