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By Ayache Bouakaz and Jean Michel Escoffre
Much research is being directed to targeted drug delivery, where drugs are focused on specific body locations or organs. The combination of ultrasound and microbubbles offer a possible low-cost avenue for moving drugs, genes, or antibodies across tumor cell …
By M Vidyasagar
After (too long!) an absence, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (“Sagar”) returns with his Computational Biology Corner column. This time Sagar recounts an incident that reinforces the need to critically review your measurements!
By Geoffrey P. Luke and Stanislav Y. Emelianov
The emerging field of photoacousitc imaging offers high resolution visualization of body tissues, while being non-invasive and not involving ionizing radiation.
Dr. William Heetderks is the Director of Extramural Science Programs at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NBIB), of the National Institutues of Health (USA). Here he shares with us, via IEEE.tv, the ways in which he sees technology improving the practice …
This month we bring you several views of technological advances in life science – and a cautionary note about not blindly accepting what our instruments tell us! In our video, William Heetderks of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering gives us his views …
Dr. William J. Heetderks is the Director of Extramural Science Programs at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), NIH. The extramural program supports approximately 800 research and training grants at universities and research centers throughout the United States in fields of bioengineering and biomedical imaging. Read more
Geoffrey Luke is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering and Mathematics and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, where he developed a sensor based on the visual system of the common housefly. Read more
Stanislav Y. Emelianov (B.S. and Ph.D. from The Moscow State University, Russia) is currently a Professor and an Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he directs the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory. In addition, Dr. Emelianov is an Adjunct Professor of Imaging Physics at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Read more
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar is the Founding Head of the Bioengineering Department, University of Texas at Dallas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, UK. Read more
Ayache Bouakaz graduated from the University of Sétif, Algeria, from the Department of Electrical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996 from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), France. Read more
Jean-Michel Escoffre earned his M.Sc. degrees in Vectorology, Gene Therapy, Vaccinology and Cell Biophysics in 2005 and 2006 respectively, at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Cell Biophysics in 2010 at the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology (CNRS, UMR 5089) of the University Paul Sabatier. Read more 