Welcome Jang Won “Jon” Yoon, MD, to UCSF Neurosurgery and the @ucsfhealth.bsky.social Spine Center! He’s pioneering endoscopic spine techniques and AI-driven outcome research. Learn more ➡️ neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/news/qa-dr-j... #neurosurgery #SurgSky

New in @nature.com, @labnowakowski.bsky.social uses barcoded lineage tracing to reveal how different cell types in the human brain form, identifying a transition during development when some progenitors shift from making excitatory to inhibitory neurons. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #studyBRAIN 🧠🟦

More powerful tools for understanding the brain. 🧠🔍 Today, comprehensive, cross-species developing brain cell atlases were released to help advance health and disease research. 🧵 #studyBRAIN #BICAN

One-third of patients with epilepsy do not become seizure-free with medication. If anti-seizure medications don’t work, surgery is another option. Read more about the different surgical treatments for drug-resistant epilepsy: www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/09... #EpilepsyAwareness @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

On the cover of the Journal of Neurosurgery, UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang, MD, PGY6 resident Anthony Lee, MD, PhD & team show that transposition approaches, especially with a pericranium sling, may result in more durable pain control for trigeminal neuralgia: thejns.org/view/journal...

Congratulations to @ucsfhealth.bsky.social neurosurgeon @herveyjumper.bsky.social on receiving the Guha Award from the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors & @neuroonc.bsky.social! 🎉 This award recognizes his lab’s research advances in cancer neuroscience and his dedication to mentoring. #2025CNS #CNSConnects

We’re excited to be in sunny L.A. for #2025CNS! Check out all the incredible work that our faculty, residents, and medical students are doing: neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-ne... @herveyjumper.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social #Neurosurgery

I’m thrilled to report on work I led with Dr. Shawn Hervey-Jumper and Dr. Todd Hollon which shows that we can forecast where glioblastoma will recur even at time of initial resection. It’s wonderful to see all the work I conducted during my research year @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social come together!

UCSF neurosurgeon @herveyjumper.bsky.social & his @umich.edu colleagues have developed an intraoperative tool called FastGlioma that uses AI to help neurosurgeons see in real-time where tumor cells have infiltrated brain tissue. 🧪 braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/how-ai-... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

See highlights of @ucsfradonc.bsky.social participation at the 2025 @astro-org.bsky.social conference starting tomorrow: cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2025/09... #ASTRO2025 #UCSF

Amazing team swim w/ @sjohnliu.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social to support glioblastoma & pediatric cancer research- $600K+ raised at SF event! Funds raised goes directly to local cancer research institutions, @ucsfhealth.bsky.social Children's, @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Brain Tumor Center

Anti-seizure meds don’t work for 1 in 3 epilepsy patients. UCSF experts are closing the gap with surgery and breakthrough devices that can change lives. tiny.ucsf.edu/HzE2SS

Congrats to all the postdocs who competed in the #UCSFPostDocSlam! And a special shoutout to Ritwik Vatsyayan, PhD, who told us about his research in the @shirvalkarlab.bsky.social working to rewire how the brain responds to chronic pain. #Neuroskyence #SciComm 🧪 www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/09...

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is an incision-less surgical procedure used to treat essential tremor by lesioning the brain pathway involved with tremor generation. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social neurosurgeon @doriswang.bsky.social explains that this leads to lasting tremor reduction.

Who’s ready for 2025 WFNOS/SNO Annual meeting in Honolulu?! Register by Sept 19 to get early bird pricing and join colleagues from around the world in advancing #neurooncology. soc-neuro-onc.org/SNO2025

Great to hear about Ilina Bhaya-Grossman's research in the @changlabucsf.bsky.social last week at the Exploratorium! Her PhD work has focused on how the brain processes word boundaries, which are incredibly difficult to identify in a foreign language. @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social 🧪 🧠🟦

Congratulations to Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, on being named a finalist for the prestigious Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists! 🎉 He was selected for his groundbreaking research shaping the future of neuroscience and medicine. stemcell.ucsf.edu/news/tomasz-... @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social 🧪 🧠📈

What an incredible month it has been completing my sub-I at @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social ! I learned so much, met so many incredible people, and I had a great time doing it. I am truly grateful to have had this opportunity. #Neurosurgery #Match2026

Interested in learning how the brain turns sound into meaning? Hear from bioengineering PhD student Ilina Bhaya-Grossman about her research in the @changlabucsf.bsky.social as part of the Exploratorium's After Dark series. #SciComm 🧠📈 @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

📣 New journal launch! Neuro-Oncology Pediatrics is live — an open-access journal advancing global research and care for children & young adults with brain tumors. A joint EANO & @neuroonc.bsky.social initiative. 🔗 Read more: www.eano.eu/about/news/n... #NeuroOncology @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

We're excited to welcome Maya Graham, MD, PhD, to the team! She specializes in seeing adult patients with brain tumors, and her #glioma research focuses on studying how epigenetics drives tumor initiation in cerebral organoids: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/physici... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social 🧪

On the cover of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, Nitin Agarwal, MD, Praveen Mummaneni, MD, MBA & their colleagues report that surgery to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy helped patients relying on others for care return to independence: thejns.org/spine/view/j... #MedSky #SurgSky

Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 Americans. @nytimes.com on @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social research, shows it’s possible to stop that pain where it starts: in the brain. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/h...

