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New in Scientific Reports: Researchers led by Takahide Nejo & Okada Lab @ UCSF explore alternative splicing events as a source of new potential tumor-specific, cell surface antigen targets for antibodies & CAR T-cell therapies to treat #glioma: nature.com/articles/s4159… #Immunotherapy

Congratulations Mulki Mehari, Joshua Bernstock, UCSF Neurosurgery, and Brigham and Women's Neurosurgery for their work demonstrating a survival benefit associated with the neurophysiological drug Gabapentin in newly diagnosed #Glioblastoma, #cancerneuroscience. nature.com/articles/s4146…

This important study included a large annotated dataset and biomarker analysis at UCSF Health and MGB with patients receiving a median dose of 495 mg ([IQR] = 300–900) for a median period of 180 days (IQR = 59.5–614.0), setting the stage for future clinical trials.

Go behind the scenes with our UC San Francisco neurosurgery residents 🧠🔬 From the OR to the research lab, see what it's like to train at one of the top programs in the country: youtu.be/1HZxJSv9iCM Sravani Kondapavulur John UCSF School of Medicine

Wonderful time at my first ASCO conference. Thrilled to have given an oral presentation on my work and so thankful for the merit award I received in honor of Joe Hogan! Was great to catch up with my incredible lab mates as well! #ASCO2025

Congratulations to the UCSF Neurosurgery ⁦UCSF Neurosurgery⁩ softball team who braved cross country flight delays, and difficult weather conditions to show out! ⁦John⁩ ⁦Manish Aghi, MD PhD⁩ ⁦Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA⁩ ⁦NREF⁩

New in Science Advances, Mulki Mehari, Annette Molinaro, PhD, Shawn Hervey-Jumper, and their colleagues present a new AI-based clinical trial enrollment tool that provides recommendations for personalized for each patient’s circumstances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr

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

A big congratulations to our outstanding residency graduates John, John K. 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

New paper with Shawn Hervey-Jumper and Vardhaan Ambati showing 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.

Excited to share work I conducted with Shawn Hervey-Jumper and David Brang at UCSF Neurosurgery! Using one of the largest ECoG glioma datasets, we identified distinct electrophysiologic signatures of language-critical sites in glioma-infiltrated cortex. #neurosurgery #glioma #ECoG

In @NatComms, Takahide Nejo & Okada Lab @ UCSF worked with Saritha & Shawn Hervey-Jumper to show how the complex interaction between #glioblastoma cells, and immune cells suppresses pro-inflammatory immune responses and drives tumor growth: nature.com/articles/s4146… Cathryn Cadwell

We’re honored to be named among the top two neurosurgery programs nationwide and Best in the West by U.S. News & World Report! 🎉 It's a privilege caring for our patients and their families, and we thank our entire team for their hard work and dedication. UCSF Health ucsfhealth.org/lp/us-news-2025

✔️Touring drummer at 17 ✔️Community college at 25 ✔️Brain cancer at 29 Advocate. Researcher. Co-author. Now I’m finally going back to finish my bachelor’s🎓 Apparently you can do patient-led research without a degree—but I’m getting one anyway. Hoping to graduate by 50.