Elias Sayour, MD, PHD

University of Florida; Gainesville, FL – Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics

Dr. Sayour trained at Duke University where he completed a pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship and NIH research fellowship in cancer biology and developmental therapeutics. He enrolled in the Duke University Graduate School and completed his Ph.D. Dr. Sayour has been involved in translating bench work into clinical trials governing the development of dendritic cell vaccines with adoptively transferred cytotoxic T cells against recurrent medulloblastoma. He has also started an integrative pediatric immunotherapy working group at the University of Florida that includes surgeons, clinicians, veterinarians, and pre-clinical scientists working to advance novel directed therapeutics against refractory malignancies. Their goals are to identify novel antigen targets and construct robust immunotherapeutic treatments against these malignancies.