Dr. James Hansen is Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine, Chief of the Gamma Knife Program in Therapeutic Radiology, and Co-Director of the Yale Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Body Radiotherapy (SRS/SBRT) Fellowship Program. His clinical practice and teaching focuses on tumors of the central nervous system, and his laboratory investigates mechanisms of autoimmunity with the goal of strategically developing cell-penetrating variants of autoantibodies for use in molecular therapy. He founded the Yale startup Nucleicon to advance his research findings in autoimmunity towards the clinic."