Noriaki Minami is a postdoctoral scholar at UCSF. His main focus is brain tumor metabolism using MR spectroscopy, which provides a better diagnostic biomarker for brain tumor. Before starting the current project at UCSF, he was working as a neurosurgeon in Japan for 6 years. His goal is finding a new diagnostic biormarker for glioma with preclinical model, then apply it to clinical setting in the future.