Lata Menon, PhD

Lata Menon, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Lata G Menon is from India. She received her PhD in Immunology/Cancer Research in 2000, from Mahatma Gandhi University (Amala Cancer Research Centre, Thrissur) in Kerala, India. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Chemotherapy Division of Cancer Research Institute, Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai, India. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Allergy/Immunology, North Shore-LIJ University Hospital in Manhasset, New York and later in the Department of Medicine at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey/UMDNJ in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Menon’s project focuses on the development of new local delivery systems for the treatment of brain tumors, including meningiomas. These studies employ powerful antitumor agents encased in biodegradable polymers which when placed in the surgical cavity will slowly degrade and release the agent into the tumor site, thereby inhibiting tumor growth.