David Baskin

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David S. Baskin
Education
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Medical career
FieldNeurosurgery

David S. Baskin is a neurosurgeon who currently works at

Weill Cornell Medical College
.

Education

Baskin has a bachelor's degree from

Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco.[1]

Career

Baskin taught neurological surgery at Baylor College of Medicine from 1984 until 2005. In 2011, he published a clinical trial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology regarding the efficacy of a type of gene therapy for malignant glioma, the most common form of brain tumor. This trial concluded that the therapy was safe and that the survival trends were "encouraging."[2][3] He became the director of the Peak Center upon its establishment in 2013.[4] In 2014, Baskin and his team conducted research regarding the use of nanosyringes to treat glioblastoma by filling them with anticancer drugs and releasing them into the bloodstream.[5]

Baskin has conducted research in which human

Committee on Government Reform that ethylmercury is possibly more toxic than methylmercury.[9] He also conducted research that demonstrates that cells from children with autism are more sensitive to environmental toxins than cells from age and sex matched controls.[10][11]

Baskin has won the American Academy of Neurosurgery Award; the American College of Surgeons' Smith, Kline & French fellowship; the Wakeman Award for Research in the Neurosciences; and a distinguished alumni award from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In 2000, he was elected to The Society of Neurological Surgeons.[12]

References

  1. ^ "David S. Baskin". Archived from the original on 2015-05-15. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
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  3. ^ "Novel suicide gene therapy combined with standard treatment treats malignant brain tumors". Your Houston News. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  4. ^ Kimrey, Jennifer (27 September 2013). "New treatment facility named". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  5. ^ Turner, Allan (21 March 2014). "Philanthropy keeps wheels of research turning". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
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  7. ^ Palta, Rina (1 March 2004). "Searching for the Missing Link". Mother Jones. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  8. About.com. Archived from the original
    on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  9. ^ Burton, Dan (May 2003). "Mercury in Medicine: Taking Unnecessary Risks" (PDF). pp. 15–16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
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  12. ^ "Dr. David Baskin". Society of Neurological Surgeons. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.

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