October 26, 2023 - Brain Tumor Liquid Biopsy Platform Earns FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and more news...

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October 26, 2023 FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation for Cordance Medical’s Brain Tumor Liquid Biopsy Platform The company’s NeuroAccess™ platform is designed to noninvasively open the blood-brain barrier for liquid biopsy and drug delivery applications. The FDA’s Breakthrough Devices Program allows fast-tracking of certain novel devices and expedites patient access to treatments. Read More First Patients Enrolled in Lung Cancer Brain Metastases Clinical Trial Clinicians at Johnston-Willis Hospital in Virginia treated two patients in a clinical trial investigating focused ultrasound’s role in enhancing immunotherapy for lung cancer that has spread to the brain. The trial is taking place at five sites throughout the US and Canada. Learn More about the Trial Focused Ultrasound Highlighted at San Francisco Awareness Events Council members Mo Pritzker and Jane Metcalfe hosted several meetings and introduced the technology to many new people. During a panel presentation at UCSF, researchers from the Bay Area discussed how focused ultrasound can improve patients’ lives. Read More Donor Profile: Mo and John Pritzker Foundation Council member Mo Pritzker is a serial entrepreneur and futurist, and her husband, John, is founding partner and director of Geolo Capital. The couple shares why they support the Foundation and how they see focused ultrasound changing medicine. Read More Research Awards Update: Five Preclinical Projects Initiated in the Third Quarter The Foundation’s Research Awards Program has initiated five preclinical studies since July. The funded projects are studying the use of focused ultrasound for brain tumors, cancer immunotherapy, osteosarcoma, and renal cell carcinoma. Read More Pediatric Cancer Research Grants Now Available St. Baldrick’s Foundation is accepting applications to fund innovative research to find cures for childhood cancers. Letters of intent for the spring 2024 grant cycle are due December 8. Learn More Watch Now: Profound Medical’s Analyst and Investor Day Profound Medical recently held its annual investor day, including presentations from physicians who use the TULSA-PRO device to treat the prostate. The nearly 2.5-hour event also included patient testimonials and company updates. Watch Now Call for Abstracts: APFUS 2024 and ASNR 2024 The American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) is accepting abstracts for its May 2024 meeting now through November 1. The deadline to submit abstracts for the February 2024 Asia Pacific Society for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Surgery (APFUS) meeting is November 30. See All Upcoming Events Meeting Report: The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and the International Society of MR Radiographers & Technologists (ISMRT) 2023 The joint annual meeting of ISMRM and ISMRT was held June 3–8 in Toronto. Focused ultrasound abstracts described three new devices and recent advances in brain treatments, epilepsy neuromodulation, and MRI innovations. Read the Report Why It Takes So Long to Develop a Medical Technology (Part 14) In this final blog, Mark Carol, MD, a senior consultant at the Foundation, reviews the major themes in this 14-part series. He discusses the challenges that start-ups face and the importance of making the most integral decisions early. Read the Blog Forwarded this email by a friend? Sign up to receive these emails here. And Don't Miss Learn more about the UK Focused Ultrasound Foundation | Focus Feature: Focus on UK October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month | Watch our Webinar on Focused Ultrasound for Breast Cancer Focused Ultrasound in the News | Medical Moment: Using Focused Ultrasound to Get Rid of Breast Cancer See Recent News Events November 4-7, 2023 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) 2023, Muscat, Oman November 10-12, 2023 FOCAL2023: Frontiers in Oncologic Prostate Care and Ablative Local Therapy 2023, Chicago, IL, USA November 11-15, 2023 Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Meeting 2023, Washington, DC, USA See All Upcoming Events Do you have news for our newsletter? Tell us about it! “We see this as a transformational technology that will not only help people, but also move us into a new era of medicine and how we heal.” ‒ Mo Pritzker, Foundation Council member and donor