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Professor
UPMC
Ajay Niranjan, MD is a professor in the department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His clinical interest is focused on Gamma Knife radiosurgery for brain tumors, vascular malformations and functional disorders of brain. He is the director of radiosurgery research and the associate director of center of Image-guided Neurosurgery at UPMC. He also serves as the director of UPMC Brain Mapping Center
Dr. Niranjan received his medical training at the King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India from 1980 to 1985, graduating with a MBBS degree. Dr. Niranjan completed his neurological surgery residency 1992. Dr. Niranjan joined the University of Pittsburgh as a fellow in image-guided neurosurgery in 1997 and completed his fellowship in 2000. He joined the faculty of neurological surgery in July of 2000.
Dr. Niranjan’s major research interest is the analysis of clinical outcomes of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for a variety of indications. His radiosurgery research interests include the development of strategies to enhance the effect of radiosurgery on brain tumors. His laboratory has studied the radiobiological effects of radiation on brain-tumor microenvironment and has evaluated the effects of radiation on neural stem cells implantation in the brain. His other research interest is in the development of pre-surgical brain mapping using magnetoencephalography (MEG).