Shahab asgharzadeh (sasgharzadeh@chla.usc.edu) received his B.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 1992 with a specialization in genetic engineering. He obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois, followed by a hematology-oncology fellowship at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) in 2001. Since 2005, he has been an assistant professor of pediatrics and pathology at the University of Southern California, and a physician-scientist at the Saban Research Institute at CHLA. His research focuses on the pathogenesis of neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma, which involves the identification of risk groups using microarray technologies. He is the recipient of career development awards from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), St. Baldricks Foundation, and Stop Cancer Foundation. He is also a coprincipal investigator on the National Institutes of Health-sponsored TARGET project. He has served on the Children's Oncology Group Neuroblastoma Biology Committee since 2006 and is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Association of Cancer Research.