Dr. Natasha Sheybani, a senior scientist with the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford. Recognized by STAT as a 2020 Wunderkind, which recognizes the "next generation of scientific superstars," she is trailblazing the way for a woefully unrecognized but disruptive technology called focused ultrasound (FUS). So how does FUS work? Focused ultrasound, minimally invasive, uses ultrasound energy guided by real-time imaging to treat tissue deep in the body without incisions or radiation. Where each individual beam passes through the tissue, there is no effect. But, at the focal point, the convergence of the multiple beams of focused ultrasound energy results in many important biological effects, creating the possibility of treating a variety of medical disorders. Dr. Sheybani's research centers around how FUS can treat cancer; how it can be incorporated into drug delivery such as chemo, utilizing FUS's incredible ability to pinpoint the exact location for a therapeutic to be delivered; and how it can complement current therapies such as immunotherapy and gene therapy.
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