Our Neurosurgery M3 Research Fellow Michael Coffin and Drs. Ngwenya and Virojanapa were awarded a Third Frontier Research Incentive Grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Ed for a 12 Month Prospective study to test the connection between MRI positioning and upper spinal cord injury detection.

Congrats to Dr. Ngwenya @surgeonsci.bsky.social for being recognized as a recipient in to top 25% of sponsored awards for the previous fiscal year.

Dr. Forbes was just featured in UC News discussing research on a new possible treatment for glioblastomas: immunostimulatory wafers to encourage cns immune responses after tumor resection. His team just won a grant from Ride Cincinnati for this research.
www.uc.edu/news/article...

Looking forward to Dr. Cheng's discussion on hospital RFP contracts versus surgeon‑led vendor models at the
AANS #SpineSummit on Feb 27. This debate hits at the heart of efficiency, autonomy and patient care. dspnspinesummit.org

Dr. Prestigiacomo, head of the Neurovascular Division, has become site PI for a new clinical trial testing non-opioid treatment for post-stroke headaches. The study is sponsored by the University of Florida.

@ufresearch.bsky.social

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Dr. Patel and colleagues were just named a Multidisciplinary Team of Distinction by the North American Skull Base Society. This title recognizes teams that have notable experts from different specialties who diagnose, treat and manage skull base conditions.

Registration is open for the 2026 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting! Join us May 1–4 in San Antonio, Texas, for innovation, collaboration and transformation in neurosurgery. Register at annualmeeting.aans.org #AANS2026

Congrats to M2 student Jorge Robles Solivan for winning the Basic Science Outstanding Merit Award at the UC College of Medicine Research and Service Symposium with his project "Cortical Spreading Depolarizations Increase Aquaporin-4 Expression in a Rat Model of Traumatic Brain Injury"

UC Neurosurgery was just approved as a participating site testing medication treatment for TBI.

#research #neurosurgery #neurotrauma #TBI

Check it out: Dr. Virojanapa was featured on @wlwt.bsky.social for operating on a patient following a complex spinal fracture. Read the story here on UC News:

Congrats to Dr. Ngwenya for being selected as Vice President-Elect of The National Neurotrauma Society.
@neurotrauma.org

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Andaluz who was chosen as the Chief of Staff-elect for UC Medical Center. He has been elected to represent the interests of the medical staff to the UC Health Board and administration.

Congrats to the new Dr. Andrew Gaulden, UC Neuroscience PhD student, supported at his dissertation defense by his wife Dr. Amber Gaulden, UC Neurosurgery Resident.

Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Faith Best, PhD!

Congrats to Dr. Ngwenya, @nsurgeonscience.bsky.social , on being named a 2025-26 @elamprogram.bsky.social Fellow! This program promotes and prepares women for executive leadership positions in academic medicine.

New CSNS position statement co-first authored by our resident Kyle McGrath on safety of electric bikes and scooters was just adopted by AANS/CNS. #neurosurgery #neurotrauma

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Congrats to Dr. Ishita Basu on being recognized by the UC College of Medicine Office of Research in their Gallery of Awardees! Featured researchers have been awarded external grants of $100,000 a year or more.

Check out this new first author publication from the @cincyneurosurgery.bsky.social's first Neurosurgery Graduate Program Student Faith Best, written with @nsurgeonscience.bsky.social and Jed Hartings.

Faith's next stop: Dissertation Defense!

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