A preclinical study led by Dr. Isabelle Aubert and her team at Sunnybrook Research Institute found that focused ultrasound may help deliver drugs to fight the effects of Alzheimer’s. The work was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Milken Institute Chairman and Foundation Board member, Mike Milken, spoke with fellow Board member John Grisham and Foundation Chairman Neal Kassell, MD, as part of the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit.
We are pleased to welcome Jane Metcalfe, founder and CEO of NEO.LIFE, to the Council, a passionate group that collaborates with the Board of Directors and staff to help build awareness and raise funds for focused ultrasound.
Team members and a generous anonymous donor raised $20,000, fulfilling wish lists for 52 neighboring nursing facility residents and help bring cheer to this challenging holiday season.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Dean was selected for the honor by Poets & Quants "for his stellar leadership through one of the most turbulent periods in higher education."
All Symposium content is now permanently available on our YouTube channel. You can also read the abstracts from each of the scientific presentations in a two-part PDF document.
The Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech discusses his "unfocused" focused ultrasound work, which ranges from cancer treatment to conservation.
Researchers at Virginia Tech and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine have opened the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center, with services that include focused ultrasound.
Hang’s master’s research project was a 3D animation explaining how focused ultrasound and microbubbles can transiently increase the blood-brain barrier’s permeability.
The recent Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting included two continuing education sessions and seven poster presentations featuring focused ultrasound.
January 11 is the deadline to submit abstracts for EICO, which highlights minimally invasive image-guided cancer therapies. The meeting will be held virtually April 10–13, 2021.
The American Medical Association has issued the first Category I CPT® billing code to facilitate reimbursement for the use of focused ultrasound to treat malignant prostate cancer.
The International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound will host Bradley Treeby, Professor of Biomedical Ultrasound at the University College London, for its first webinar of the new year.
