Author: Vince Ruppert

Dezhuang(Summer) Ye gave her talk at the 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Kobe, Japan, 2018.

Dr. Hong Chen talked about brain tumor liquid biopsy in 2018 IUS, Kobe, Japan!

Dr. Hong Chen is featured in the Focused Ultrasound Foundation’s Meet the Experts

Focused delivery for brain cancers Wustl Engineering news Focused delivery for brain cancers Eurekalert

Our lab received our first NIH R01 from the BRAIN Initiative. Congratulations to the team! The news report is here.

Congratulations to Chris! He received the best poster award at the 2018 Radiation Oncology Department Cancer Biology Division Retreat! 

We had our lab retreat at the Mark Twain National Forest!

Summer ‘s paper titled “Focused ultrasound combined with microbubble-mediated intranasal delivery of gold nanoclusters to the brain” has been accepted by Journal of Controlled Release. Congratulations!

We have two manuscripts accepted by the Journal of Controlled Release (Impact Factor: 7.705) and Small (Impact Factor: 8.315), respectively. Our graduate student, Dezhuang (Summer) Ye, is the co-first author of both manuscripts. Congratulations to Summer and the team! Ye DZ*, Sultan D*, Yue YM, Heo GS, Kothapalli S, Luehmann H, Tai YC, Rubin JB, Liu […]

Dezhuang(Summer) Ye gave her talks at the 18th International Symposium for therapeutic ultrasound, Nashville, Tennessee

Dezhuang (Summer) Ye  won the First Place in the student poster award competition at the 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2018

Yaoheng (Mack) Yang gave his talks at the 18th International Symposium for therapeutic ultrasound, Nashville, Tennessee

Lifei Zhu gave her talk at the 35th Annual Society for Thermal Medicine Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 2018.

Our paper titled “Focused Ultrasound-enabled Brain Tumor Liquid Biopsy” is published online in the Scientific Reports. See the article metrics here. See media reports below: Noninvasive Brain Tumor Biopsy on the Horizon Newswise Science nears a brain-cancer biopsy with simple blood test CNET Noninvasive Brain Tumor Biopsy on the Horizon Technology Networks Noninvasive brain tumor biopsy on the horizon: […]

Summer’s abstract titled Intranasal Administration of Temozolomide Combined with Focused Ultrasound to Enhance the Survival of Mice with Glioma (A Pilot Study) has been accepted for a lecture presentation at the 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2018.

Dezhuang (Summer) and Mack (Yaoheng) received Student Travel Award for the ISTU 2018 Meeting

Lifei’s abstract has been accepted for Oral presentation at Society for Thermal Medicine – 2018 Annual meeting. 

The Imaged Guided Therapy (IGT) system arrived today! Inside the big box is an MR-compatible focused ultrasound system!