Our February webinar featured Maxime Lafond, Ph.D. , Research Associate / Chargé de Recherche CRCN from LabTAU, Inserm presenting:
"Ultrasound Therapy in the Eye"
This session was moderated by Vesna Zderic, Ph.D. from The George Washington University.
About the Professors
Maxime Lafond, Ph.D.
Maxime Lafond is a research associate at the Laboratory of Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound (LabTAU, INSERM U1032, Lyon, France). He received an M.Sc. degree in acoustics from Université du Maine, Le Mans, France, and a Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the LabTAU in 2016, with a focus on unseeded cavitation-based potentiation of doxorubicin, stable cavitation monitoring, and cavitation localization. He held a JSPS post-doctoral fellowship at the Umemura-Yoshizawa Laboratory, Tohoku University, from 2017 to 2018, where he was involved in cavitation monitoring in sonodynamic therapy. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Image-guided Ultrasound Therapeutics Laboratories, University of Cincinnati, from 2018 to 2021 where he worked on catheter-based ultrasound-mediated drug delivery and bioactive gas delivery for bactericidal and neuroprotective applications. He joined the LabTAU in 2021 to study emerging uses of ultrasound, notably in the eye. His current research interests are using cavitation for ophthalmologic applications including presbyopia reversal and glaucoma management, cavitation-mediated cancer treatment, and ultrasound for implant-based neuroregeneration.
Vesna Zderic, Ph.D.
The George Washington University
Vesna Zderic is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The George Washington University (GW). She received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998 and her PhD degree in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2004. Before coming to GW in 2006, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. Prof. Zderic's current research interests include the application of ultrasound to enhance drug delivery through different biological barriers, studies of safety of therapeutic ultrasound application, and ultrasound application for functional modification of cells and tissues. During her professional career, she has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers, several book chapters, and an edited book. She has also been active in research community as an associate editor and technical committee member for IEEE EMBS, member of advisory editorial board of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, and reviewer for NIH granting programs and several engineering and ultrasound journals.