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December 9, 2021
IN THIS ISSUE Top News | Foundation News | Patient News | Research News | Industry News | Events
New Focused Ultrasound Prostate Device Receives FDA Clearance
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- Insightec has announced that its Exablate Prostate focused ultrasound system has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ablate prostate tissue.
- The ruling enables physicians to use the device to treat prostate disorders like cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
- The noninvasive procedure is completed in a single session under MR-guidance and targets focal ablation of the abnormal prostate tissue, with the surrounding normal tissue remaining intact.
- This is the fourth focused ultrasound device approved in the US to treat the prostate.
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Natasha Sheybani, PhD, Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 List
- Dr. Sheybani, assistant professor at the University of Virginia, was included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Science list for 2022.
- She previously served as a Foundation senior scientist, and the Foundation has funded her research.
- Her work aims to advance noninvasive precision immunotherapy in solid cancers using focused ultrasound.
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Korean Alzheimer’s Disease Study Results Published
- Researchers in Seoul, Korea, have published results from a study using focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
- The clinical trial enrolled six participants to study the procedure’s safety, feasibility, and possible efficacy when opening the BBB.
- Participants were treated twice, three months apart.
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A New System for Brain Histotripsy
- A research team at the University of Michigan designed and tested a transcranial, MR-guided histotripsy system for use in various brain surgery applications.
- The large animal study delivered transcranial histotripsy with a 700-kHz, 128-element phased-array transducer.
- Results showed well-confined lesions within the targeted volume and no bleeding or edema outside the ablation zones.
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Meeting Report: SNO's 26th Annual Meeting and Education Day
- The Society of Neuro-Oncology (SNO) held its annual meeting in Boston from November 18-21.
- Presentations on glioblastoma, diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas, and immunotherapy were particularly applicable to focused ultrasound research.
- One of the education day topics was biomarkers and precision design for clinical trials.
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$12.1 Million in Funding Announced to Preserve Equity in Biomedical Research
- A collaborative group of foundations has announced more than $12.1 million in grants to support early-career faculty at US medical schools.
- Twenty-two schools and affiliated hospitals will receive grants of $550,000 each to deploy programs that enable faculty to continue their research programs.
- The initiative is intended to retain researchers who have been affected by the caregiving crisis caused by the pandemic.
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Visit our free, online research library of focused ultrasound publications.
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December 6-9, 2021 4th International Brain Stimulation Conference, Charleston, SC
January 5-8, 2022 CES 2022, Las Vegas, NV
January 18-20, 2022 3rd Annual Glioblastoma Drug Development Summit, Boston, MA
January 27-29, 2022 Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias Annual Meeting, White Sulphur Springs, WV
March 2-6, 2022 European Congress of Radiology, Vienna, Austria
March 12-16, 2022 American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine, San Diego, CA |
