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We’re excited to share that Erica successfully defended her PhD dissertation on May 11, 2026. Her dissertation was titled: Development and Clinical Translation of Focused Ultrasound Peripheral Neuromodulation for Chronic Pain Treatment.

Published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a new study demonstrates the advantages of using multi-amplitude modulation (AM) frequency in Harmonic Motion Imaging guided Focused Ultrasound (HMIgFUS).

Huge congrats to Andre Perez on being awarded the George Wendell Memorial Medal and the Thomas “Pop” Harrington Medal!

We’re excited to share that Yangpei Liu successfully defended his PhD dissertation on March 23, 2026. His dissertation was titled: A theranostic harmonic motion imaging system for breast cancer neoadjuvant systemic treatment response prediction and enhancement.

Saachi Munot has been selected to give an oral presentation at the 2026 annual ISTU symposium. Her talk titled "Multi-modal transcranial functional ultrasound imaging reveals spatiotemporal hemodynamics during FUS in non-human primates" will be presented on June 16, at 1:15 PM. 

Congratulations Saachi! We are so excited to learn more about your research!

 

Several members will be representing our lab at the International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) from June 15 - 18, 2026.

Rosie will present her ongoing research at the International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization (UITC) held in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her presentation will be on Tuesday 04/21, at 10:45 AM EDT.

We are excited to share that Christina Proestaki and Cagla Ozsoy will present their research at the Heart Rhythm Society, taking place April 23–26, 2026, in Chicago.

Christina will present “Intraoperative Electromechanical Wave Imaging for Differentiation of AVNRT and AVRT Using Manual and Machine Learning–Based Atrioventricular Activation Delays.”

Cagla will present “Non-Invasive 3D Electromechanical Wave Speed Mapping for Functional Substrate Characterisation in Scar-Related Ventricular Tachycardia.”

Congratulations, Christina and Cagla!

We’re excited to share that our lab’s work was recently featured by Spectrum News NY1 in a story highlighting a promising new approach for treating pediatric brain tumors. 

We are very excited to announce Yangpei Liu's defense on March 23rd, 2026!

Date: March 23, 2026 
Time: 11 am to 1 pm
Location: Todd VP&S 16-405

Fotis from BBB and Saachi from Neuromod will be presenting their amazing work at the 2026 Engineering in Medicine Symposium on February 12th!

Published in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, the study demonstrates the first clinical feasibility of using a row-column-addressed matrix array (RCA) to create rapid, volumetric stiffness maps of breast tumors.