News

May 2026

Come work with us!

The Ostrom Lab is current hiring for muliple positions:<ol><li>An experienced research analyst to join our team focused on identifying risk factors for primary and metastatic brain tumors. This role involves providing leadership and expertise in conducting complex research activities, including planning, organizing, conducting, and communicating multiple research epidemiological studies. Please apply via Duke Careers.</li><li>A highly motivated Clinical Research Coordinator to lead day-to-day operations across multiple study teams. Please apply via Duke Careers</li></ol>

May 2026

May is Brain Tumor Awareness month.

June 23 2025

Paper published in CEBP

Our paper, Atopy improves survival and decreases risk of brain metastasis in cutaneous melanoma, is published in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention!

June 15 2025

Paper published in Neuro-Oncology

Our paper, Years of life lost due to central nervous system tumor subtypes in the United States, is published in Neuro-Oncology.

June 2025

Presentation at NAACCR 2025

Quinn presented work from the Lab at the North American Association for Central Cancer Registries Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut

June 1 2025

June is Brain and Spine Metastasis Awareness Month

May 2025

Christine and Julia presented their ongoing work at the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium Annual Meeting in Durham, North Carolina

Christine presented her work on “Incidence of primary malignant brain and central nervous system tumors by global region”, and Julia presented on “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on IDH-wildtype glioblastoma survival”.

May 1 2025

May is brain tumor awareness month

March 2025

Glioblastoma meeting at Banbury Center at CSHL

Quinn attended a meeting on [Glioblastoma](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-banbury-center_thank-you-to-participants-of-glioblastoma-activity-7318000228282847234-XWC7] at the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Febuary 1 2025

Paper published in JNCI

Our paper, Grade-stratified meningioma risk among individuals who are non-Hispanic Black and interactions with male sex, is published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute!

November 2024

Christine and Quinn presented ongoing work from the Lab at the Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas

Christine presented her work on variation in glioma risk due to ancestral allele frequency differences. We also presented on variation in meningioma incidence by sex and race/ethnicity and the association between autoimmune disease and improved survival in glioblastoma

November 2024

We are hosting the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium Annual Meeting in Durham in May 2025

October 2024

Quinn and Mackenzie attened the European Association for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.

Mackenzie presented our ongoing work on the associationed between air pollition and brain tumor incidence.

October 2024

The 2024 CBTRUS statistical report is published!

May 2024

Christine and Mackenzie presented at the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium Annual Meeting in Mainz, Germany

Christine presented her work on “The Effect of Prior Varicella Zoster Infection on a Person’s Risk of Glioma Development”, while Mackenzie presented on “Multiscale Geographically Weighted Linear Regression for County-Level Glioblastoma Incidence Modeling in the United States”.
See our published meeting summary) for more information on this meeting.