January 17, 2019 - Alzheimer's Trial in Australia Receives $10M and more news

January 17, 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Top News | Foundation News | Patient News | Research News | Industry News | Events We're debuting a new look. See the updated format below. You'll now receive two short newsletters each month on the latest in the field of focused ultrasound.  Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial at Queensland Brain Institute Receives $10M Funding The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, recently announced that it received $10 million from the Federal Minister for Health to launch a clinical trial to treat 10 patients with Alzheimer’s disease by opening the blood-brain barrier with focused ultrasound and microbubbles. READ MORE >  SEE THE RESEARCH SITE PROFILE >  Foundation News Foundation Meets $10 Million Matching Pledge Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Foundation has fulfilled a $10 million matching pledge.  READ MORE > Mark Your Calendar for Symposium 2020 Our 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound will take place November 8-12, 2020, at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia. READ MORE >  Patient News Parkinson’s Patient Shares His Story with The Colorado Springs Gazette When Ron learned he had Parkinson’s disease, he decided to forego invasive treatments and wait until he could participate in a focused ultrasound clinical trial. READ THE ARTICLE > Toronto Brain Research Featured in The Globe and Mail Meet two patients and learn about focused ultrasound research at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre that is addressing depression and brain tumors.  READ THE ARTICLE > Research News Research Site Profile: Queensland Brain Institute With plans to initiate a new Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial, Dr. Jürgen Götz shared the progress that he and his team have made over the past few years. READ MORE > Register for a Pediatric Focused Ultrasound Meeting in Toronto A team at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is organizing a one-day event this spring for researchers, physicists, and clinicians with an interest in pediatric applications of focused ultrasound. READ MORE > New MOOC Course on BBB Opening Now Available The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Therapeutic Ultrasound has released a new course by Alexandre Carpentier, MD, PhD, on “Opening the Blood-Brain Barrier.”   REGISTER & START THE COURSE >  LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MOOC > January 2019 Research Roundup Researchers at the University of Washington used histotripsy to ablate tumors in a rat model of kidney cancer.  READ THE PAPER > Visit our free, online research library of focused ultrasound publications.  More Research News FDA Approves Focused Ultrasound to Treat Symptom of Parkinson's | The Daily Progress Also see coverage by The Foundation, The Cavalier Daily, The Roanoke Times, Mass Device, and NBC29 Charlottesville Top 10 Parkinson’s Stories of 2018 | Parkinson’s News Today Ultrasound Offers Noninvasive Method to Target Drug Delivery in Animal Brain | Neurology Today 6 Times Imperial Made You Think in 2018 | Imperial College London Tell us about your research news for our next newsletter > Industry News  More Industry News Profound Medical Announces Changes to Commercial Organization | P&T Community Tell us about your industry news for our next newsletter > Upcoming Events January 17-20, 2019 North American Neuromodulation Society 22nd Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV February 14-17, 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC February 27–March 3, 2019 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria March 3-8, 2019 Winter School on Therapeutic Ultrasound, Les Houches, France  March 23-28, 2019 Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas April 28–May 2, 2019 Society For Thermal Medicine (STM) 36th Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida Abstract Deadline is January 21, 2019. May 4-10, 2019 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 12-15, 2019 Ultrasound Energy - ISTU and EUFUS Joint Meeting, Barcelona, Spain Abstract Deadline is February 15, 2019.