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News
April 19, 2013
Groundbreaking project in which a woman with quadriplegia took a bite of chocolate using a robot arm has been selected to receive one of the Clinical Research Forum’s Annual Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards.
April 19, 2013
Peter C. Gerszten, MD, MPH, professor of neurological surgery and radiation oncology and director of the department's percutaneous spine service, formally installed as the Peter E. Sheptak Professor of Neurological Surgery, April 18.
March 25, 2013
Award presented annually by the University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association to an outstanding non-alumnus who undertook residency training at the university.
February 20, 2013
Department vice chairman of research receives official designation in ceremony marked with lecture on neurochemical mechanisms in traumatic brain injury.
February 13, 2013
Department chairman and head of cerebrovascular neurosurgery talks about cerebral aneurysm treatment options in online feature article.
January 15, 2013
Department chairman receives official designation from School of Medicine Arthur S. Levine, MD, in ceremony marked with lecture on central nervous system research.
December 16, 2012
University of Pittsburgh research team help quadriplegic maneuver a mind-controlled, human-like robot arm.
November 19, 2012
Wall Street Journal article talks about efforts to improve the diagnosis and care of concussions in teens and children.
October 10, 2012
Pediatric neurosurgery chief receives National Brain Tumor Society award for recently published peptide vaccine therapy paper.
October 5, 2012
Neuroapoptosis and Translational Therapeutics Laboratory to focus on basic pathophysiological mechanisms in neurological disorders.
July 30, 2012
UPMC Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery marks silver anniversary of first patient treatment of novel, game-changing brain surgery in North America. (See also Gamma Knife surgical team marks 25 years since first test in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.)
July 24, 2012
Neurosurgery chief resident recognized at Pennsylvania Neurosurgical Society Scientific Meeting for report on white matter changes in brain metastases treatment.
July 19, 2012
All Things Considered report looks into studies on how the brain's premotor cortex works.
July 17, 2012
U.S. News & World Report annual best hospital article ranks University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery among top 10 best neurosurgery programs in U.S.
April 2, 2012
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have demonstrated that peptide vaccines in children with gliomas, the most common type of brain tumor, not only were well-tolerated but also showed evidence of immunological responses.