Blake Gurfein, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Awards

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• K01 Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health
• 40 Under 40, Silicon Valley Business Journal

Education & Training

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• Sc.B Neuroscience Brown University
• Ph.D. Neuroscience Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Postdoc Neuroimmunology University of California San Francisco

Websites

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• Faculty Profile (osher.ucsf.edu)

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, ExperimentalMagnetic Field TherapyWound HealingT-LymphocytesCorticosteroneMice, Inbred BALB CInfluenza VaccinesInterleukin-11GenomicsStress, PsychologicalB-LymphocytesModels, AnimalSpleenInflammation MediatorsOligodendroglia

• Prospective trial examining safety and efficacy of microcurrent stimulation for the treatment of sinus pain and congestion.
  Bioelectronic medicine 2019 Goldsobel AB, Prabhakar N, Gurfein BT
• Veterinary applications of pulsed electromagnetic field therapy.
  Research in veterinary science 2018 Gaynor JS, Hagberg S, Gurfein BT
• Enriched environment and stress exposure influence splenic B lymphocyte composition.
  PloS one 2017 Gurfein BT, Hasdemir B, Milush JM, Touma C, Palme R, Nixon DF, Darcel N, Hecht FM, Bhargava A
• The embodied mind: A review on functional genomic and neurological correlates of mind-body therapies.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2016 Muehsam D, Lutgendorf S, Mills PJ, Rickhi B, Chevalier G, Bat N, Chopra D, Gurfein B
• Tired telomeres: Poor global sleep quality, perceived stress, and telomere length in immune cell subsets in obese men and women.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2014 Prather AA, Gurfein B, Moran P, Daubenmier J, Acree M, Bacchetti P, Sinclair E, Lin J, Blackburn E, Hecht FM, Epel ES

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• Mouse Stress Reduction Alters Splenic Immune Cell Composition and Enhances Influenza Vaccine Responses.
  Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2014 Blake Gurfein, Olga Davidenko, Mary Premenko-Lanier, Jeffrey Milush, Michael Acree, Mary Dallman, Chadi Touma, Rupert Palme, Vanessa York, Gilles Fromentin, Nicolas Darcel, Douglas Nixon, Frederick …
• Environmental enrichment alters splenic immune cell composition and enhances secondary influenza vaccine responses in mice.
  Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2014 Gurfein BT, Davidenko O, Premenko-Lanier M, Milush JM, Acree M, Dallman MF, Touma C, Palme R, York VA, Fromentin G, Darcel N, Nixon DF, Hecht FM
• The calm mouse: an animal model of stress reduction.
  European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2012 Blake Gurfein, Andrew Stamm, Peter Bacchetti, Mary Dallman, Nachiket Nadkarni, Jeffrey Milush, Chadi Touma, Rupert Palme, Jan Pieter Konsman, Michael Acree, Mary Premenko-Lanier, Nicolas Darcel, …
• P01.43. The calm mouse: an animal model of stress reduction.
  BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2012 B Gurfein, A Stamm, P Bacchetti, M Dallman, N Nadkarni, J Milush, C Touma, R Palme, C Pozzo Di Borgo, G Fromentin, R Lown-Hecht, J Konsman, M Acree, M Premenko-Lanier, N Darcel, F Hecht, D Nixon
• The calm mouse: an animal model of stress reduction.
  Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2012 Gurfein BT, Stamm AW, Bacchetti P, Dallman MF, Nadkarni NA, Milush JM, Touma C, Palme R, Di Borgo CP, Fromentin G, Lown-Hecht R, Konsman JP, Acree M, Premenko-Lanier M, Darcel N, Hecht FM, Nixon DF
• TGFbeta1 induces Jagged1 expression in astrocytes via ALK5 and Smad3 and regulates the balance between oligodendrocyte progenitor proliferation and differentiation.
  Glia 2010 Zhang Y, Zhang J, Navrazhina K, Argaw AT, Zameer A, Gurfein BT, Brosnan CF, John GR
• Notch1 signaling plays a role in regulating precursor differentiation during CNS remyelination.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009 Zhang Y, Argaw AT, Gurfein BT, Zameer A, Snyder BJ, Ge C, Lu QR, Rowitch DH, Raine CS, Brosnan CF, John GR
• IL-11 regulates autoimmune demyelination.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2009 Gurfein BT, Zhang Y, López CB, Argaw AT, Zameer A, Moran TM, John GR
• VEGF-mediated disruption of endothelial CLN-5 promotes blood-brain barrier breakdown.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009 Argaw AT, Gurfein BT, Zhang Y, Zameer A, John GR