Workshops and Mini Workshops

The Foundation organizes invitational workshops, mini-workshops, and roundtables, each involving a range from 20 to 100 participants. 

Attended by thought leaders from industry, academia, government, and others, these workshops produce roadmaps of technical, preclinical, and clinical studies needed to further the development and adoption of focused ultrasound. The workshops also lay the groundwork for collaborations between manufacturers, academic research laboratories, and industry and academia.

The Foundation has organized the following workshops to promote collaboration amongst a wide range of stakeholders:

2025

• Focused Ultrasound for Epilepsy: A New Therapeutic Horizon – November 4-6, 2025
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Focused Ultrasound for Gene and Cell Therapy: Pathways to Clinical Trials – October 27-28, 2025
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Focused Ultrasound for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma – May 13-14, 2025
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Uterine Fibroids: Treatment Advances with Focused Ultrasound – April 16, 2025
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.

2024

• The Role of Focused Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer – November 7-8, 2024
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Virtual Roundtable discussion on Microbubbles – July 10, 2024  
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary. 
• Focused Ultrasound in Psychiatry Symposium (FUS PULSE) – June 5-7, 2024 
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary. 
•  Bench to Bedside – Opportunities to open the BBB for therapeutic delivery and liquid biopsy – March 6-7, 2024  
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary. 

2023

• Focused Ultrasound for Gene and Cell Therapy – November 16-17, 2023
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Brain Targeting | Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Essential Tremor – September 13-14, 2023
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Sonodynamic Therapy Roundtable – August 9, 2023
• Focused Ultrasound and Cancer Immunotherapy Workshop – July 18-19, 2023
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Focused Ultrasound Veterinary Roundtable – July 11, 2023
• Focused Ultrasound for Alzheimer’s Disease Workshop – June 12-13, 2023
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Intellectual Property: Best Patent Practices – March 27-28, 2023

2022

• New Frontiers in Liquid Biopsy: Personalized Medicine for Brain Cancer – March 30, 2022
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.

2021

• Focused Ultrasound for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) – October 27, 2021
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
  
• Detecting, Mapping, and Quantifying Bubble Activity in Therapeutic Ultrasound Workshop Series – September 24-October 29, 2021
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
  
• Focused Ultrasound and Cancer Immunotherapy Workshop – September 1-2
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Liver Cancer – June 9, 2012
  
• Focused Ultrasound for Glioblastoma Workshop – May 19-20
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
  
• Neuroethics for Novel Neurotechnology Webinar – April 19
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.

2020

• Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Pediatric Benign Brain Tumors Workshop – December 11
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
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• Reimbursement Strategies for Focused Ultrasound Summit – March 11 
  Outputs from the summit are included in a summary.

2019

• Diffusion MRI Guidance for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound – August 12-13
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
  
• Focused Ultrasound and Cancer Immunotherapy Workshop – July 18-19
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
  
• The Role of Focused Ultrasound in Pancreatic Cancer – February 28 – March 1
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary. 

2018

• Focused Ultrasound Opening of the Blood-Brain Barrier for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease – October 21
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.

2017

• Focused Ultrasound and Blood-Brain Barrier Workshop – November 16-17
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
  
• Psychiatric Workshop – October 18-20
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.
• Volumetric Thermometry – July 9-11, 2017

2016

• Immunotherapy Summit – October 14
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary.

2015

• Focused Ultrasound for Glioblastoma Workshop – November 9-10
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary/white paper. 
  
• Focused Ultrasound for Alzheimer’s Disease – September 17-18
  Outputs from the workshop are included in a summary/white paper.

• Immunotherapy Workshop – February 11
  Outputs from the workship areincluded a summary/white paper. 
  
• Brain Treatment Envelope & Simulation Workshop – February 2-3
  Outputs from the workshop are included a summary/white paper..

2014 

• Neuromodulation Workshop – March 3-4
  Outputs from the workshop are included a summary/white paper.

2013

• Blood Brain Barrier and Targeted Drug Delivery – September 12-13
  Outputs from the workshop are included a summary/white paper.
  
• Brain Treatment Envelope – June 17-18
  Outputs from the workshop are included a summary/white paper.
  
• Bone workshop – October

2012

• Brain Mini-Workshop: Imaging – July 23-24
  Outputs from the workshop are included a summary/whitepaper.
  
• Liver Workshop – June
  Outputs from the workshop are included a paper.

2011

• Brain Workshop #3 – October 23-26
  Outputs from the workshop are included a summary/white paper.
  
• Focal Drug Delivery Workshop – March 21-23
  Outputs from the workshop are included a summary/white paper.

2010

• Brain Workshop #2 – March 20-23

2009

• Brain Workshop #1 – March 23-25