Grant Lab Team

Gerald Grant, MD, FACS
Professor of Neurosurgery
Division Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery

Dr. Grant received his MD from Stanford University in 1994 and trained as a resident in neurosurgery at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He then completed a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Seattle Children's Hospital. He entered active duty with the US Air Force and became Director of Surgical Epilepsy at Wilford Hall Medical Center and UT San Antonio. After his deployments to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Dr. Grant moved back to his alma mater at Duke University in 2006. He remained there on the faculty for 7 years as Director of Pediatric Surgical Epilepsy. He was recruited back to Stanford in 2013. Dr. Grant is committed to the treatment of children with intractable epilepsy and is an expert at state-of-the-art brain mapping techniques and awake language mapping in epilepsy patients.


Postdoctoral Scholars

Johana Carolina M. Vega Leonel, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar


Quan Zhou, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar

Quan grew up in Nanjing, China. She attended Hong Kong Baptist University for her undergraduate training where she majored in applied biology and minored in chemistry, completing an honor’s thesis investigating the acute and prolonged effects of alcohol intake on dopamine receptor expression in mice substantia nigra. Moving to the other side of the Pacific, Quan then completed both her M.S. and Ph.D. training in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her doctoral research focused on optical and photoacoustic imaging for early detection of liver and colon cancers with molecular targeting probes such as peptides and nanoparticles. Quan is currently undertaking a postdoctoral training in the Grant Lab with the goal of translating fluorescence guided neurosurgery in human brain cancer patients and enhanced drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier via tight junction protein modulation and focused ultrasound.


Research Scientist

Christy Wilson, PhD
Research Scientist

Collaborators