Posts tagged with 'Biological Sciences Collegiate Division'

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers work study students, and students requring pay interested in Biomedical acoustics.

The focus of the Biomedical Acoustics Development and Engineering Research Laboratory (BADER Lab) is the translation of therapeutic ultrasound for non- or minimally invasive treatment of cardiovascular and cancerous disease. Specifically, we utilize acoustic cavitation for combinatorial ablation and enhanced drug delivery treatment strategies of pathologies resistant to standard interventional techniques. To assess bubble activity and the resultant changes in tissue structure, we are developing multi-modal imaging approaches via diagnostic ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Analytic and numerical bubble dynamics models are also utilized to gain insight into the mechanism of action of our therapeutic approaches. Current research topics include:

• Chronic thrombus ablation with histotripsy and thrombolytic drugs
• Passive cavitation and MR imaging to assess histotripsy-induced liquefaction
• In vitro assessment of histotripsy-enhanced drug delivery
• Histotripsy-induced sonochemical reactions for the treatment of cancer
• Numeric and analytic models of bubble dynamics
• Magnetic Resonance-guided transurethral prostate ablation

For more information, visit our laboratory website: baderlab.uchicago.edu

PI looking for undergraduate research volunteers. My lab is a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary lab that combines the physical sciences, engineering, and surgery. We study aortic pathologies, stability and failure of endovascular repairs, stress focusing phenomena induced by surgical interventions, and interfacial adhesion, surface renewal, and topography.

My long-term research interest is to understand mechanisms underlying drug addiction and to find possible treatment. We use behavioral, genetic, anatomical and molecular biological methods. One major research project is to identify mechanisms and neuronal circuits associated with reconsolidation and extinction of cocaine-induced reward memory. Another project is to develop a novel method of using skin stem cells to deliver therapeutic genes to combat the abuse of cocaine, ethanol, nicotine, opioids and their co-abuse.