Our March webinar featured 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 was moderated by Meaghan O'Reilly, Ph.D. from Sunnybrook Research Institute and University of Toronto.
About the Professors
Dr. 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.
Meaghan O'Reilly, Ph.D.
Sunnybrook Research Institute
University of Toronto
Dr. 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.