Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, United States
Soma Sengupta, M.D./Ph.D./MRCP is the Harold C. Schott Endowed Brain Tumor Molecular Therapeutics Chair; co-director, UC Brain Tumor Center; and Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation at University of Cincinnati. Soma completed her medical and doctoral training at the University of Cambridge, U.K., including research at the CNRS, Strasbourg, France. She received Membership in the Royal College of Physicians (London) before moving to the U.S. for an internship in medicine at Johns Hopkins, Residency in Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center-Harvard, and clinical and research fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Soma is board certified in Neurology and neuro-oncology. Soma was an attending at BIDMC-Harvard in neuro-oncology before moving to Emory University and the Winship Cancer Institute. Soma has been funded by R25, K12, and recently completed a K08. She has a long-standing research interest in membrane transport proteins and a major part of her lab is studying such proteins as anti-cancer targets as well as their role in development of disparate cancers. Clinically, Soma manages adult brain tumors and adult survivors of pediatric brain cancers. She has a strong clinical interest in investigator-initiated trials, to bring much needed new treatments for these patient populations.