HMI team member Dr. Tuhin Roy got his work accepted for a poster presentation at the upcoming IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium (SAUS), which will happen on March 27-29, 2024, at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Looking forward to your presentation, Tuhin!
Cardiac Team member Jad El Harake successfully defended his thesis, titled Myocardial Elastography for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Microvascular Disease, on Tuesday 12th of February, 2024. He defended in front of committee members Professor Paul Sajda, Professor Joshua Jacobs, Professor Andrew Laine, Professor Di Coneybeare, and supervisor Professor Elisa Konofagou. Professor Laine moderated proceedings.
Many congratulations to Dr El Harake from everyone at UEIL!!
UEIL was well represented at IUS 2022 in Venice, with a total of 19 contributions (9 lectures and 10 posters). Special shout-out for Alina, who was nominated for the Student Paper Award with her talk about "Focussed-Ultrasound Blood-Brain-Barrier Opening Promotes Neuroprotective Disease-Associated Microglia". Furthermore, shout-out to Melina Tourni, who made the conference highlights with her lecture "Electromechanical Cycle Length Mapping for Atrial Arrhytmia Detection and Treatment Success Assessment". Electromechanical Cycle Length Mapping (ECLM) is a noninvasive, echocardiography- based 3D…
Congratulations to Niloufar Saharkiz, Stephen Lee, Robin Ji and Grigorios Mario Karageorgos for receiving their PhD as Class of 2022! An amazing achievement!
UEIL Associate Researcher Antonios Pouliopoulos was interviewed by Columbia BME about his research projects in the lab, his high school student mentorship work, and his future plans in academia. Antonios has been an invaluable member of the lab for several years, and he will be soon starting a new role as an assistant professor at King's College London. Congratulations Antonios on the well-deserved professorship; we miss you already!
Read the full interview here.
UEIL Lab member Katherine Liu has won an impressive third place at DEBUT Challenge, which is a national NIH competition for undergraduate projects. Liu worked in a team that developed an EyePhone, which is a phone app to monitor the progress of glaucoma. EyePhone works in coordination with a cardboard VR headset to create a virtual reality field for at-home visual field testing. The device uses existing visual field-testing algorithms to assess a person’s vision outside of a doctor’s office, promoting more regular and accessible monitoring of glaucoma progression.
Congratulations Katherine…
The website of Columbia University discusses a new brain cancer trail in which our lab is involved that tests novel focused ultrasound technique for drug delivery. More can be read here.
Researchers at UEIL are studying the potential of focused ultrasound to treat Alzheimer's. Elisa Konofagou, PhD, and team at UEIL are using a focused ultrasound system they developed to open the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer's patients. Read more about it here
We are excited to see our work on Electromechanical Wave imaging showcased in a Science Highlights article on the NIH website. The article gives a concise overview of the technique and summarizes some of our latest findings using EWI to localize the source of arrhythmias compared to 12-lead ECG. The full article can be found here.
Research done by EWI was mentioned at Health Imaging in research that showed that ultrasound outperforms legacy technique at pinpointing heart arrhythmias was discussed. The article can be read here
The IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (January 2021, Volume 68, Issue 1) featured our paper on Real-Time Passive Acoustic Mapping on the issue front cover. The paper describes an exciting, computationally efficient method of passive acoustic mapping using GPU-accelerated sparse matrix multiplication. Congratulations on the well-deserved recognition to the authors Hermes Kamimura, Shih-Ying Wu, Julien Grondin, Robin Ji, Christian Aurup, Wenlan Zheng, Marc Heidmann, Antonios Pouliopoulos, and Elisa Konofagou!
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Elisa Konofagou, PhD, the Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at Columbia University, and her research team recently treated the first patient in their clinical trial to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Read more about it here.