UF Health Neurosurgeon Awarded $38 Million Grant To Lead National Stroke Prevention Trial
The National Institutes of Health awarded a $38 million, five-year grant to Brian Hoh, M.D., M.B.A., the University of Florida’s chair of neurosurgery, to test two new prospective treatments for symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis, a leading cause of ischemic stroke worldwide.
New Test Would Use DNA to Find Brain Tumors, Cancer
It’s being called a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Researchers have developed a blood test that can detect brain tumors early, but that’s not the only thing this new test can do. Brain cancer: Two words no one ever wants to hear, but for those who do, “Remarkable resilience is something that we […]
UF Neurosurgery Chair Elected President of Congress of Neurological Surgeons
University of Florida neurosurgery chair Brian Hoh, M.D., MBA, has been elected the 2020-21 president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, one of the largest international neurosurgical societies, with over 9,800 members. Two other UF Health neurosurgeons, Daniel Hoh, M.D., and Maryam Rahman, M.D., also have been elected to leadership positions in the CNS: Daniel Hoh will serve […]
UF Researchers Ask, ‘What if Oncologists Thought Like Ecologists?’
What do wildlife and cancer cells have in common? Quite a lot, argues a new article authored by University of Florida researchers. The article is the latest piece of scholarship to emerge from a decade-long collaboration among three scientists: Brent Reynolds, a professor in the Lillian S. Wells department of neurosurgery at UF Health; Madan […]
UF Named New Member of Prestigious Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
When Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP, joined the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of neurosurgery in 2016, he had a big goal for the university: become a member of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. On July 16, 2020, Gururangan achieved that objective when UF was named one of four new PBTC member institutions along with […]
Twelve Leading Medical Centers Unite to Form Brain Tumor Research Collaborative
The UF Health-led ReMission Alliance Against Brain Tumors announced the names of twelve partner institutions from across the U.S. and Canada that are teaming up to develop novel treatments to vastly improve quality of life and long-term survival for patients fighting malignant brain tumors. Internationally recognized neuro-oncologists and brain tumor investigators from the twelve partner […]
Combating Cancer
Scientists are using powerful magnets to learn how to better detect, treat and track the second leading cause of death worldwide, cancer. Dr. Duane Mitchell, co-director of the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy and director of the UF Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, shared his findings with Fields, a magazine about high […]
Fourth Annual Lemon Ball Helps Fund Childhood Cancer Research
UF Health’s Brain Tumor Immunotherapy program will benefit from the annual Lemon Ball organized by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer. All of the proceeds raised at the event will help fund Dr. Catherine Flores, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, brain cancer research. Learn more about Fourth Annual Lemon Ball Helps […]
An Alzheimer’s Study Used Electrostimulation to Evoke Vivid Memories – Here’s What It Could Mean
A group of researchers tested the use of deep brain stimulation to improve memory and cognition in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (ADvance trial). While the long-term benefit on memory was not as robust as expected, almost half of the patients reported recalling past experiences. This is a notable observation as it occurred in individuals with […]
UF Researcher Receives $250,000 Grant to Combat Pediatric Cancer
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation awarded Dr. Catherine Flores, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, with the Innovation Grant. The two-year grant will help her research into the use of stem cell therapy to fight against brain tumors in children. “The diagnosis of a tumor is life-changing for not […]