Medical Student
Columbia University Department of Neurosurgery
New York, NY, US
Nicholas B. Dadario is a rising 4th year medical student who is a current research fellow in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and pursuing an MD at Rutgers Robert Wood Jonson Medical School where he will soon enter the 2025 Neurological Surgery Residency Match. Nicholas will graduate in May 2025 with Junior AOA Honors and a Distinction in Research. Nicholas grew up in New York and his undergraduate and graduate research has predominantly focused on critical topics in the field of neuroscience, including neuro-oncology and brain anatomy organization. His early research was in a computationally-driven lab led by Dr. Michael Sughrue examining how an improved understanding of the brain connectome architecture can be leveraged to better understand structural-functional relationships in the human brain, and how this information may inform more personalized treatments for neurosurgical patients. In medical school, Nicholas joined a translational brain tumor laboratory led by Dr. Jeffrey N Bruce and Dr. Peter Canoll, where he was awarded the NREF Medical Student Research Fellowship examining patient-specific responses of glioma therapy on the brain connectome and local tumor microenvironment. Given the profound relationships found in this research between neoplastic and nonneoplastic cells in response to therapy, his susbequent work has begun to extensively examine how various targeted chemotherapies and immunotherapies alter the tumor microenvironment in glioma, especially in driving the inflammatory landscape. This work led Nicholas to win the 2024 AANS Southeastern Brain Tumors Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award. Overall, Nicholas's interest in neuro-oncology has led to a number of peer-reviewed publications and a recent book publication on glioma.
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Local Delivery of Topotecan Induces Immunogenic Cell Death and Associated Myeloid Response in GBM
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