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This webinar is part of the series
Molecular Level Understanding is Crucial for Targeted Drug Delivery in the Brain
The theme discussed in this webinar will be:
Noninvasive drug delivery to the brain using short pulses of ultrasound
Biography
Dr James Choi
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Senior Lecturer
Dr. James J. Choi leads the Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory (www.nsblab.org) and is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to a tenured Associate Professor in the USA) in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London.
The purpose of the Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory is to build incision-less microsurgical devices and methods. Such technologies would provide not only pain-less, and infection-free techniques, but also new capabilties. The laboratory works on 5 different disciplines:
- Hardware: Microsurgical devices and electronics
- Algorithms: Beamforming and signal/image processing
- Physics: Non-invasive energies and their interactions with tissue
- Biology: The biological response to the non-invasive energies
- Translation: Translating our inventions in mice and human patients
We are interested in treating several diseases. At the moment, we are working on treating the following diseases using our non-invasive device for delivering drugs across the blood-brain barrier:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
Other webinars in the Molecular Level Understanding is Crucial for Targeted Drug Delivery in the Brain series
- 30 November 16.00 Biomechanical and biochemical aspects of infusion-based targeted drug delivery in brain Dr. Asad Jamal (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
- 14 December 14.00 Nanoparticles for treatment of Tuberculous Meningitis Professor. Alexandra Porter (Department of Materials) and Dr. Alessandra Pinna (Department of Materials)
- 18 January 16.00 Antibody Discovery vs Neurodegeneration Dr Francesco Antonio Aprile (Department of Chemistry)
- 25 January 16.00 Noninvasive drug delivery to the brain using short pulses of ultrasound Dr. James Choi (Department of Bioengineering)
- 1 February 16.00 Development of the bacteria viruses, bacteriophage, into a delivery technology for therapeutic nucleic acids against cancer and other human diseases Professor Amin Hajitou (Department of Brain Sciences)
- 8 February 16.00 Professor. Daniele Dini (Department of Mechanical Engineering) and Professor. Ferdinando Rodrigues y Baena (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
About The Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
The Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE) is one of Imperial College London’s Global Institutes, drawing on the strength of its four faculties to address some of the grand challenges facing the world today. The Institute’s activities are focused on tackling problems where molecular innovation plays an important role.
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