Faculty Member
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Robert M. Prins Lab
UCLA Department of Neurosurgery
Edie & Lew Wasserman Building
300 Stein Plaza, Suite 420
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Biography
Robert M. Prins is a tumor immunologist with joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology. Dr. Prins earned his B.S. in Kinesiology and his M.S. in Physiological Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Immunology from the Medical College of Virginia. He completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Cedars-Sinai Neurosurgical Institute and the UCLA Division of Neurosurgery before joining the faculty at UCLA in 2006. Dr. Prins is a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Brain Research Institute, and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Dr. Prins is currently the Director of the I3T Seminar Series, the Brain Tumor Immunology Research Lab and for many clinical trials of immunotherapy. His research centers on understanding the immunology of malignant brain tumors and devising new immune-based therapies to treat these deadly tumors.
Faculty Member
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
10833 Le Conte Avenue, NPI 18-228
Box 957039
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Research Interests
Dr. Prins’s research interests include understanding the changes in brain metabolism that occur after pediatric traumatic brain injury and how alternative fuels can be used as therapeutic options for the young brain after head injury. In addition to this main focus, she is interested in repeat mild head injuries as they apply to both children and young adult athletes.
