Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, is the first pediatric medical center to be named a Focused Ultrasound Foundation Center of Excellence. The site became our ninth Center of Excellence worldwide.
The newly released 2020 State of the Field Report documents the progress in the field of focused ultrasound made possible by the hard work, time, and resources of the entire community.
This blog outlines strategies for creating an internship program that benefits students, mentors, and organizations alike – while cultivating the next generation of focused ultrasound researchers.
A distinguished executive in the financial industry, Rick Frisbie shares his appreciation for the Foundation and passion for how focused ultrasound could change healthcare.
Children’s National Hospital researchers have made strides treating pediatric solid tumors and now have their sights on novel cancer applications of focused ultrasound.
The 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium featured approximately 60 technical, preclinical, and clinical presentations on therapeutic ultrasound across many applications.
Kullervo Hynynen, MSc, PhD, and his team recently sought to solve an exposure time problem when using focused ultrasound to release chemotherapy drugs from temperature-sensitive liposomes.
Changzhu Jin, PhD, who completed two summer internships at the Foundation, was the lead author on a recent publication that aimed to create a phase correction toolkit for transcranial applications.
The Foundation is partnering with the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) to host “Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in Neuro-Oncology” featuring presentations by leading experts in the field.
Joe Amaral, MD, has joined HistoSonics to oversee its global clinical development initiatives. He brings more than 35 years of clinical and executive leadership in the healthcare space.
Insightec's Exablate Neuro device received national reimbursement from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to treat patients with tremor-dominant Parkinson’s or dyskinesia symptoms related to the disease.
