Dr. Keith Black is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery, Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, and Director of the Johnnie L. Cochran,Jr. Brain Tumor Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical center.
Dr. Black holds the Ruth & Lawrence Harvey Chair in Neurosciences. An internationally renowned neurosurgeon and researcher, Dr. Black's groundbreaking research includes designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered directly to the tumor. His work in this field received the Jacob Javits award from the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council of the National Institutes of Health in June of 2000.
Dr. Black and patients undergoing the first clinical trials of the drug, RMP-7 were profiled in 1996 on the PBS program, The New Explorers in a new episode called "Outsmarting the brain". He was also featured on the cover of Time Magazine in the fall of 1997 special edition as a hero of medicine.
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