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Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna
Dr. Ramakrishna will use the $50,000 grant to study MRI-guided focused ultrasound for subcortical gliomas.
Dr. Souweidane and Dr. Greenfield - Weill Cornell Medicine
The CBTP joins a historic undertaking in pediatric neurosurgery research.
Dr. Chris Schaffer and Dr. Theodore Schwartz at Weill Cornell Medicine BME conference 2018

A collaboration between Dr. Theodore Schwartz at Weill Cornell Medicine and Dr. Chris Schaffer at Cornell University in Ithaca has resulted in a paper in the publication Cerebral Cortex. In the paper, co-authored by Dr. Mingrui Zhao and titled “In Vivo Femtosecond Laser Subsurface Cortical Microtransections Attenuate Acute Rat Focal Seizures,” they demonstrated a new technique that used a “laser scalpel.” Their work was funded by...

Philip E. Stieg
Dr. Philip Stieg joins the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC), working together with other commissioners to promote safety from head injury for athletes.
Dr. Whitney Parker - Weill Cornell Medicine
Neurosurgical resident Whitney Parker, MD, PhD, was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Roberta Marongiu, Ph.D - Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Marongiu’s research will focus on menopause as a transition state in susceptibility to Parkinson’s disease.
Dr. Eric Elowitz - Weill Cornell Medicine
In his new role, Dr. Elowitz will oversee the quality of all neurological surgery faculty and their compliance with regulatory requirements as well as manage related administrative needs, policies, and procedures.
Mark M Souweidane, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine

Today, the peer-reviewed journal Lancet Oncology published the highly anticipated results of Dr. Mark Souweidane’s first-ever dose escalation study using convection-enhanced delivery (CED) in patients with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). The milestone Phase I clinical trial, which investigated the safety of using CED to bypass the blood-brain barrier and administer a drug directly to a brain stem tumor site, resulted in no serious adverse effects and no dose-limiting...

Dr. Mark Souweidane - Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Souweidane joins The Lancet Oncology to discuss his dose-escalation study, assessing a convection-enhanced delivery for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.

 

Michael Kaplitt, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine

In this second part of a series on Essential Tremor, Dr. Kaplitt talks about using high-intensity focused ultrasound to relieve essential tremor in a patient on CoreBrain Journal.

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