Noah Nichols received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Wesleyan University and completed medical school training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). While at UCSF, he developed an interest in neurosurgical oncology, specifically the surgical management of low- and high-grade gliomas. Noah matched into the Mount Sinai neurosurgery residency program and is expected to graduate in 2028. He is currently interested in characterizing the murine brain tumor microenvironment before and after photodynamic therapy in collaborative project with Dr. Costas Hadjipanayis’s laboratory