Focused Ultrasound Foundation

03/13/2026

Join us on Thursday, March 19, from 4 to 5 pm for a free webinar on Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor and Tremor Dominant Parkinson’s Disease. This is a minimally invasive procedure for patients who have not responded to medication. It uses sound waves guided by MRI to treat the source of the tremor with no incisions or permanent implants.

UHS is the first and only healthcare system in Upstate New York offering this technology.

🔗 Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/4rBTGiU

03/12/2026

New Research Spotlight | Noninvasive Ultrasound for Epilepsy.

Exciting findings published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE) show that transcranial focused ultrasound targeting white matter can significantly reduce seizures - with effects lasting beyond stimulation.

This emerging neurotechnology offers promising potential as a noninvasive alternative for treating drug-resistant epilepsy.

👏 Congratulations to the authors:
Huan Gao, Annabel Frake, Dominique M. Durand, and Bin He.

🔗 Read the article: https://bit.ly/46IzHH1.

03/12/2026

A new study from Biomedical Engineering’s Bin He shows ultrasound can subtly prepare the brain to respond, rather than directly triggering activity. Combined with light electrical stimulation, it produces stronger, targeted effects for future therapies.

03/12/2026

The Focused Ultrasound Foundation's newsletter highlighted our recent manuscript presenting results from our early-phase clinical trial utilizing sonodynamic therapy (SDT) in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma.

Authored by Dr. Nader Sanai, Dr. Shwetal Mehta, and other Ivy Brain Tumor Center team members, the study showed that SDT was safe and well-tolerated across multiple energy levels in patients, and that focused ultrasound successfully activated the sonosensitizer in tumor tissue, with evidence of treatment-associated oxidative stress and tumor cell death in targeted regions.

As Dr. Sanai stated, ""Our study provides crucial proof-of-principle evidence for the safety and feasibility of 5-ALA sonodynamic therapy as a novel therapeutic modality for recurrent high-grade glioma.""

Read More: https://bar.rw/4rprsHe

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03/12/2026

Register for the next ISTU webinar, "Risks and benefits of transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation from a regulatory standpoint,” featuring Gabriela Cantarero, PhD, from the US Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Cantarero's expertise spans from foundational research to global clinical program development, FDA regulatory oversight, and strategic commercialization.

This free event will be held live on March 19th and 20th at various local times.
For more information and to register: https://istu.org/istu-live-webinar-series/

03/11/2026

Register Today: Celebration of Focused Ultrasound Event

Join us November 11–13, 2026, in McLean, Virginia, for ‘Celebrating Focused Ultrasound: The Future is Now,’ a landmark event celebrating the extraordinary progress in the field of focused ultrasound, and the 20th anniversary of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation.

This special gathering will bring together patients, clinicians, researchers, industry leaders, regulators, investors, and philanthropists to reflect on the field’s achievements and help shape the next era of noninvasive medicine.

Participants will explore advances in focused ultrasound for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, psychiatric disorders, pain, and more.

Learn more and register: https://www.celebration.fusfoundation.org/

03/11/2026

March is National Essential Tremor Awareness Month!

Did you know around 50% of people living with Essential Tremor are untreated?

Raising awareness helps more people access diagnosis, treatment and support

Learn more 👉️ https://buff.ly/vqocGTG



International Essential Tremor Foundation Focused Ultrasound Foundation The Neurological Alliance

03/11/2026

MD Anderson at Cooper has expanded its prostate cancer treatment program with the addition of robotic high-intensity focused ultrasound, a groundbreaking therapy designed to treat tumors without surgery or radiation.

🔗 Read more: https://www.phillyvoice.com/cooper-expands-prostate-cancer-care-groundbreaking-noninvasive-robotic-hifu-treatment-0599935/

03/11/2026

03/11/2026

The first patient has been treated in the new MR-guided focused ultrasound program at UCI Health. The procedure successfully relieved the patient’s symptoms of essential tremor in his right hand. Before treatment, he struggled to cook, eat, brush his teeth and hold things. His left hand will be treated at a later date.

Focused ultrasound is an incision-free treatment is a breakthrough outpatient treatment option for patients living with essential tremor and tremor-predominant Parkinson’s disease. The procedure uses MRI to precisely direct acoustic energy, or sound waves, at a tiny area in the brain and destroy the tissue causing the tremors.

Read more at https://bit.ly/4bAa2mp

03/10/2026

New on the Podcast!

In this episode of Curing with Sound, we speak with Peter Dolan, a lifelong athlete and prostate cancer survivor who chose focused ultrasound treatment. Peter shares his experience navigating care decisions and offers a candid account of the outpatient procedure and recovery process. He describes a swift return to his active lifestyle, free from the side effects he had anticipated from conventional treatments.

03/10/2026