Internships and Fellowships - Focused Ultrasound Foundation

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Fellowships

The Richard Merkin Visiting Fellowship in Focused Ultrasound is a fellowship program with the goal of expanding the global network and collaboration between the technical or preclinical researchers, and/or the clinical focused ultrasound providers and the Focused Ultrasound Foundation. This Fellowship fosters collaboration between the Foundation, the Fellows' home institutions, and other institutions as relevant.

Fellows benefit from the Foundation’s wide expertise in focused ultrasound and will have the opportunity to seek out and work closely with other investigators and clinicians throughout the Foundation’s network of research sites to stimulate the development of new translational and clinical research projects. It is expected that the Fellow will propose and design his or her own original research project in focused ultrasound.

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Internships

In 2018, the Foundation's internship program was named in memory of Board of Directors member Charles Steger, PhD. The Charles Steger Focused Ultrasound Internship Program encompasses the the Foundation’s local and global internship programs. Integral to the Foundation’s mission, these internships are designed to foster interest of focused ultrasound technology among the next generation of researchers.

Local Internships

Interns 2018 Group sm Launched in June 2012, this program enables bright and gifted students to work on a variety of research projects in collaboration with the Foundation’s scientific and medical team.

The program is generously funded by the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation. The Claude Moore Summer Internship Program of the Charles Steger Focused Ultrasound Internship Program is designed to foster interest in focused ultrasound technology among the next generation of researchers.

Intern projects represent valuable contributions to the field of focused ultrasound. The Foundation employs interns year-round, with a greater number of available positions during the summer months. To apply, please send your resume along with a cover letter to .

2019 Interns

Student Name	Institution
Jackie Brenner	Penn State and Thomas Jefferson Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Zhihang Chen	University of Virginia
Sam Clinard	University of Virginia
Hannah DeVore	University of Virginia
Kate Dieterle	Gunston High School
Nikolai Majorin	George Mason University
Juliette Strubel	The University Exeter
Randy Wang	University of Virginia

Global Internship Program

The Focused Ultrasound Foundation offers an international internship opportunity for high-school and university undergraduate students interested in the physical and life sciences. Interns supported through this program will work in an established focused ultrasound laboratory under a researcher recognized in the field. Application information for 2020 is available.

2019 Global Interns

Student Name	Mentor Name	Institution
Lelah Alhemrani	Jan Kubanek, PhD	University of Utah
Samuele Cabras	Francesco Prada, MD	Instituto Besta
Jake Emrich	Charles Caskey, PhD	Vanderbilt University
Arnav Garg	Indranil Basu, PhD, MBA	Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Romik Ghosh	Vibhor Krishna, MD	Ohio State University
Daniella Jimenez	Elisa Konofagou, PhD	Columbia University
Camille Johnson	Kenneth Bader, PhD	University of Chicago
Woongbin Kang	Dong-Guk Paeng, PhD	Jeju National University
Chris Krasnichuk	Samuel Pichardo, PhD	University of Calgary
Varsha Kumar	Zhen Xu, PhD	University of Michigan
Anna Kunturova	Vera Khokhlova, PhD	Moscow State University
Hohyun Lee	Costas Arvanitis, PhD	Georgia Tech
Arjun Maystry	Indranil Basu PhD, MBA	Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Nathan Meulenbroek	Samuel Pichardo PhD	University of Calgary
Kaylee Meyers	Eli Vlaisavljevich, PhD	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Andreas Mylonas	Christakis Damianou, MS, PhD	Cyprus University of Technology
Anirudh Natarajan	Raag Airan, MD, PhD	Stanford University
Polina Pestova	Oleg Sapozhnikov, PhD	Moscow State University
Emma Slominski	Henrik Odeen, PhD	University of Utah
Tayyaba Tahir	Laura Curiel, PhD	University of Calgary
Karla Tapia	Jan Kubanek, PhD	University of Utah
Sidney Trotter	Kenneth Bader, PhD	University of Chicago

Funded Fellows

The Foundation has supported four researchers through its Richard Merkin Visiting Fellowship in Focused Ultrasound since the program's inception in 2014. The Fellowship was formalized following a very productive year-long collaboration with Institut Langevin's Jean-François Aubry, PhD and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the Focused Ultrasound Foundation is based.

The Richard Merkin Visiting Fellows to date are as follows:

Dong-guk Paeng, PhD (2014-2015)	Associate Professor of Ocean Systems	Jeju National University in Jeju, Korea
Cyril Lafon, PhD (2016-2017)	Director, LabTAU	University of Lyon in Lyon, France
Francesco Prada, MD (2017-2019)	Staff Neurosurgeon	Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Neurologico "C. Besta" in Milan, Italy
Frederic Padilla, PhD (2017-2019)	Associate Professor, LabTAU	University of Lyon in Lyon, France

The following Fellows were funded through the Foundation’s original Fellowship program, which is currently on hold, pending additional funding.

Sarfraz Ahmad, PhD, MRCS University of Dundee - Dundee, UK Mentors: Andreas Melzer, MD, DDS; Ghulam Nabi, MS, MD Fellowship Period: August 1, 2011 – July 31, 2013	Howard Vo, MD, MSEE Department of Radiology, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute - Houston Mentor: King Li, MD, FRCP (C), MBA Fellowship Period: August 1, 2011 – July 31, 2012	Nelly Tan, MD Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles Mentors: Steven Raman, MD; David Lu, MD Fellowship Period: June 2011 – May 2012
Julia Kamp, MD Department of Radiology, Charité - Berlin, Germany Mentors: Bernd Hamm, MD; Alexander Beck, MD Fellowship Period: November 2009 – November 2010	Ronit Machtinger, MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital - Boston Mentor: Clare Tempany, MD; Fiona Fennessey, MD Fellowship Period: September 2009 – August 2011	Thilo Hoelscher, MD Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego Mentor: William Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD Fellowship Period: July – December 2009
Evan Weeks, MD Department of Radiology, St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College, London Mentor: Wladyslaw Gedroyc, MD Fellowship Period: July 2009 – June 2010	Zion Zibly, MD Department of Neurosurgery, SHEBA Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Mentors: Sagi Harnof, MD; Zvi Cohen, MD Fellowship Period: March 2008 – February 2009	Timothy McClure, MD Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles Mentors: David Lu, MD; Steven Raman, MD Fellowship Period: July 2008 – June 2009