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SPEAKER: Adrian Maurer

PRESENTATION: Necrosis-initiated complement activation stimulates proliferation of medulloblastoma

Adrian Maurer is a visiting student from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He has spent the last year under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Sughrue in the OU Department of Neurosurgery, developing his lab effort in Oklahoma City. Most of Adrian's work has focused on neuro-oncology but he is interested in all aspects of neurosurgery.

SPEAKER: Nikhil Murthy

PRESENTATION: Comparison between percutaneous ventriculoatrial shunts and ventriculoperitoneal shunts: A single institution’s 10-year experience

Nikhil graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree emphasizing neurobiology. Following his undergraduate education, he pursued research at the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is currently a medical student at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.