The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory

We are #hiring a Research Associate (Postdoc) to build a multi-spectral focused ultrasound array and engine for delivering drugs to the brain. Start date: 1 July 2025 Duration: 4 years Application deadline: 6 March 2025 imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

We are seeking 3 PhD students to develop and use a new focused ultrasound device to manipulate neural circuits. Engineers, physicists, and neuroscientists are encouraged to apply. Deadline: 16 Jan (R1), 15 Feb (R2, if required) Application descriptors: nsblab.org/join-the-lab

5 years in the making - happy to reveal our work to the world. Microbubbles have been used to open the blood-brain barrier, but we have never even seen a microbubble oscillating in a brain microvessel, until now. We present the first direct observations: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In the TTP Podcast, @jamesjchoi and Sam Barker chat with Stuart Lowe on brain drug delivery. This is a good introduction into how the blood-brain barrier blocks drugs from reaching brain diseases; and how nanomedicines and ultrasound could be the solution. tinyurl.com/zkc73u5z

Welcome @HildeMetzger to our lab! We're glad nothing broke on the way here 😅

I’ve packed up parts of @cav_lab and taken it back on the road - this time to @NSBLab for a month!

We've come up with a way of making microchannels in soft hydrogels, down to 5 µm in diameter! We'll be using them to study Acoustic Cavitation in confinement. Published in #Small lead by @shusei_kawara and in collaboration with @TheAuLab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

We are delighted to announce our Keynote Speaker @jamesjchoi for the FUSE CDT ASM held at @UofGlasgow. Dr Choi is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Bioengineering @imperialcollege and leads @NSBLab #FUSEASM2023 @UniStrathclyde

Graduating today! #OurImperial

Very happy to share that I have passed my PhD viva with minor corrections last Friday. Thanks @Llop_Lab @JWElab lab for making my viva so enjoyable. Thanks to everyone else at @KingsImaging @ImagingCDT including my supervisors Rafa Torres(still not on twitter 😅) and @NSBLab

Passed my viva today! A huge thank you to my colleagues at @NSBLab! A special thank you to my examiners for the inspiring conversation, great questions, and valuable suggestions! It's a strong end, and may also be a good start of something great.

Excited to be presenting in the future leaders session 🔊🫧💊🧠 @NSBLab @JonesLabICR

A great talk from @DaniChattenton at #ISPNO22 on her work towards testing focused ultrasound and microbubbles to deliver drug to the pons to treat #DIPG

Microphones are used to monitor therapeutic ultrasound procedures, but what are we actually listening to? Our lab is studying how (left) ultrasound pulses travelling through a cloud of microbubbles (right) creates an asymmetric series of shock waves. doi.org/10.1121/10.000…

Our next #WE50 winner is revealed... Congratulations Sophie V Morse! @imperialcollege

Incredibly proud of @SophieMorse20 . Congratulations and keep going! :)

Congrats to @jamesjchoi on winning the 2022 Frederic Lizzi Award from @ISTUorg.

Honored to present our work on the system for non-invasive brain surgery in the Parliament! @NSBLab @STEM4Brit

Did you know that inerital cavitation produces acoustic shock waves? If you haven't been detecting sharp compressional peaks, using smaller sensors may help. @ZhengJiang8 has built a needle hydrophone array, which can detect shockwaves and localise them. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/95703…

Liposome delivery to the brain with rapid short-pulses of focused ultrasound and microbubbles. | James J. Choi @imperialcollege | @UKICRS #focusedultrasound #liposome #microbubble doi.org/10.1016/j.jcon…