Neuro-oncologist Jana Portnow, M.D. (pronouns: she/her), professor of medical oncology and co-director of City of Hope’s Brain Tumor Program, is a physician-researcher who has expertise in early-phase development of leading-edge therapies for brain tumors and has designed and conducted numerous clinical trials.
 
She has obtained millions of dollars of research funding from the National Institutes of Health, including most recently as co-principal investigator of an NIH grant through which City of Hope became part of the National Cancer Institute’s newly-formed Glioblastoma Therapeutics Network, a consortium of academic brain tumor centers that collaborate on preclinical and clinical studies to find better treatments for gliomas. Dr. Portnow has reviewed grant applications as a member of the NIH Clinical Oncology Study Section. She currently serves as Vice Chair person of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s panel on Guidelines for the Treatment of CNS Cancers.