A big congratulations to @herveyjumper.bsky.social on being elected President-Elect of @neuroonc.bsky.social! 🎉 He will be the sixth neurosurgeon and fourth @ucsfhealth.bsky.social physician to serve in this role. #UCSFProud @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

One of the biggest challenges to treating chronic pain lies in reliably measuring how much pain someone is feeling. But @shirvalkarlab.bsky.social has shown that they can predict when someone’s going to be in significant pain by tracking their brain activity: magazine.ucsf.edu/can-we-train... 🧪 🧠🟦

Research led by @changlabucsf.bsky.social at @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social identifies a new, vital role for a brain region called the the middle precentral gyrus (mPrCG) in planning and coordinating the muscle movements required to speak. #Neuroskyence 🧪 www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/07...

We’re honored to be named among the top two neurosurgery programs nationwide and the Best in the West by @usnews.com! 🎉 It's a privilege caring for our patients and their families, and we thank our entire team for hard work and dedication. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social www.ucsfhealth.org/lp/us-news-2...

👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉

Looking for a motivated postdoc to join our team for research in multimodal foundation models for medicine! I'll be at #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP next week, please reach if you you are interested in learning more! Details here: docit.ucsf.edu/news/were-hi... @aclmeeting.bsky.social

A new study led by @doriswang.bsky.social's lab developed a systematic way to quantify key aspects of gait in patients with #Parkinsons and used machine learning to identify personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) settings to improve walking: www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/07... @ucsfhealth.bsky.social 🧠📈

Our latest research on the neural basis of speech-motor sequencing is now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Check out this high-level explainer video and read the full paper here: t.co/YKJlabr3yb

"A transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional genetic atlas dissects neurofibromin function in the peripheral nervous system" now in @pnas.org Harish Vasudevan Lab @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A new @nathumbehav.nature.com study from @changlabucsf.bsky.social identifies a key role for the middle precentral gyrus in coordinating the muscle movements required to speak, challenging the longstanding view that Broca's area controls this process: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

Join us and the entire brain tumor community in raising awareness about the most common, treatment-resistant brain cancer and supporting the research efforts into developing improved therapies. Support our work at UCSF: giving.ucsf.edu/fund/brain-t... #btsm #GBMDay @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Fantastic profile of Dr. Michael Oldham @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social | Gene networks decode human brain architecture from health to glioma www.eurekalert.org/news-release... via @eurekalert.bsky.social

Congratulations to @herveyjumper.bsky.social for being named this year's recipient of the Abhijit Guha Award! 🎉 This award recognizes his accomplishments as a neurosurgeon-scientist and his role as a mentor in the field of neuro-oncology. #SNO2025 @neuroonc.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

People with clinical depression have limited options if meds don't work for them. One technology that has long been on the horizon is #deepbrainstimulation. Elie Dolgin did a deep dive on the most cutting-edge versions of these brain implants🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/deep-brain-s...

In @natcomms.nature.com, Takahide Nejo, PhD & the Okada lab worked with Saritha Krishna, PhD & @herveyjumper.bsky.social to show how the complex interaction between #glioblastoma and immune cells suppresses pro-inflammatory immune responses and drives tumor growth: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Please join us in welcoming our new class of neurosurgery and neuro-oncology fellows to the team! 👋 @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

New paper with @herveyjumper.bsky.social and Vardhaan Ambati! It shows that causal (DCS+) language cortex in glioma patients has greater ECoG information encoding (higher entropy and linguistic decoding). DCS+ sites showed stronger oscillations and high gamma, enabling prediction of DCS sites.

Looking for a motivated postdoc to work at the intersection of multimodal foundation models and medicine! If you're excited about exploring real-world data and transforming clinical care, please apply! @ucsfdocit.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Very excited to share our newest publication on identifying neurophysiological signatures of improved gait using bidirectional DBS devices!

A big congratulations to our outstanding residency graduates John Andrews, MD, John Yue, MD, and Tom Wozny, MD! 🎉 Please join us in wishing them the best in the next steps of their promising careers as neurosurgeons. #UCSFGrads #UCSFProud #neurosurgery

Happy to share our latest study led by Tanner Dixon and our team @ucsfhealth.bsky.social and @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social out today in Nature BME! Movement Responsive, AI programmed, BCI-aDBS improves naturalistic movements and reduces excessive movements at rest in PD. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New in npj Parkinson's Disease, @doriswang.bsky.social's lab presents an AI approach for identifying personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) settings to improve walking. The findings lay the groundwork for adaptive DBS systems that adjust in real-time: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪

We're proud to be the only California hospital @childrenstumor.bsky.social recognized as both a comprehensive NF-1 and schwannomatosis center. Our adult clinic works closely with the pediatric NF-1 clinic to seamlessly transition patients to adult care. ucsfh.org/3TwvsHh

How is genetic testing affecting the diagnosis & management of gliomas? Watch Drs. Jennie Taylor, Shawn Hervey-Jumper & Harish Vasudevan, discuss treating different tumor subtypes with surgery & targeted therapies in our Community #GrandRounds: youtu.be/UvRtuqz_fwA #MedSky @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Congratulations to graduating neurosurgery chief resident John Andrews, MD, who will be starting a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at @childrensphila.bsky.social! 🎉🎓 #UCSFGrads #UCSFProud

Congratulations to graduating neurosurgery chief resident John Yue, MD, who will be staying in our department next fall as an assistant professor working with the neurotrauma team at @zsfgcare.bsky.social! 🎉🎓 #UCSFGrads #UCSFProud

Congratulations to graduating neurosurgery chief resident Thomas Wozny, MD, who will be starting a spine fellowship at the University of Miami! 🎉🎓 #UCSFGrads #UCSFProud