It’s a wrap - 16 faculty and students from our department participated at the recent 2026 AAPM COMP Annual meeting in Canada! Our highlights include posters and presentations - read more here! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @aapmhq.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Congratulations Ke Sheng named one of the 39 fellows for @astro-org.bsky.social 2026 - our department's Vice Chair of the Physics Division! The 2026 class and will be recognized at ASTRO’s 68th Annual Meeting in Boston on September 29. See: radonc.ucsf.edu/ke-sheng-phd... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Ke Sheng, PhD, named a Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) for contributions to cancer care - UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology

FASTRO designation recognizes sustained achievement and service to radiation medicine and patient care Ke Sheng, PhD, professor and Vice Chair, Division of Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology at...

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Apply to our UCSF Brachytherapy Fellowship! For radiation oncologists including new residency grads who wish to develop technical skills & clinical expertise in HDR brachytherapy for malignant diseases. Details: careers.astro.org/job/universi... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Excited to share the special issue: "Integrative Oncology & Radiation Therapy: Evidence, Implementation & Impact" in Seminars in Radiation Oncology Guest editors Kavita Mishra, Jun Mao MSK @ucsfoshercenter.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/journal/semi... @sueyom.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Congratulations to Harish Vasudevan, MD, PhD, who’s in Mumbai this weekend as a plenary speaker in the Advances in Proteomics Technologies International Conference and Workshop sharing his lab’s work in the field of cancer proteomics! @ucsfradonc.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Exciting to join UCSF leaders, Hitachi, FIFTH SPACE & community partners at the Bottoming Out celebration for the future UCSF Life Sciences Building at Power Station in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. See: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Congratulations to our 2026 Radiation Oncology Residency Graduates! We honored the dedication, leadership & academic excellence of graduating medical & physics residents as they prepare for their next chapters. Read about our Grads & Faculty Awardees! radonc.ucsf.edu/celebrating-...

Congratulations to @sueyom.bsky.social Professor & Vice Chair, Strategic Advisory, inductee to Giants of Cancer Care 14th annual class. Read Press Release here! www.mjhlifesciences.com/giants-of-ca... @onclive.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsfohns.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure to host Vivek Kavadi, CEO @astro-org.bsky.social at UCSF! We appreciated hearing his vision & priorities, & how we can work together to continue to make a difference for our patients! Catherine Park, Alex Hotca-Cho, Steven Seyedin, Harish Vasudevan @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social

This #NursesWeek, we recognize the incredible nurses at UCSF Radiation Oncology whose compassion, expertise & resilience make a difference every single day. Thank you for the care you provide & the lives you impact! @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

A Success! Our 2nd Annual Rad Onc Day 2026 welcomed 30 high school students to our Mission Bay clinic to learn about the specialty of radiation oncology & various careers within it. Students attended 7 hands-on labs! radonc.ucsf.edu/rad-onc-day-... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

"Innovation and creativity are things that are the joys of life. Trying to remind ourselves that we're not enclosed in a box and we don't have to just follow the footsteps that everybody laid out before us." Dr. Mary Feng @ucsfradonc.bsky.social www.urotoday.com/video-lectur...

Radiobiology faculty Paola Betancur presented "A genomic deletion variant controls super-enhancer-driven overexpression of LINC00636 and CD47 to promote tumor cell survival in breast cancer" on final day #AACR26! www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21436... @theaacr.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Outstanding UCSF work #AACR2026! Brooke Braman (David Raleigh lab) 2 posters genomics/meningiomas, Courtney Tamaki (Nam Woo Cho Lab) radiation-inducible surface protein targets Details here! www.linkedin.com/posts/ucsf-r... @aacrjournals.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Listen to the latest podcast! "SNObound: Career Advice from Dr. Brooke Braman in Radiation Oncology" from David Raleigh Lab. Dr. Mike Dohopolski & Jayden Hang interview Braman on her residency path soc-neuro-onc.libsyn.com/website/snob... @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

New in @jamaoncology.com: a UCSF team led by David Raleigh, MD, PhD, reports on a prospective genomic profiling analysis of more than 1100 #meningiomas. Their findings could help guide evolving diagnostic criteria and clinical trial design: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @ucsfradonc.bsky.social

We had 70+ ppl at our annual course "Underpinnings & Advances in Reirradiation"! Philips lecture ft. Harald Paganetti "Biologic Effects of Proton Therapy" & Buschke lecture ft. Costas Koumenis "Proton FLASH Radiotherapy & Re-irradiation for Head & Neck Cancer" radonc.ucsf.edu/ucsf-radiati...

