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UCSF Neurosurgery
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Department of Neurological Surgery @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social. We focus on providing the best possible care for our patients, alongside research efforts to develop better treatments.
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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
Chief resident Anthony Lee, MD, PhD (right) with medical student Abraham Dada (left) and PGY2 Robert Osorio, MD (center). UCSF neurosurgeon Rajiv Saigal, MD, PhD (left) with PGY1 resident Jennifer Guidera, MD, PhD (center left), PGY6 resident Clara Starkweather, MD, PhD (center right), and PGY1 resident Michael Baumgartner, MD, PhD (right). The group of residents and faculty who participated in the Saturday morning spine workshop. PGY4 resident Alex Aabedi, MD, (right) and PGY3 resident John Bernabei, MD, PhD (center) with UCSF spine neurosurgeon Nima Alan, MD (right).
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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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

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December 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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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!
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#UCSFProud @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
Graphic announcing Edward Chang, MD, Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD, and Hideho Okada, MD, PhD being among Clarivate's 2025 Highly Cited Researchers.
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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...
Computational Cancer Community (C3) Monthly Meeting
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December 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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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...
Closeup of the 2025 Gruber Neuroscience Prize awarded to Edward F. Chang for the fundamental expansion of human knowledge. The award is engraved with a drawing of neurons that is based on the work on Cajal. Graphic showing The Transmitter's logo that announces Shailee Jain, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California San Francisco, as a Rising Star in Neuroscience 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The lab was well represented at #SNO2025 in Honolulu spanning 4 presentations. Congratulations, team! @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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
Graphic announcing that the Liu lab, pictured here in the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, is hiring a postdoctoral researcher.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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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

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November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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
Susan Chang, MD, being presented with the 2025 Lisa DeAngelis Award for Excellence in Neuro-Oncology Education, on stage during the first plenary session of the conference.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Nature research paper: Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe

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Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe - Nature
The human superior temporal gyrus processes acoustic–phonetic properties of speech regardless of whether the language is familiar to the listener, but only encodes word boundaries and language-specific sound sequences if the language is known.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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This week on the pod:

💊 A molecule that delivers insulin through the skin
🧠 How language lights up the brain, whatever the tongue
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Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 19 November 2025
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November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The promise of TIL therapy for glioblastoma

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The promise of TIL therapy for glioblastoma
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy has demonstrated efficacy in refractory melanoma and durable responses in lung cancer. Glioblastoma presents distinct challenges for immunotherapy, includin...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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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
Graphic announcing the 7th Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology Societies and the 30th Annual Meeting & Education Day of the Society for Neuro-Oncology that shows a beach in Hawaii.
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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
Jang Won “Jon” Yoon, MD.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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 🧠🟦
Inhibitory neurons labeled with markers for SCGN and PAX6.
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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
Illustration depicting a craniotomy, one of the surgical treatment options for epilepsy.
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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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...
Journal cover of the October issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery. Illustration depicting superior cerebellar artery (SCA) conflict in trigeminal neuralgia and three techniques for microvascular decompression of the trigeminal nerve: interposition, Teflon transposition, and sling transposition. Art by Melissa Logies.
October 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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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
Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, (left) and Brain Nahed, MD, (right) pose for a photo with the award certificate. Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, at the podium presenting his talk. The big screen showing UCSF neurosurgeon Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, at the podium delivering his presentation.
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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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
The Los Angeles skyline and palm trees below a banner for the 2025 CNS Annual Meeting being held October 11-15, 2025.
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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!
October 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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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-...
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Graphic showing an MRI scan of a low grade glioma below a headline that says, How AI is Changing Brain Tumor Surgery. Subheading says: High-tech imaging approaches allow neurosurgeons to interpret tissue samples during surgery to remove previously invisible malignant cells. Quote card showing Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, a UCSF neurosurgeon and the Mitchel S. Berger, MD Endowed Professor of Neurosurgery, during an awake brain surgery. He is quoted saying: With this new technology, we can deliver safer, more complete tumor resections.
September 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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
UCSF Radiation Oncology Specialists Share Innovative Research and Clinical Expertise at National Radiation Oncology Conference | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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September 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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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
September 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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
If Anti-Seizure Meds Don’t Work for Epilepsy, Can Surgery Help?
Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and the promising new surgical and technological treatments available.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM