July 10, 2025 – Parkinson's Disease FDA Approval and more news…

Published: July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025

FDA Approves Bilateral Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease

Patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease now have the option to receive focused ultrasound on both sides of their brain in two sessions at least six months apart.
The treatment for one side was cleared in 2021.

From Concept to Commercialization: Focused Ultrasound-Enabled Blood-Brain Barrier Opening

Today, focused ultrasound is being used to disrupt the blood-brain barrier in clinical trials for a wide variety of diseases.
In this article, Kullervo Hynynen, PhD, shares his story of discovering this mechanism and expanding its use over the past three decades.

Read His Story

Essential Tremor Treatment Continues to Improve

On the nine-year anniversary of its first regulatory approval, researchers continue to advance focused ultrasound to treat essential tremor.
Six new publications show the future of this life-changing technology.

Podcast: Focused Ultrasound for Treatment-Resistant OCD

Monica has lived with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for nearly 30 years and tried many treatment options.
After focused ultrasound, she experienced immediate relief from depression and a sustained reduction in her OCD symptoms.

Listen to the Episode

Apply Now: Foundation Funds Gene and Cell Therapy Award

For the second year, the Foundation is partnering with the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy to fund one of the organization’s $100,000 Career Development Awards.
The awards support independent pilot studies, and the deadline to apply is August 1.

Learn More and Apply

UVA Team Awarded $3.7 Million for Focused Ultrasound Alzheimer’s Research

Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, received the grant from the National Institute on Aging to explore using focused ultrasound to deliver gene therapies to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
The study aims are to improve microglial immune functions, restore neuronal health, and reduce Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

Learn More

Call for Abstracts and Special Session at Acoustical Society of America 2025

The deadline to submit abstracts is July 28.
Don’t miss a special session on how data science is transforming focused ultrasound treatment planning, monitoring, prediction, and assessment.
The session will cover both thermal ablation and cavitation-mediated therapies, including drug delivery, histotripsy, and blood-brain barrier opening.

Learn More

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“Now I'm getting that part of my life back where I can reconnect with friends, and I can go out and experience the world. That's probably the biggest change for me.”

‒ Monica, after undergoing focused ultrasound treatment for her OCD symptoms

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