The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory

Lab @imperialcollege building the operating theatre of the future. Led by @jamesjchoi.

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

We are #hiring a Research Associate (Postdoc) to build a multi-spectral focused ultrasound array and engine for delivering drugs to the brain.
Start date: 1 July 2025
Duration: 4 years
Application deadline: 6 March 2025
https://t.co/PPzvYfGPLt

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

We are seeking 3 PhD students to develop and use a new focused ultrasound device to manipulate neural circuits. Engineers, physicists, and neuroscientists are encouraged to apply.

Deadline: 16 Jan (R1), 15 Feb (R2, if required)

Application descriptors:
https://t.co/eNkyzthUKl

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

5 years in the making - happy to reveal our work to the world.

Microbubbles have been used to open the blood-brain barrier, but we have never even seen a microbubble oscillating in a brain microvessel, until now.

We present the first direct observations:
https://t.co/psQl4dIPqH

[bioRxiv Bioengineering @bioRxiv_bioE]

Microbubble dynamics in brain microvessels

https://t.co/oxT4nkEOLc
#biorxiv_bioE

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

In the TTP Podcast, @jamesjchoi and Sam Barker chat with Stuart Lowe on brain drug delivery. This is a good introduction into how the blood-brain barrier blocks drugs from reaching brain diseases; and how nanomedicines and ultrasound could be the solution.
https://t.co/xFWoqf4B7l

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

Welcome @HildeMetzger to our lab! We're glad nothing broke on the way here 😅

[Hilde Metzger (she/her) @HildeMetzger]

I’ve packed up parts of @cav_lab and taken it back on the road - this time to @NSBLab for a month!

[Hilde Metzger (she/her) @HildeMetzger]

I’ve packed up parts of @cav_lab and taken it back on the road - this time to @NSBLab for a month!

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

We've come up with a way of making microchannels in soft hydrogels, down to 5 µm in diameter! We'll be using them to study Acoustic Cavitation in confinement. Published in #Small lead by @shusei_kawara and in collaboration with @TheAuLab https://t.co/FLHVPS8njH

[FUSE CDT: Future Ultrasonic Engineering @FUSECDT]

We are delighted to announce our Keynote Speaker @jamesjchoi for the FUSE CDT ASM held at @UofGlasgow. Dr Choi is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Bioengineering @imperialcollege and leads @NSBLab #FUSEASM2023 @UniStrathclyde

[ZhengJiang @ZhengJiang8]

Graduating today! #OurImperial

[Aish @Aish1feb]

Very happy to share that I have passed my PhD viva with minor corrections last Friday. Thanks @Llop_Lab @JWElab lab for making my viva so enjoyable. Thanks to everyone else at @KingsImaging @ImagingCDT including my supervisors Rafa Torres(still not on twitter 😅) and @NSBLab

[ZhengJiang @ZhengJiang8]

Passed my viva today! A huge thank you to my colleagues at @NSBLab! A special thank you to my examiners for the inspiring conversation, great questions, and valuable suggestions!
It's a strong end, and may also be a good start of something great.

[Dani Chattenton @DaniChattenton]

Excited to be presenting in the future leaders session 🔊🫧💊🧠 @NSBLab @JonesLabICR

[JonesLabICR @JonesLabICR]

A great talk from @DaniChattenton at #ISPNO22 on her work towards testing focused ultrasound and microbubbles to deliver drug to the pons to treat #DIPG

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

Microphones are used to monitor therapeutic ultrasound procedures, but what are we actually listening to?

Our lab is studying how (left) ultrasound pulses travelling through a cloud of microbubbles (right) creates an asymmetric series of shock waves.

https://t.co/8GiSbqTde3

[Women's Eng. Society @WES1919]

Our next #WE50 winner is revealed... Congratulations Sophie V Morse! @imperialcollege

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

Incredibly proud of @SophieMorse20 . Congratulations and keep going! :)

[Dr Sophie Morse @SophieMorse20]

What an honour to be on this list alongside such incredible and inspirational women! A huge thank you to @WES1919 @GuardianJobs and to my mentors, friends and incredibly encouraging partner, parents and sisters.
#INWED22 #InventorsandInnovators

https://t.co/TpdHCYuZbL

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

Congrats to @jamesjchoi on winning the 2022 Frederic Lizzi Award from @ISTUorg.

[ZhengJiang @ZhengJiang8]

Honored to present our work on the system for non-invasive brain surgery in the Parliament! @NSBLab @STEM4Brit

[The Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory @NSBLab]

Did you know that inerital cavitation produces acoustic shock waves? If you haven't been detecting sharp compressional peaks, using smaller sensors may help. @ZhengJiang8 has built a needle hydrophone array, which can detect shockwaves and localise them. https://t.co/bnwEJO64s8

[J Controlled Release @JCRnEDITORS]

Liposome delivery to the brain with rapid short-pulses of focused ultrasound and microbubbles.
| James J. Choi @imperialcollege | @UKICRS
#focusedultrasound #liposome #microbubble
https://t.co/HpXxmFO6gG