Our next webinar will feature 

W. Apoutou N'Djin, M. Eng., M.S., Ph.D.

LabTAU Lyon, France



"Single-Pulse MHz-Range Focused Ultrasound Neurostimulation"

The webinar will be held on Thursday, May 28 or Friday, May 29, 2026 at the following times depending upon your local time zone:



• 8:00 - 9:00 (West Coast, USA/Canada) Thursday, May 28
• 11:00 - Noon (East Coast, USA/Canada) Thursday, May 28
• 16:00 - 17:00 (UK) Thursday, May 28
• 17:00 - 18:00 (Continental Europe) Thursday, May 28
• 23:00 - Midnight (China) Thursday, May 28
• Midnight - 1:00 (Korea and Japan) Friday, May 29

This session will be moderated by Mark E. Schafer, Ph.D. from Drexel University.

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.

W. Apoutou N’Djin received the M. Eng. degree in Instrumentation from the National Graduate School of Engineering & Research Center of Caen (Ensicaen, France) in 2004, the M.S. degree in Image & Signal Processing from the Centrale Graduate School of Lyon (ECL, France), in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University Claude Bernard Lyon I (UCBL, University of Lyon, France), in 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he completed his PhD thesis at the LabTAU laboratory (Lyon, France) of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and UCBL, on intraoperative USgHIFU therapies for focal thermal ablations of liver metastases. From 2009 to 2011, he joined the Imaging Research Laboratory of Sunnybrook (SRI, Toronto, Canada) and University of Toronto (U of T, Canada), as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to study endocavitary/interstitial MRgHICU therapies for conformal thermal ablations of localized tumors in prostate and brain. In 2012, he returned to LabTAU as a Junior Researcher, and has worked there since 2013 as a Research Associate (PI). His research interests include focal/conformal image-guided HIFU/HICU therapies, novel MEMs-based CMUTs technologies, and the mechanisms/applications of FUS neurostimulation. Dr. N’Djin has been a member of the ISTU since 2011, the national SFGBM since 2015, the IEEE UFFC since 2016 and the ITRUSST consortium since 2021, among others. Since 2022, he has served as a Member of INSERM’s national Specialized Scientific Commission “Technologies for Health”. In 2019, he received the international Frederic LIZZI Early Career Award of the ISTU (ISTU/EUFUS symposium, Barcelona, Spain) and is currently an ISTU Board Member.

Mark E. Schafer, PhD, recently joined Drexel’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems as a Research Professor. Dr. Schafer has extensive expertise in ultrasound system development for medical applications, including combined ultrasound and therapeutic light sources for antibacterial treatment, as well as neurological applications of ultrasound. His experience includes diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical ultrasound, as well as lithotripsy devices, from initial design, development and testing through regulatory submission and intellectual property protection. He has been a serial entrepreneur and is a named inventor on over 35 patents. Dr. Schafer is PI on a recently awarded grant from the NIH, focused on the development of a novel catheter-based ultrasound tool for cardiac output measurement in ICU patients. The work will use piezoelectric polymer transducers, with which Dr. Schafer has extensive prior experience.

Our April webinar was a special session of the "Rising Scientists in Therapeutic Ultrasound" series featuring topics related to "Technical Advances". This series provides postdocs and early career scientists (Asst Prof.) a platform to share their work with our society. 

This session featured:



• Fenfang Li, Ph.D. from Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, China presenting: "Cross-Scale Mechanistic Insights into Pulse-Length Dependent BBB Opening and Neurological Therapy"
• Taylor Webb, Ph.D. from University of Utah presenting: "MR-Guided Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation Therapy"
• Ellen Yeats, Ph.D. from University of Michigan presenting: "An Adaptive Method to Reduce Heating at the Ribs during Histotripsy Treatment"



This session was moderated by Dr. Mitra Aliabouzar from the University of Michigan.

We are so grateful for the sponsorship of this year's Webinar Series. Please learn more about their products and innovations in the field today!

Calling all Senior Graduate Students ~ Submissions Deadline Extended to May 15!

We are excited for the fifth annual session of the Future of Therapeutic Ultrasound at ISTU 2026. This poster session will provide a great opportunity for academic and industry recruiters to speak directly with current graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are actively seeking positions.

This session is open to any early career scientists or senior graduate students who are expected to be on the job market within the next 2 years. Separate tracks will be available for individuals pursuing academic and industry career opportunities.

Key Deadlines

• May 15, 2026: Future of Therapeutic Ultrasound Poster Submissions Due Date
• May 16, 2026: Abstract Acceptance Notices



Submissions will close at 11:59pm EST on May 15, 2026. No submissions will be accepted after that date. The Student Membership and Awards Committee will review the submitted abstracts and notification of acceptance or rejection will be made by email by May 16, 2026.

Join scientists, engineers, clinicians and industry from around the world for a very special 25th Annual International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound. The Annual Symposium will be held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology right in the heart of Trondheim, from June 15 - 18, 2026. The meeting will bring together nearly 500 attendees worldwide.

Don't Miss It!

This conference has both virtual and in-person attendance options.