Maya Graham, MD, PhD

Maya S. Graham, MD PhD, is a neuro-oncologist and physician scientist in the Brain Tumor Center at UCSF. She grew up in Chicago and obtained her MD and PhD at Northwestern University, where she studied the role of neurodevelopmental pathways in glioma stem cell biology. She then pursued a residency in neurology at the Mass General Brigham program at Harvard followed by a neuro-oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she remained as junior faculty while completing postdoctoral research with Ingo Mellinghoff, MD. Maya is excited to start her lab at UCSF, developing novel stem cell-based glioma models and studying the epigenetic basis of glioma formation and progression.

Outside the lab, Maya enjoys the barely contained chaos of life with two young sons and her husband. Before this chaos, she was a well-rounded person with hobbies that included singing, traveling, cooking, and boxing (against punching bags only!).