The "Brain Tumors: An Interdisciplinary Approach" is the thirteenth volume of the "Interdisciplinary Cancer Research" series, publishes comprehensive volume on diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. It starts with a general title on an interdisciplinary approach in brain tumors. Inherited genetics syndromes associated with central nervous system tumors as well as the impact of epigenetic methylation on gliomagenesis were explained. Then new approaches on precision medicine in brain tumors are discussed. After discussion on neurosurgical management of brain tumors, neuroimaging and radiosurgery of brain tumors are explained. Novel approaches to bypassing the blood-brain barrier for drug delivery to brain tumors are also discussed. After presentation of pediatric low-grade gliomas, treatment of glioblastoma is the subject of other chapters. The potential role of artificial intelligence in the treatment of glioblastoma is discussed in the last chapter. This is the main concept of Cancer Immunology Project (CIP), which is a part of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). This interdisciplinary book will be of special value for neurosurgeons and oncologists who wish to extend their knowledge on brain tumors.

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Professor Nima Rezaei gained his medical degree (MD) from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and subsequently obtained an MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and a PhD in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics from the University of Sheffield, UK. He also spent a short-term fellowship of Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Newcastle General Hospital. Professor Rezaei is now the Full Professor of Immunology and Vice Dean of Research and Technologies, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and the co-founder and Head of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. He is also the Founder of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Prof. Rezaei has already been the Director of more than two hundred research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. Prof. Rezaei is the editor, editorial assistant, or editorial board member of more than fifty international journals. He has edited more than one hundred international books, has presented more than a thousand lectures/posters in congresses/meetings, and has published more than 1,500 scientific papers in the international journals.