2025
Mary Karalius is named a 2025 Paul Dudley White International Scholar for an abstract submitted to the International Stroke Conference 2025
Sasha Gupta is awarded the American Academy of Neurology's 2025 Career Development Award
2024
1 Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection
Greer Waldrop is awarded a fellowship from the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research to support early-career investigators
Christine Boutros (Neuroscience MD/PhD student) is awarded a UCSF Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship
Martineau Louine receives a fellowship from the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis' TB Research and Mentoring Program
Signs of Multiple Sclerosis Show Up in Blood Years Before Symptoms Appear. US News, Bloomberg, Science Immunology, Neurology Today, and Nature Reviews Neurology
Martineau Louine's study correlating the central nervous system host response with survival in tuberculous meningitis was named an Abstract of Distinction at the 2024 AAN annual meeting
Lab alum, Prashanth Ramachandran, wins the annual American Academy of Neurology Neuro-Infectious Disease Award
John Pluvinage receives an R25 research education grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Mary Rolfes-Karalius receives the Child Neurologist Career Development Program-K12 Award from NINDS
Sumanth Reddy receives a GloCal Health Fellowship, a career development fellowship sponsored by the NIH Fogarty International Center
2023
Mary Rolfes-Karalius receives the 2023 Tauen Chang Outstanding Junior Member Award from the Child Neurology Society
At the American of Academy of Neurology annual meeting, Martineau Louine receives an AAN Clinical Research Training Scholarship, and John Pluvinage receives the S. Weir Mitchell Award for basic research in neuroscience by physicians in clinical neurology training programs
Debanjana Chakravarty is awarded the Best Young Investigator Poster Presentation Award at the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS) annual meeting
2022
Sasha Gupta received a Poster Award at the American Neurological Association's Annual Meeting for her work on CD19 CAR-T cells to treat a mouse model of MS
Gavin Sowa was selected to give a presentation on autoantibody profiling in MS at the ECTRIMS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam
Chris Bartley finished his postdoctoral fellowship and became Chief of the Translational Immunopsychiatry Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health
2021
Melody Lun is awarded the Pediatric Scientist Development Program fellowship.
Three California teens developed severe psychiatric symptoms after COVID. SF Chronicle, UCSF, Neurology Today
Your Immune System Could Turn COVID-19 Deadly
FNIH Deeda Blair Research Initiative for Disorders of the Brain Award to Christopher Bartley
2020
Researchers Connect Spinal Fluid Autoantibodies to Neurological Symptoms in COVID-19 Patients
Virus Versus Virus: ‘ReScan’ Antibody Test is a Powerful New Tool
Immune Cells in Spinal Fluid of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Identified as Likely Disease Drivers
2019
Enterovirus antibody detection in cerebrospinal fluid of children with acute flaccid myelitis. New York Times, SF Chronicle, Science news.
Christopher Bartley named a 2019 Hanna Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Rare disease discovery: Antibodies fighting cancer go on to attack brain. SF Chronicle.
Scientists Discover Autoimmune Disease Associated with Testicular Cancer
Superfast Gene Sequencing Helps Diagnose Critically Ill Patients
Christopher Bartley awarded a UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds Trainee Research Award
2018
MD/PhD rotation student Kristoffer Leon presents his abstract at the AAN's 2018 Contemporary Clinical Issues Plenary Session
Robbie and the DNA Detectives. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Genomics of Neuroinflammation Podcast
UCSF Center for Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics Announced
Brain-Invading Tapeworm That Eluded Doctors Spotted by New DNA Test. Scientific American.
Clinician-Scientist Development Award in Multiple Sclerosis awarded to Ryan Schubert
2017 and earlier
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences Announces Innovation, Scholar Awards
Sequencing goes deep to find rubella in uveitis patient. College of American Pathologists (CAP) Today.
Metagenomic Deep Sequencing for Uveitis Enhances Traditional Diagnostic Testing. The Rheumatologist.
Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation Awards
Clinicial-Scientist Development Award in Multiple Sclerosis awarded to Ariele Greenfield
Next-Gen Genomic Tests Identify Brain-Eating Amoeba
New Center Will Advance Life-Saving Genome-Based Diagnostic Tools
In a First, Test of DNA Finds Root of Illness. New York Times.