Rona Carroll is Associate Director of the Neurosurgical Oncology Laboratory in Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. The Neurosurgical Oncology laboratory engages in a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the basic biology of human brain tumors, and then uses this information to develop new therapeutic strategies. The laboratory provides a unique environment for neurosurgeons, basic scientists, medical students and research fellows to conduct cutting edge scientific studies. More specifically, Dr. Carroll has conducted seminal work on the expression and function of steroid hormone receptors in human meningiomas. This work is now being expanded in collaboration with Drs. Kalamarides and Giovannini in Paris, France. They are working on the development of new animal models of meningiomas and genetic characterization of these tumors by SNP and Affymetrix microarray analysis. Additionally, Dr. Carroll is developing new local deliveries methods for the treatment of brain tumors in collaboration with Dr. Marcelle Machluf, a bioengineer at the Technion University in Haifa, Israel.