The UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis provides comprehensive services to diagnose and treat patients with challenging neuroinflammatory disorders. Clinical care is provided in an environment of robust, cutting-edge translational research, providing our patients with access to the most up-to-date diagnostics and therapies, some of them available only at UCSF. 

We offer state-of-the-art assays such as metagenomic next-generation sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid to diagnose neurologic infections, and research-based studies that investigate novel autoimmune causes of encephalitis.