
Petritsch Laboratory
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Modeling brain cancer to identify new mechanisms of cell fate determination and therapeutic vulnerabilities in stem cells @StanfordNsurg @StanfordMed
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Happy to participate in the Early Career Neurosurgeon Reception at #AANS2023 along with honored guest Melanie Hayden Gephart from Stanford Neurosurgery Additional attendees include Randy D'Amico, MD, #IsabelleGermano and Walavan Sivakumar, M.D. Check us out at 6:30 pm on Sunday at the JW Marriott!


Such great experience to share our work CSHL Meetings Brain Barriers 2021 #cshlbbb ! We enjoyed all the interactions, suggestions, and shared expertise. Congratulations to the organizers for a great meeting. Stanford Neurosurgery


Incredibly honored to be awarded an Impact Award from the DOD together with terrific friend and colleague Dr. Stephen Mack (Stephen C. Mack). Together, we will develop new therapeutics for children with ependymoma. Another great collaboration between Dana-Farber + St. Jude. š„šš


.Xinnan Wang Lab and her lab, have focused on how Parkinson's leads to defects inĀ mitochondrial function. With their discoveries, there is the hope of detecting Parkinsonās in its earliest stages before symptoms start. #ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth Learn more: med.stanford.edu/neurosurgery/nā¦



What controls the morphology of #myelin sheaths to enable them to fine-tune conduction velocity? TL;DR: Calcium (Ca2+) signaling; a.k.a. natureās ultimate multitasker! Read our new pre-print to find out more, led by grad student Manasi Iyer! š§µš(1/n)

We welcome Stanford University undergraduate Brandon Bui to the Petritsch Laboratory ā supervised by our talented Dr. Lulu Xing Lulu Xing. Thank you to the Wu Tsai NeURO fellowship program for supporting Brandon. Congratulations Brandon! Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute


Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher Caitlynn Tran ā25 on her acceptance to the highly competitive Amgen Scholars Program this summer at Kyoto University. She will be conducting research under Dr. Fuyuhiko Tamanoi studying nanoparticles as cancer therapy. Amgen Scholars Global Program Office



Professor and Chair of Stanford Neurosurgery, Michael Lim, MD (Michael Lim, MD) as a discussant for Plenary Session II: Combined Oncolytic Virus and Checkpoint Inhibitor for Recurrent GBM. #AANS2023



Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, MD, FACS (DrJFM - Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda MD -) demonstrating: The ATLAS 3D Session: Inspiring Operative Moments A truly fascinating session! #AANS2023

Melanie Hayden Gephart, MD, MAS (Melanie Hayden Gephart) speaking at the AANS/CNS Sections on Tumors and Early Career Neurosurgeons (ECNS) Reception #AANS2023



#CancerNeuroscience work by the brilliant postdoc Kathryn R. Taylor published (open access) today demonstrates that malignant gliomas #DIPG #GBM recruit mechanisms of synaptic plasticity to drive cancer growth. A thread⦠(1/ ) nature.com/articles/s4158ā¦

This is what well worn #shoes of a #surgeon looks like! Almost 10 years ⦠wish I had counted the #steps they walked me around University Health Network ā¦Princess Margaret Cancer Centreā© ā¦University of Toronto Neurosurgeryā© ā¦Krembil Brain Instituteā© ā¦UHN Researchā© Hard to part with them ⦠but itās time !!
