November 14, 2019 - John Grisham’s “The Tumor” Reaches Major Milestone – and more news

November 14, 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Top News | Foundation News | Patient News | Research News | Industry News | Events John Grisham’s The Tumor Has Reached One Million People Four years ago, the Foundation’s Chairman, Neal F. Kassell, MD, and Board member and best-selling author John Grisham shared focused ultrasound’s potential and debuted Grisham’s short book, The Tumor, at TEDx Charlottesville. We are pleased to share that the book has now reached a major milestone.   READ MORE >  Foundation News Focused Ultrasound for Psychiatric Disorders Webinar In a recent webinar, Renana Eitan, MD, discussed neurosurgical treatment options for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders and the rationale for introducing focused ultrasound for psychiatry.  WATCH NOW >  Donor Profile: Anonymous Inspired by a presentation at TEDx Charlottesville in 2015, one Foundation donor chooses to support our mission without recognition.  READ MORE > Apply Now: Lockhart Memorial Prize Offered for Cancer Research The deadline to apply or nominate a colleague for this annual $75,000 cash award – established in memory of Andrew Lockhart – is November 22.  READ MORE > US Senator Congratulates Foundation on Virginia Bio Award US Senator Mark R. Warner of Virginia recently commended the Foundation for receiving an award for Outstanding Contributions to Virginia Bioscience from the Virginia Biotechnology Association. READ THE LETTER > Blog Discusses Focused Ultrasound for Mental Illness One in five adults (47.6 million) in the United States suffers from some form of mental illness. Could focused ultrasound offer an answer for these patients? READ THE BLOG POST >  MORE ON FOCUSED ULTRASOUND & PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS >  Patient News Meet Sivi: Essential Tremor Patient Steady Seven Years after Focused Ultrasound Sivi Krishnan traveled internationally to receive focused ultrasound treatment for his essential tremor in 2013.  READ HIS STORY > Meet Jeffrey: The First Patient in a Clinical Trial for OCD Jeffrey Kotas was the first person in North America to participate in a clinical trial investigating the safety of using focused ultrasound to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).  READ HIS STORY >  More Patient News WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Launches Life-Changing Treatment For Essential Tremors [video] | KDKA2 CBS Pittsburgh Farrer Park Hospital Introduces High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Treatment for Uterine Fibroids in Singapore | Yahoo Finance CHI Health St. Mary's Offers Procedure that Reduces, and Even Stops, Essential Tremor [video] |  KOLN/KGIN CBS in Nebraska Minimally Invasive Treatments Let Patients Feel Better Faster | Cure Today Procedure in Nebraska Helps People Suffering from Tremors [video] | KMTV 3 Omaha Research News Queensland Brain Institute Awarded $1M for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia The Queensland Brain Institute’s impressive research portfolio has received $1 million from the Australian government’s Medical Research Future Fund “Frontier Health and Medical Research” scheme.  READ MORE > Focused Ultrasound Abstracts Requested for Video Journal, JoVE Tao Sun, PhD, a Research Fellow in Radiology at Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) is seeking abstracts for a video methods collection on focused ultrasound for neurological disorders.  READ MORE > Meeting Report: Neuroscience 2019 Twenty-five presentations at the Society for Neuroscience’s premier meeting, Neuroscience 2019, featured focused ultrasound research. SEE THE ABSTRACTS > Research Roundup The Columbia University neuroscience team led by Elisa Konofagou, PhD, has developed a novel, portable, and non—MRI-guided system for using focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier in humans.    READ MORE > Visit our free, online research library of focused ultrasound publications. *Login required  More Research News Ontario’s Sunnybrook Research Institute is Leading the World in Focused Ultrasound Clinical Trials | Clinical Trials Ontario The Future of Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma | Medical News Bulletin Alzheimer's Association Zenith Fellows Awards Pursue Novel Treatments, Protection Gene | EurekAlert! Blood-brain Barrier Best Breached by Small Molecules | Physics World Penn State Acoustics Program Strikes Right Tone with Doctoral Student | Penn State News Industry News Sonic Concepts Develops Novel, Customized Platform for Neuromodulation Under the branding of “NeuroFUSTM,” Seattle-based Sonic Concepts is expanding its ability to provide custom technology solutions to researchers – now in the area of focused ultrasound neuromodulation. READ MORE  > New Focused Ultrasound Device Available to Treat Uterine Fibroids in Germany Mirabilis Medical has announced that Universitätsklinik Bonn (the University Clinics and Medical School of Bonn) is now offering patients focused ultrasound treatment for uterine fibroids using their device.  READ MORE >  More Industry News World First 5G Remote Surgery for Shanghai Xuhui District Hospital | ITIJ  The Latest Telecommunications Technology Benefits Patients and Hospitals | Global Times  Here’s Which Startups Won Minority Innovation Weekend’s 2019 Pitch Competition | Technical.ly  Do you have news for our newsletter? 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