Guo joins UAB Department of Neurosurgery

Gao Guo, DDS., MSD, Ph.D.

On Jan. 4, 2024, the University of Alabama at Birmingham welcomed Gao Guo, DDS., MSD, Ph.D., as an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery.

Guo earned his doctoral degree in biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry before joining the UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Neurology for his second postdoctoral training. 

Guo’s areas of interests include oncogenic kinase signaling, brain tumors, glioblastoma and gliomas, but his research primarily focuses on elucidating the role of receptor tyrosine kinase in tumor cell invasion and survival of patients with glioblastoma. 

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