

Next week, over 2,600 brain tumor researchers and clinicians are gathering in Vancouver, Canada for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO).
With a renewed Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant, the UC San Francisco Brain Tumor Center is receiving $12 million dollars over five years to translate scientific findings into improved care for people with brain tumors.
Last March, the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and Oxford University Press named UCSF neuro-oncologist Susan Chang, MD, Editor-in-Chief of its flagship journal Neuro-Oncology.
Current therapies for glioblastoma are not effective at stopping disease progression – particularly once the brain tumor recurs.