Keith L. Black is Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His research work includes the development of a vaccine to enhance the body’s immune response to brain tumors, biology of blood-brain barrier and biochemical modulation of the blood-brain barrier, targeted drug delivery, cancer stem cells, microwave tumor ablation, nanotechnology for drug delivery, optical- guided surgery for brain tumors, and Alzheimer’s retinal imaging.