Our next webinar will feature

James Choi, Ph.D. from Imperial College London presenting:  

"Microbubble Dynamics in Brain Microvessels — Insights into how ultrasound-driven microbubbles alter the blood-brain barrier permeability"

This session will be moderated by Meaghan O'Reilly, Ph.D. from Sunnybrook Research Institute and University of Toronto.

The webinar will be held on Thursday, March 20 or Friday, March 21, 2025 depending upon your local time zone.

This webinar will be broadcast live at the following local times:

• 8:00 - 9:00 (West Coast, USA/Canada)
• 11:00 - Noon (East Coast, USA/Canada)
• 15:00 - 16:00 (UK)
• 16:00 - 17:00 (Continental Europe)
• 23:00 - Midnight (China)
• Midnight - 1:00 (Korea and Japan), Friday, March 21, 2025

Registration for this event is required. The Webinar Series will be recorded and available to members for later review. Confirmation of your registration and the Zoom Conference Link Info will be emailed to all registered attendees prior to the meeting.

Dr. James Choi is an Associate Professor (SL) at the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and leads the Non-invasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory. He received the B.S.E. degree in computer engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, (USA) and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, (USA). In 2011, he then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, (UK) as a Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Acoustics. In 2013, he founded the Non-invasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory at Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, whose mission is to create the next generation of non-invasive microsurgical devices for the treatment and diagnosis of diseases. In 2022, he was awarded the Frederic Lizzi Award for his contributions to focused ultrasound methods for delivering drugs to the brain.

Dr. Meaghan O’Reilly is a Senior Scientist in Physical Sciences at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, and an Associate Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, and the tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Ultrasound. Her research interests include delivery, monitoring and control of bubble-mediated therapies in the CNS, with a recent focus on targeted drug delivery to the spinal cord, and the development of devices and methods for transvertebral focusing at clinical scale.

Our February webinar featured



Maxime Lafond, Ph.D. from LabTAU, Inserm

presenting:



"Ultrasound Therapy in the Eye"

This session was moderated by Vesna Zderic, Ph.D. from The George Washington University.

The Annual Symposium will be held at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, right in the heart of Banff, from June 21 - 24, 2025. The meeting will bring together nearly 500 attendees worldwide.

We received over 200 abstracts that are currently under review by the Scientific Committee and Abstract Review Team. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made by email on March 17, 2025. Student Registration Award Winners will also be notified by email by that date.

The Late-Breaking Abstracts (Posters Only) Submissions System will open on March 18, 2025. Late-breaking submissions will close at 11:59pm EST on April 14, 2025. No submissions will be accepted after that date. The Scientific Committee will review Late-Breaking abstracts and notification of acceptance or rejection will be made by email by April 28, 2025.

Key Dates for Attendees



• March 17, 2025: Regular Abstract Acceptance Notice & Student Registration Award Notifications

• March 18, 2025: Late-Breaking Abstracts (Posters Only) Submissions System Opens

• April 1, 2025: Deadline for Early Registration

• April 14, 2025: Late-Breaking Abstracts (Posters Only) Submissions Due Date

Don't miss the opportunity to share in the latest advancements in therapeutic ultrasound!