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Sanjeev Herr @sanjeevherr.bsky.social · 5d

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!

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 8d

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

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.

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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 12d

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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UCSF Radiation Oncology @ucsfradonc.bsky.social · 12d

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

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UCSF @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social · 13d

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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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 15d

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...

The 10 finalists in this year's UCSF Postdoc Slam stand together on the steps of Genetech Hall at UCSF's Mission Bay campus. Photo by Noah Berger.

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 21d

Watch the full video about HIFU for essential tremor here: youtu.be/VdvmwiJAk-A

Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Essential Tremor | UCSF Neurosurgery

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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The Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) @neuroonc.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 27d

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 🧪 🧠🟦

Soon-to-be Dr. Ilina Bhaya-Grossman stands behind a podium presenting her PhD exit seminar at the Exploratorium.

Ilina Bhaya-Grossman presenting her talk. The title of her slide says: We perceive our native language effortlessly. The left side of her slide shows an silhouette of a person speaking, and the right side shows several graphs representing how frequencies, loudness, sounds (phonemes), syllables, and words ultimately help the brain convert air pressure fluctuations into meaning.

Ilina Bhaya-Grossman (right) with UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang, MD (left).

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 29d

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 🧪 🧠📈

UCSF neuroscientist Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, seated at a bench in his lab.

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Sanjeev Herr @sanjeevherr.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

Flyer for Ilina Bhaya-Grossman's talk showing a colorful illustration of a brain.

Your Brain on Language
Sounds, Signals, Speech!
With Ilina Bhaya-Grossman
Advised by Edward F. Chang

Thursday, September 4, 2025
6:30-7:30 pm

The Kanbar Forum
Exploratorium at Pier 15
San Francisco

How does your brain turn sound into meaning? Every time we hear someone speak, our brain pulls off a remarkable feat — transforming vibrations in the air into words, sentences, and ideas we instantly understand. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how scientists study this question and how curiosity, data, and teamwork come together to reveal the answers.

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EANO @eanoassociation.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣 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

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Aug 15

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 🧪

Two-panel graphic showing side-by-side images of UCSF's Parnassus Heights campus and UCSF neuro-oncologist Maya Graham, MD, PhD.

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

Illustration depicting a person with cervical spondylotic myelopathy who attained care independence postoperatively. Art by Melissa Logies.

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UCSF @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social · Aug 14

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...

Treating Chronic Pain is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.

www.nytimes.com

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

Award graphic showing a photo of UCSF neurosurgeon Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, president-elect of the Society for Neuro-Oncology.

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Aug 5

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... 🧪 🧠🟦

UCSF neurologist and pain medicine specialist Prasad Shrivalkar, MD, PhD, standing in front of a whiteboard. Photo: Anastasiia Sapon.

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Jul 31

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...

Meet the Little Brain Region that Helps You Say What’s on Your Mind

Researchers discovered that a different part of the brain handles stringing sounds and words together into coherent sentences. The information could help people who have had strokes and lost the abili...

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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UCSF Health @ucsfhealth.bsky.social · Jul 29

👏 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! 🎉

UCSF Health Ranks Among Nation's Best for 2025-26

U.S. News & World Report ranked UCSF No. 1 in CA & Top 20 in the nation.

www.ucsfhealth.org

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Madhumita Sushil @madhumitasushil.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Jul 23

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 🧠📈

Graphic that depicts an overview of the study in which UCSF researchers modeled and optimized DBS settings to improve walking in patients with Parkinson's, identifying key insights abut the neurophysiology of walking along the way.

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changlabucsf.bsky.social @changlabucsf.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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