Program in Cancer Neuroscience at Stanford
News & Events
Events
Cancer Neuroscience Seminar Series
July 12th Frank Winkler, Heidelberg University
Aug 16th Ben Deneen, Baylor College of Medicine
Nov 15th Shawn Hervey-Jumper, UCSF
Brain Tumor Research Seminar Series for 2023
February 27: Frederick Varn (The Jackson Laboratory)
Dissecting tumor‐microenvironment interactions and their role in the evolution of diffuse glioma
April 24: Roel Verhaak (Yale University)
Dissecting response to treatment in adult patients with a glioma
September 25: Viviane Tabar (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Harnessing pluripotent stem cells to model gliomas and tumor microenvironment
November 27: Pedro Lowenstein (Univ. of Michigan)
In the News
– Stanford News CenterA new branch of oncology, cancer neuroscience, offers hope for hard-to-treat brain tumors
To drive their growth, many tumors hijack nervous system signals, including those needed for brain plasticity. Stanford Medicine discoveries are opening a promising new branch of oncology research.
– BBCThe Documentary - The long haul of long Covid - BBC Sounds
Three years after the official declaration of a pandemic, 65 million people - one in 10 who had Covid-19 - still have symptoms. Some are so ill they are yet to return to work. Michelle Monje-Deisseroth, MD, PhD and other researchers around the world try to unravel the cause behind long COVID which is associated with around 200 symptoms including persistent cognitive impairment.
– Stanford NewsBrain fog after COVID-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain,’ Stanford-led study finds
Researchers found that damage to the brain’s white matter after COVID-19 resembles that seen after cancer chemotherapy, raising hope for treatments to help both conditions.
– Stanford NewsNine Stanford scientists receive cancer research funding totaling $13 million
The funding, from Cancer Grand Challenges, will help the researchers address difficult problems in cancer prevention, treatment-resistant cancers and therapies for pediatric solid tumors.
– National Institutes of Health (NIH)Optic nerve firing may spark growth of vision-threatening childhood tumor
NIH-funded pre-clinical study supports key role of neural activity in brain cancers.
– NPR.orgDeadly brain dancers hijack normal cells to grow
Researchers say certain brain cancers tap electrical signals from healthy cells to fuel their growth. The finding could lead to treatments for deadly tumors like the one that killed Sen. John McCain.
– Bio-XBrain tumors form synapses with healthy neurons
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michelle Monje and Robert Malenka, Bio-X Genentech Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Geraghty, and Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Lydia Tam found that high-grade gliomas wire themselves into the healthy brain among normal neurons. Their work is on the cover of Nature.
– NatureCancer cells have ‘unsettling’ ability to hijack the brain’s nerves
Startling discovery could open up avenues for treating some aggressive tumours.
– Stanford NewsBrain tumor growth stimulated by nerve activity in the cortex, study finds
New research shows that high-grade gliomas, the deadliest human brain tumors, increase their growth by hijacking some of the machinery of neuroplasticity, which normally helps the brain form new synapses.