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Dr. Yufeng Zhou

Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University
 

Brief Biography:


Zhou Yufeng, male, ultrasound physicist, graduated from department of mechanical engineering and materials science, Duke University in 2003. He worked for Duke University 2003-2006, ImaRx Therapeutics Inc in 2006, and University of Washington 2006-2010. Since 2010, he joined Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as an assistant professor at school of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Now he has published more than 30 papers in the peer-reviewed journals. His recent research interest is focused on the development of novel drug delivery method for solid tumor and cancer using ultrasound technology.

 

Academic positions:


Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Research interests:


  • Image-guided ultrasound therapy
  • Interaction of ultrasound burst with microbubble;
  • Acoustic field characterization;
  • High-intensity focused ultrasound for cancer/tumor ablation;
  • Ultrasound-mediated drug delivery, gene transfection, and immune response;
  • Improving shock wave lithotripsy technology in stone fragmentation and vascular injury;
  • Sonothrombolysis technology, vascular occlusion using mechanical HIFU pulses;
  • Ultrasound imaging.
 

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