Melody Lun

EDUCATION

 September 2010 – Present: MD/PhD program

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

 May 2010: BA in Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA

Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum (MMEDIC)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am currently investigating the choroid plexus transcriptome and how cerebrospinal

fluid production is regulated in light of brain development and aging.

PUBLICATIONS

Fonkem E, Lun M, Wong ET. Rare phenomenon of extracranial metastasis of

glioblastoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2011 Dec 1;29(34):4594-5.

Lun M, Lok E, Gautam S, Wu E, Wong ET. The natural history of extracranial

metastasis from glioblastoma multiforme. Journal of Neuro-oncology. 2011

Nov;105(2):261-73.

Wong ET, Gautam S, Malchow C, Lun M, Pan E, Brem S. Bevacizumab for recurrent

glioblastoma multiforme: a meta-analysis. Journal of National Comprehensive Cancer

Network. 2011 Apr;9(4):403-7.

Lehtinen MK, Zappaterra MW, Chen X, Yang YJ, Hill A, Lun M, Maynard T, Gonzalez

D, Kim S, Ye P, D’Ercole AJ, Wong ET, LaMantia AS, Walsh CA. The cerebrospinal

fluid provides a proliferative niche for neural progenitor cells. Neuron. 2011 March

10;69(5): 893-905.

PRESENTATIONS

Lun MP, Salinas V, Broadbelt KG, Steen, M, Lehtinen MK. Characterizing IGF2

availability in aging cerebrospinal fluid. AFAR Grantee Conference. Santa Barbara, CA.

June 3, 2014.

AWARDS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 American Federation of Aging Research – Glenn/AFAR Scholarship for

Research in the Biology of Aging (2013)

 American Brain Tumor Association – Medical Student Summer Fellowship (2011)