Hong Chen

Phone: 314-454-7742
Email: hongchen@wustl.edu

Prof. Hong Chen joined Washington University in St. Louis in July 2015. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2011. After graduation, she worked as a senior fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington. From 2012 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. In 2005, she received the RWB Stephen’s prize at the World Congress in Ultrasonics/Ultrasonics International. Three years later she was given the Student Paper Award from IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. She was named the Young Investigator Award at the Focused Ultrasound International Symposium in 2014 in recognition of her “outstanding research in the field of focused ultrasound”. She received the Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award from the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound in 2020. Google Scholar link to Dr. Chen’s publications is here.

EDUCATION

PhD, Bioengineering, University of Washington, 2011
MS, Biomedical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2006
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2003

HONORS AND AWARDS

2020 Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award from the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound
2019 The 1^st place professional poster prize at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Society Novel Approaches Target Brain Barriers for Effective Delivery of Therapeutics Workshop.
2019 Chair’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Biomedical Engineering, James McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019
2018 Received funding from the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
2018 Member, Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, November 2018 – current
2014 Young Investigator Award, 4th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound
2011 Finalist for Student Paper Competition, the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound
2011 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Bioengineering Department, University of Washington
2008 Student Paper Award, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
2005 R.W.B. Stephens Prize Winner, the World Congress in Ultrasonics/Ultrasonics International

RESEARCH FUNDING SUPPORT (as PI and co-PI)

Active

Image-guided focused ultrasound-mediated intranasal brain drug delivery technique (FUSIN). NIH/NIBIB [R01EB027223]
FOCUS: functional optical imaging feedback-controlled cellular-level ultrasound stimulation. NIH/NIMH [R01 MH116981]
Passive sonar for cavitation detection in the brain. Office of Naval Research [GRANT12716430]
Focused ultrasound-enabled brain tumor liquid biopsy (FUS-LBx). NIH/NIBIB [R01EB030102]
iSonogenetics for incisionless cell-type-specific neuromodulation of non-human primate brains. NIH/NIMH [UG3MH126861]
Wearable passive sonar for cavitation detection in the brain. Office of Naval Research [GRANT1353891]

Past

Passive sonar for cavitation detection in the brain. Office of Naval Research [GRANT12716430]
Characterization of soft fibrous materials by MRI of ultrasound-induced shear wavesNSF/CMMI [#1727412]
Image-guided drug delivery for improved treatment of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. Children’s Discovery Institute [MC-II-2017-637]
Focused Ultrasound‐enabled Brain Tumor Liquid Biopsy. Washington University Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Seed Grant 2019
Focused Ultrasound‐enabled Brain Tumor Liquid Biopsy: Detecting Brain Cancer Without a Knife. Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS)
Noninvasive, Localized, and Direct Brain Drug Delivery by Focused Ultrasound-mediated Intranasal Delivery (FUSIN). American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant [IRG-58-010-61-1]
MR-compatible Focused Ultrasound for Measuring Mechanical Properties of Deep Brain Tissue at High Frequencies. Office of Naval Research DURIP
Focused ultrasound-enabled brain tumor liquid biopsy. Clinical-Biology Seed Grant from the Department of Radiation Oncology
Focused ultrasound-enabled delivery of theranostic liposomes for cancer treatment. Center for Myeloma Medical Nanotechnology Seed Grant
Noninvasive, localized, and controlled delivery of gold nanoparticles for enhancing radiotherapy of brain tumors. SEAS Collaboration Initiation Grants.