News
November 1, 2009
Congratulations to Juan Pardo, Adriane Schiano, Omer Mizra and Milos Marinkovic for winning Undergraduate Research Fellowships!
September 16, 2009
Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory awarded a 2-year IVUS grant from NIH.
September 14, 2009
Iulia Graf joins the lab as a new research associate!
September 14, 2009
Kimberly Homan featured on the Cockrell School of Engineering website Iraq War veteran's next tour of duty: Battling pancreatic cancer
August 24, 2009
Laura Ricles joins the lab as a graduate student!
July 24, 2009
Doug Yeager joins the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, as a Graduate Student. Welcome!
June 8, 2009
Welcome to our new student! Alex Hannah agreed to join our group.
April 29, 2009
Bo Wang is awarded the 2009-2010 University Continuing Fellowship. This award, given by the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin, recognizes outstanding PhD. student for their research achievements. Excellent job, Bo!
April 28, 2009
Srivalleesha Mallidi is a winner of Best Talk for the Portfolio Student Presentations Spring 2009 and Winner of Best Poster for Nano Night Spring 2009 for the project titled “Selective Detection of Cancer Using Photoacoustic Imaging and Gold Nanoparticles.” Congratulations, Valli!
More info on the CNM website.
March 2, 2009
Christopher Green joins the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, as Lab Manager. Welcome!
February 11, 2009
Pieter Kruizinga, graduate student from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, is visiting our lab. Pieter - welkom!
February 2, 2009
Kimberly Homan won a second place in the Best Paper
competition at the 2009 SPIE Photonics West Symposium: Photons Plus Ultrasound:
Imaging and Sensing Conference. The award is given for her paper K. Homan, S.
Gomez, H. Gensler, R. Reddy, C. Green, J. Shah, L. Brannon-Peppas, S.Y. Emelianov
"Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of pancreatic cancer using
nanocage contrast agents" that Kimberly presented at the meeting.Kimberly
competed with more than 100 presenters many of whom are faculty members or full
time researchers. Kim - excellent work!
January 22, 2009
Erika Cooley, IGERT fellow from Sandia National Lab and New Mexico University, is visiting our lab. Erika - welcome aboard!
January 9, 2009
Welcome to our new student! Yun-Sheng Chen agreed to join our group starting Jan. 16, 2009.
January 6, 2009
Dr. Jignesh Shah and Dr. Suhyun Park after their graduation ceremony December 6, 2008.
November 4, 2008
Bo Wang is a recipient of the Best Student Paper award at the 2008 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium held Nov. 2-5, 2008 in Beijing, China. Bo has received this award for her presentation entitled “Design of Catheter for Combined Intravascular Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging” co-authored by Bo Wang (presenter), Andrei Karpiouk, and Stanislav Emelianov. Her presentation was selected from more than 150 student papers. More...
October 24, 2008
On October 24, 2008, Jignesh Shah successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled: "Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging to Guide and Monitor Photothermal Therapy" at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Jonathan Valvano (UT-Austin), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin) and Dr. Konstantin Sokolov (UT-Austin). Jignesh will join Volcano Corporation as a Signal Processing Engineer on December 1, 2008.
September 1, 2008
Dr. Suhyun Park joined General Electric's Corporate Research and Development as a Systems Engineer and Scientist. Good luck, Suhyun!
August 25, 2008
Min Qu and Soon Joon Yoon joined the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory. Welcome!
August 18, 2008
On August 18, Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, presented her PhD Qualifying proposal entitled: "Molecular Specific Photoacoustic Imaging."
July 28, 2008
On July 28 2008, Suhyun Park successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled: "Integrated System for Ultrasonic, Elasticity and Photoacoustic Imaging" at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Mark Hamilton (UT-Austin), Dr. Jonathan Rubin (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Mr. Guy Scott (Winprobe Inc.) and Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin).
July 26 2008
BME Department and Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory are moving in nice new building! The address of new building is 107 W. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78712
April 30, 2008
This month Kimberly Homan, a PhD. student in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, was selected as the recipient of the 2008-2009 University Continuing Fellowship. The award is made to a student who is currently enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin and who is recognized for outstanding accomplishments since entering Graduate School.
April 28, 2008
Seung Yun Nam, Jason Cook and Kimberly Homan join the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory. Welcome!
April 21, 2008
Jignesh Shah, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, won first place at the "Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Graduate Student Research Showcase" on April 18th 2008. Jignesh's talk was titled "Image guided photothermal cancer therapy." The presenters were graduate students from difference departments including Government, Sociology, Curriculum etc. and 10 papers were selected for oral presentation from the received abstracts including 2 panel discussions.
March 24, 2008
Min Qu has accepted an invitation to join our lab starting this fall (2008). Min - welcome aboard!
February 14, 2008
Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, was awarded the "Innovation Grand Prize" for her research "Molecular Specific Photoacoustic Imaging using Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles" that is given to the most innovative research at the fourth annual Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) 2008 conference as determined by the Chair of Free Enterprise. She was selected from more than 100 graduate students participating in GAIN 2008.
August 9, 2007
On July 17 2007, Shriram Sethuraman successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled: "Combined Intravascular Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging" at The University of Texas at Austin. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Stanislav Emelianov (UT-Austin), Dr. Richard Smalling (UT-Medical School, Houston), Dr. Salavat Aglyamov (UT-Austin), Dr. Thomas Milner (UT-Austin) and Dr. Xiaojing Zhang (UT-Austin). Shriram will join Philips Research North America as a Senior Member Research Staff in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapy Department in Fall 2007.
July 1, 2007
Suhyun Park, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the 2007-2008 Wendell Gordon Fellowship - one of the most competitive awards given by the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin.
July 18, 2006
Dr. Stanislav Emelianov receives a grant to fight the chief cause of heart attacks with new image techniques more »
July 1, 2006
Shriram Sethuraman, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the 2006-2007 University Continuing Fellowship. The award is made to a student who is currently enrolled in a graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin and who is recognized for outstanding accomplishments since entering Graduate School.
February 11, 2006
Srivalleesha Mallidi, a PhD. candidate in Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Laboratory, has won the “Honorable Mention” award for her poster entitled “Functional and morphological ultrasonic biomicroscopy for tissue engineers” at the 2006 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held at San Diego, California.
