Key Points
- The 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Thermal Medicine was held April 24–27.
- Yingxiao Wang, PhD, presented his work using focused ultrasound to remotely control tumor genes.
- Three focused ultrasound abstracts addressed breast cancer, prostate cancer, and liver perfusion.
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Thermal Medicine (STM) was held April 24–27, 2023, in San Diego, California. The society encompasses thermal medicine applications across medicine, biology, immunology, imaging, physics, engineering, and materials science.
Professor Yingxiao Wang PhD, Department Chair and the Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, was invited to present his work using focused ultrasound to remotely control tumor genes. His presentation, “Remote Control of the Genetics within Tumors via Focused Ultrasound for Cancer Immunotherapy,” highlighted his cellular and molecular engineering research on controllable cell-based therapies.
Three abstracts from platform sessions that might be of interest to the focused ultrasound community are listed below. They cover breast cancer, prostate cancer, and liver perfusion.
Effects of αPD-1 Immunotherapy and MR-guided Focused Ultrasound in a Murine Breast Cancer Model by Josh Hillyard (undergraduate student in biomedical engineering), Allison Payne, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, and Sara Johnson, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
In-Vivo Evaluation of the TheraVision Interstitial Ultrasound System for Prostate Focal Thermal Ablation by Pragya Gupta1, Tamas Heffter2, Peter D Jones1, Muhammad Zubair1, Paul Neubauer2, Emery Williams2, I-Chow Hsu1, E. Clif Burdette2, and Chris J. Diederich1 from 1 University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2 Acoustic MedSystems, Savoy, IL, USA
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Study of the Effect of Acute Heat Stress on Mice Liver Perfusion by Amin Jarrahi, graduate research assistant in biomedical engineering, and A. Colleen Crouch, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Chris J. Diederich, PhD, (University of California, San Francisco) and Allison Payne, PhD, (University of Utah) served on the conference planning committee.