Besim Uzgil | UCSF Profiles

Besim Uzgil, MD, PhD

Title(s)	Fellow, Neurology
School	School of Medicine
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Biography

Education and Training

UCSF	Residency-Fellowship	Child Neurology
UCSF	Residency	Pediatrics
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine	M.D., Ph.D.	Neuroscience Interdepartmental Research Program
UCLA	B.S.	Neuroscience

Awards and Honors

UCSF Neurology	2018		Robert A. Fishman Lecture, Resident Presentation
J. Kiffin Penry Epilepsy Programs	2018		J. Kiffin Penry Pediatric Epilepsy Program Fellow
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)	2017 -	2019	NIH R25 P0518507
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital	2017		Caring Tree Award, Family Advisory Council
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	2013		Richard D. Walter Award for Excellence in Neurology
ARCS Foundation	2007 -	2008	ARCS Foundation Research Scholar
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	2005		Fred Eiserling Award for Outstanding Research, Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Scholar Program
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	2005		Frederick R. Waingrow Undergraduate Research Scholarship
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	2003 -	2005	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Scholar

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Uzgil B, Sherr EH. Neuroimaging in Aicardi-Goutières syndrome: Biomarkers for a progressive encephalopathy. Neurology. 2016 Jan 05; 86(1):15-6. PMID: 26581303.

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Ch'ng TH, Uzgil B, Lin P, Avliyakulov NK, O'Dell TJ, Martin KC. Activity-dependent transport of the transcriptional coactivator CRTC1 from synapse to nucleus. Cell. 2012 Jul 06; 150(1):207-21. PMID: 22770221; PMCID: PMC4037152.

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Cummings DM, André VM, Uzgil BO, Gee SM, Fisher YE, Cepeda C, Levine MS. Alterations in cortical excitation and inhibition in genetic mouse models of Huntington's disease. J Neurosci. 2009 Aug 19; 29(33):10371-86. PMID: 19692612; PMCID: PMC2754238.

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Cepeda C, André VM, Wu N, Yamazaki I, Uzgil B, Vinters HV, Levine MS, Mathern GW. Immature neurons and GABA networks may contribute to epileptogenesis in pediatric cortical dysplasia. Epilepsia. 2007; 48 Suppl 5:79-85. PMID: 17910585.

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Cepeda C, Starling AJ, Wu N, Nguyen OK, Uzgil B, Soda T, André VM, Ariano MA, Levine MS. Increased GABAergic function in mouse models of Huntington's disease: reversal by BDNF. J Neurosci Res. 2004 Dec 15; 78(6):855-67. PMID: 15505789.

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