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University of Virginia Health System

337 Crispell Dr.

Charlottesville, VA 22908

United States

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Primary Contact: Richard J Price

Research Areas

Pre-Clinical	Clinical	Technical	Bioeffect
Glioblastoma Parkinson's Disease Breast Cancer Glioblastoma Pancreatic Tumors Peripheral Artery Disease Arteriovenous Malformations Stroke, Thromboembolic Epilepsy Epilepsy Glioblastoma Glioblastoma Glioblastoma Lung Tumors	Breast Fibroadenoma Epilepsy Parkinson's Disease Breast Cancer Neuropathic Pain	Drug Delivery Technology FUS Image Guidance, MR FUS Treatment Monitoring FUS Image Guidance, Ultrasound	Thermal Ablation - Clot Lysis Nonthermal - Sonodynamic Therapy Nonthermal - BBB Opening Drug Delivery Nonthermal - BBB Opening Nonthermal - Drug Delivery Vehicle Hyperthermia - Drug Delivery - Immune Cell Trafficking Nonthermal - Tissue Destruction - Other Nonthermal - Sonoporation Nonthermal - Stem Cell Trafficking Hyperthermia - Drug Delivery - Immunomodulation Nonthermal - Stem Cell Delivery Nonthermal - Neuromodulation Nonthermal - Vascular Occlusion Histotripsy - Tissue Destruction Thermal Ablation - Tissue Destruction Nonthermal - Drug Delivery Nonthermal - Angiogenesis Nonthermal - Drug Delivery Immunotherapeutic

Researchers

Research Projects Funded by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation

Category	Title	Indication	Status
Clinical Trial	Focused Ultrasound Therapy to Augment Antigen Presentation and...	Breast Cancer	Active
Technical	Targeted Delivery of Controlled Release Nanoparticles to Brain Tumors Using...	Glioblastoma	Complete
Pre-Clinical	A Radiographic and Histologic Comparison Between Radiofrequency, Gamma Knife...	Essential Tremor	Complete
Pre-Clinical	A safety and feasibility study of MR-guided focused ultrasound lesioning in the...	Essential Tremor	Complete
Pre-Clinical	Delivery of Brain Tumor-Penetrating Nanoparticles Across the Blood Brain...	Glioblastoma	Complete
Technical	Real-time 3D MR Thermometry for Focused Ultrasound Surgery		Complete
Pre-Clinical	Use of low-intensity focused ultrasound for the non-invasive, focal...	Epilepsy	Active
Technical	Development of Novel Acoustic Coupling Media to Improve Image Guidance and...		Active
Clinical Trial	A Feasibility Study to Evaluate Safety and Initial Effectiveness or MR-Guided...	Epilepsy	Active
Clinical Trial	A Feasibility Study to Evaluate Safety and Initial Effectiveness of ExAblate...	Essential Tremor	Complete
Clinical Research	Microbubble distribution in the brain: a real-time intra-operative map to...		Active
Pre-Clinical	Sonodynamic therapy for treatment of C6 glioma in a rat model proof-of-concept...	Glioblastoma	Complete
Pre-Clinical	Safety study: sonodynamic therapy with 5-ALA in a porcine model	Glioblastoma	Active
Pre-Clinical	Non-Invasive Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer	Lung Tumors	Active
Pre-Clinical	Transcranial MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery for Intracerebral Hemorrhage	Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage	Complete
Pre-Clinical	In vivo transcranial cavitation study of low-frequency focused ultrasound in...		Complete
Pre-Clinical	Sonodynamic therapy for treatment of C6 glioma in a rat model – Step 1: F...	Glioblastoma	Complete
Pre-Clinical	Sonodynamic therapy for treatment of C6 glioma in a rat model – Step 2: P...	Glioblastoma	Complete
Pre-Clinical	Thermal Dose Experiment in a Pig Model		Complete
Pre-Clinical	A Chronic Pig Study of Transcranial Histotripsy for Treatment of Brain Tumors		Complete
Technical	MR Visualization of Arterial Thrombus	Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage	Complete
Technical	Target-Specific FUS Treatment Envelope Survey in Cadaveric and Ex-Vivo...	Epilepsy	Complete
Technical	Development and Calibration of MR Techniques for In-Vivo Bone Thermometry		Complete
Technical	Real-time Treatment Monitoring by Diffusion MRI		Active
Technical	MRI Guidance of Focused Ultrasound Neurosurgery		Active
Technical	MRI of Skull Heating During Focused Ultrasound Neurosurgery		Active
Technical	MR Bone Imaging		Complete
Technical	Imaging Atlas of Clot	Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage	Complete
Pre-Clinical	Enhancing immune therapy for brain metastases with focused ultrasound	Melanoma	Complete
Pre-Clinical	Ultrasound-induced immune response on breast cancer	Breast Cancer	Active
Pre-Clinical	Focused ultrasound immunomodulation for pancreatic cancer	Pancreatic Tumors	Active
Clinical Trial	A Pilot Study of Focused Ultrasound Medial Thalamotomy for the Treatment of...	Neuropathic Pain	Active
Clinical Trial	A Feasibility Study to Evaluate Safety and Initial Effectiveness of ExAblate...		Complete

Alan H Matsumoto	Alexander L Klibanov	Amber L Shada	Andrew Y Wang
Benjamin Messinger	Brian H Annex	Brian Wamhoff	Brian Wispelwey
Bryan G Sauer	Carrie Rochman	Christopher Kramer	Christopher R Durst
Craig Meyer	Dana Redick	Daniel E Kleiner	David J Schlesinger
David R Brenin	David Shonka	Diane Huss	George S Bloom
Jaime F Mata	James M Larner	James R Stone	Jason P Sheehan
JoAnn V Pinkerton	Jody Reyes	John A Hossack	John Gaughen
Jose Luis Tlaxca	Kelli Reardon	Leigh B Grossman	Mary E Jensen
Michael Keng	Michelle Barr	Mohamad A Khaled	Nicholas J Tustison
Nina Solenski	Noah S Schenkman	Paul W Read	Pearl L Yu
Peyton T Taylor Jr.	Raymond F Morgan	Reid B Adams	Richard J Price
Robert C Frysinger	Robin Hamill-Ruth	Roger Abounader	Sharon L Hostler
Shiv R Khandelwal	Steven Wasserman	Talent Shevchenko	Vanessa M Shami
W Jeff Elias	Zhiyuan Xu