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Congratulations to Alexia Alexandraki who has received 2nd prize for her poster at the LIsMM Postgraduate Research Symposium, that was held last week. Alexia's poster, entitled 'Exploring the potential of epigenetic therapy using targeted microbubbles for the treatment of colorectal cancer', helped her to sweep up the prize. There were 31 posters at the Symposium,...
Alfred Yu has a long-standing research interest in ultrasound imaging and therapeutics. He is a Research Assistant Professor in the Medical Engineering Program and the Principal Investigator of the Biomedical Ultrasound Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong. His laboratory is now actively investigating the mechanistic foundations of therapeutic ultrasound and, in parallel, making various...
Roy is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oxford. He specializes in the application of physical acoustics principles to problems in biomedical acoustics, industrial ultrasonics, and acoustical oceanography. Professor Roy previously served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University, as a Senior Physicist at the Applied Physics...
Researchers including Dr Sunjie Ye and Professor Steve Evans from the School of Physics and Astronomy have shown that gold nanotubes have many applications in fighting cancer including: internal nanoprobes for high-resolution imaging; drug delivery vehicles; and agents for destroying cancer cells High recurrence rates of tumours after surgical removal remain a formidable challenge in...
The Winter 2014-15 Alumni magazine feature a detailed talk on 'How a Microbubble Works', thanks to a recent interview they held with Professor Steve Evans, Head of the Molecular and Nanoscale Physics group in addition to being a Primary Investigator in the Microbubble grant. The two page spread takes you through the research and revelations...
Medicine is a highly competitive field that interests many students; however, medicine is not just about medics! On Thursday, December 18, the STEM@Leeds team hosted 120 Year 10 and 11 students from schools across Yorkshire at the Medicine, Not Just About Medics event. The high-ability students, already interested in studying medicine, participated in three different...
Leeds Microbubble Consortium News Archive (2014).
The new instrument is called THE HORIZON Tim Ryan, director of Epigem (www.epigem.co.uk), said: “We are delighted that finally the fruits of our research with Leeds University are being seen. Micro-fluidics is enabling this new technology to potentially create a whole new research field. This world-first shows that British science and engineering continues to blaze...