Chris has received the CCSN training grant
Chris has received the T32 training grant from the Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (CCSN) Pathway. Congratulations to him on this achievement!
Chris’s paper on ultrasound liquid biopsy is accepted!
Congratulations to Chris! His paper titled “Feasibility and safety of focused ultrasound-enabled liquid biopsy in the brain of a porcine model” is accepted by Scientific Reports.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day our way!
We’re all showing our love for research today with some delicious cake and cupcakes. We appreciate everyone for their hard work and talents.
Ringing in the new year!
We came together as a lab to celebrate all the past achievements from 2019 and to usher in a new decade for the lab! There are many exciting new projects, members, and milestones to look forward to as we enter 2020. We showed off our competitive spirits at bowling, celebrated each other over a delicious […]
Dr. Chen presented at WUSTL chancellor inauguration symposium
On October 3, 2019, Andrew D. Martin was inaugurated as the 15th chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. The inauguration of Andrew D. Martin as the 15th chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis began with a faculty symposium that explores connections between research and discovery as well as connections to the St. Louis community at […]
Lifei presented her work at IEEE IUS 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland!
Lifei Zhu gave an oral presentation at the 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Chris received the Student Paper Award!
Christopher Pacia received the Student Paper Award from the 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. One of the most prestigious student awards in our ultrasound field! Congratulations! For more details, please see the news report by IUS.
Chen Ultrasound lab received $309,909 from the the National Institute on Aging!
Dr. Hong Chen, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering and of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine, received a $309,909 grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the application of focused ultrasound-mediated drug delivery technique for the treatment of Alzheimer’s […]
2019 Chen Lab Retreat
We had our second lab retreat at Elderberry Hill, MO. Welcome Jinyun, Yan, Chih-Yen, Zhongtao, Paul, and Lu to join our lab this year. We are becoming a big family!
Our work is highlighted by NIH NIBIB!
Ultrasound imaging can monitor the exact drug dose and delivery site in the brain Science Highlights June 17, 2019 An ultrasound imaging technique called passive cavitation imaging was able to create an image and estimate the amount of a drug that crossed the blood-brain barrier to reach a specific location in the brain, according to a study by NIBIB-funded […]