Listen to a recent Podcast ft. @julianhong.bsky.social! Discussing considerations for optimizing care among patients with mental health disorders (MHDs) who are undergoing treatment for cancer via Cancer Network @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social www.cancernetwork.com/view/providi...

Providing Support for Mental Health Disorders Across Cancer Populations | CancerNetwork

Julian Hong, MD, MS, offered strategies for providing mental health services into routine workflows for patients undergoing anti-cancer treatment.

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We were thrilled to celebrate National #DoctorsDay at our physicians luncheon yesterday. We are grateful for their hard work, dedication and mission-driven compassion for patient care! @ucsfcancer.bsky.social, @ucsfhealth.bsky.social , @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

Join our Dept! Seeking full time Genitourinary Tumors Faculty (MD or MD/PhD) clinical/academic radiation oncologist to specialize in GU cancers at Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in the Health Sciences Clinical, Clinical X, or In-Residence Series. aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF06014

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Remembering Dr. J. Michael Bishop — Nobel laureate, visionary cancer researcher, and former UCSF chancellor — who passed away at 90. His discovery of oncogenes transformed our understanding of cancer and reshaped modern medicine. Grateful for his life and lasting impact. tiny.ucsf.edu/LAn3aK

Michael Bishop, Nobel-Winning Cancer Researcher, Has Died at 90

Former UCSF Chancellor and Nobel-Prize winning cancer researcher, J. Michael Bishop, has died at the age of 90.

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Match Day 2026! We are excited to have four outstanding new residents joining our program in 2027. We congratulate all of the amazing matched applicants we had the opportunity to meet during this cycle and warmly welcome them to our radiation oncology community. @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

Join us and our partner, California Prostate Cancer Coalition, for the Sixth Annual @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer Friday, April 17, 2026 (8:00AM-5:00PM, PT) UCSF Mission Bay Campus and virtual cancer.ucsf.edu/research/pro...

Applying for Foundation Awards - Perspectives from Recent Awardees | March 16th - panel discussion w/ three recent UCSF faculty who have received foundation grants. Open to @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social senior clinical fellows and early career faculty More info: calendar.ucsf.edu/event/applyi...

Applying for Foundation Awards - Perspectives from Recent Awardees

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Next up at UCSF Research AI Day - Cancer Commons tools and access - uses foundational structure of Information Commons w/ Brinda Venkrtesh @ucsfcancer.bsky.social ai.ucsf.edu/researchday

The extra dose of progesterone from the birth control shot adds fuel for a #meningioma to develop. More on the increased risk compared to others associated with birth control & pregnancy: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/meningi... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social @ucsfbixby.bsky.social

Exciting new paper by Harish Vasudevan et al! "IFN signaling is associated with radiotherapy response in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors" www.jci.org/articles/vie... @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

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Directly relevant to the care of patients with the most common malignant tumor of the peripheral nervous system👇 Zhu et al. reveal transcriptional, functional genetic & cellular mechanisms of IFN signaling that underlie radiotherapy response in people with MPNST: doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

Directly relevant to the care of patients with the most common malignant tumor of the peripheral nervous system👇 Zhu et al. reveal transcriptional, functional genetic & cellular mechanisms of IFN signaling that underlie radiotherapy response in people with MPNST: doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...

The legacy of Dr. Felix Feng @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social lives on at the Feng Symposium on Prostate Cancer Revolutions. Dr. Jeremiah Wala @danafarber.bsky.social reported on his YIA-funded research @conquercancer.bsky.social "Abundance lymphocytic clusters in untreated high-grade prostate cancer"

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Kudos to Jeremiah Wala, MD, PhD @danafarber.bsky.social on receiving the first Dr. Felix Feng Endowed Young Investigator Award at #ASCO25. Thank you to @ascocancer.bsky.social and all who made this tribute to our beloved Dr. Feng a reality.

Tonight is the night. Please join us at 6pm for an awareness and remembrance gathering on the steps of San Francisco City Hall as we Light It Up Blue! to usher in March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness month. calendar.ucsf.edu/event/colore... @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Colorectal Cancer Awareness and Remembrance Gathering

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