Mark Youngblood is currently a 6th year neurosurgery resident at Northwestern University, and is interested in using spatial and single-cell approaches to gain new insights on brain tumor biology and therapeutic vulnerabilities. He completed the MD/PhD program at Yale University under the guidance of Murat Gunel, where his thesis focused on epigenetic changes that underlie meningioma formation and tumor progression. He is currently completing an infolded clinical fellowship in skull base surgery, and working in the laboratory of Amy Heimberger to study the immunological features of meningiomas.