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Vasisht Srinivasan, MD – UW Medicine Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds: 1/18/23

Watch Dr. Vasisht Srinivasan, Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, present “In the air, on land, and sea: transporting the neurocritical patient” at Grand Rounds on…

Levitt/Fillingham mentee awarded Mary Gates Research Scholarship

Congratulations to Neethi Belur who has been awarded a prestigious Mary Gates Research Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 for her work in the SANS lab using computational fluid dynamics under the…

Improving Neurosurgical Education

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Brain-computer interfaces could change the world—but at what cost?

Dr. Andrew Ko and Dr. Nancy Jecker (Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at UW) have co-authored an article discussing the ethical implications of Brain-computer interfaces (BCI), technologies…

New blood test can detect ‘toxic’ protein years before Alzheimer’s symptoms emerge, study shows

Dr. Andrew Ko is part of a research team that has developed a test to measure levels of amyloid beta oligomers in blood samples. Oligomers are amyloid beta proteins that misfold and clump together…