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Grateful to our entire team at UCSF for our department's amazing year! From personalized deep brain stimulation for chronic pain and Parkinson’s gait to new immunotherapy targets for brain tumors, check out the top stories of 2025: neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/news/year-in... #UCSFProud #YearInReview 🧠🟦 🧪

UCSF #neurosurgery resident Clara Starkweather, MD, PhD, on how a sub-internship can help you choose a residency program. This one-month rotation provides an opportunity to work with closely with our faculty and see what it’s like to do your residency at UCSF: meded.ucsf.edu/current-stud... #MedEd

Emergency departments and trauma centers now see more patients with more severe injuries from e-bike accidents. In @nytimes.com, how a Marin County teen’s accident has led to new state laws aiming to keep riders and pedestrians safer: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m... @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Our #neurosurgery residents practiced surgical approaches for treating spinal deformities, severe back pain, and spinal tumors during our recent Spine Lab! This annual workshop provides hands-on training to help them refine their skills by working with our expert faculty and one another. #SurgSky

How does the brain build itself? 🧠📈 Join us on Dec. 9, 10-12pm PT for a webinar presenting the findings from 12 papers mapping brain development in new detail. 🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_phxk87APQh-kgRYqp0jO5Q#/registration Image: Jasiek Krzysztofiak/@nature.com

Proud to have three @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social faculty members from our department make it on this year's list of Highly Cited Researchers from @clarivate.com! clarivate.com/highly-cited... #UCSFProud @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Join us Monday, Dec. 8 at 10am to hear from David Raleigh, faculty / PI for the Brain Tumor Center on "Molecular classification of meningioma for clinical risk stratification and therapeutic innovation" @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social calendar.ucsf.edu/event/comput...

A big year for the @changlabucsf.bsky.social at #SfN25! Congratulations to Edward Chang, MD, who was awarded this year’s Gruber Neuroscience Prize, and to @shaileejain.bsky.social, who was named one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social's Rising Stars in Neuroscience. www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

The lab was well represented at #SNO2025 in Honolulu spanning 4 presentations. Congratulations, team! @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social

The Liu lab is now recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study brain tumor biology using advanced functional #genomics techniques. Apply now: postdocs.ucsf.edu/postdoctoral... #PostdocJobs #ScienceJobs #AcademicJobs @sjohnliu.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

In @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025, we recognize 25 early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience. #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience bit.ly/4rnFnyQ

A huge congratulations to Susan Chang, MD, for receiving the 2025 Lisa DeAngelis Award for Excellence in Neuro-Oncology Education! 🎉🥇The award recognizes her extraordinary impact on training the next generation of brain tumor researchers. #SNO2025 #WFNOS @neuroonc.bsky.social

Nature research paper: Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe go.nature.com/4r9HExe

This week on the pod: 💊 A molecule that delivers insulin through the skin 🧠 How language lights up the brain, whatever the tongue go.nature.com/4raJ9vd

The promise of TIL therapy for glioblastoma www.cell.com/trends/cance... authors.elsevier.com/a/1m5yH8Z12y... @dukeneurosurgery.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social

We're looking forward to reconnecting with our colleagues next week at #SNO2025! Check out the full list of presentations from our team of researchers at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-ex... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social @neuroonc.bsky.social

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... 🧠📈 🧪