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An ultrasound group in the heart of London.

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Principal Investigator

Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries, PhD

MRC Career Development Award Research Fellow

Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Engineering

Kirsten leads the Super Resolution Imaging group in the QUIIN lab. Her background is in super-resolution ultrasound imaging for quantitative and functional imaging of microvascular associated diseases.

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Principal Investigator

Laura Peralta Pereira, PhD

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering

Laura leads the Ultrasound for Imaging & Material Characterisation group in the QUIIN lab. Her background is in advanced ultrasound methods for screening, monitoring, and interventional guidance.

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Principal Investigator

Antonios Pouliopoulos, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Therapeutic Ultrasound

Antonis leads the Focused Brain Interventions group in the QUIIN lab. His background is in therapeutic ultrasound, targeted drug delivery into the brain, treatment monitoring techniques, and clinical translation of focused ultrasound.

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Research Associate

Marina Bakarić, PhD

Honorary/Adjunct Senior Lecturer 

Marina is working on ultrasound-based thermometry for real-time monitoring of focused ultrasound targeted drug delivery into brain tumours. She is also a Non-Ionising Radiation Physicist within the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

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Research Associate

Mohammed Ahmed, PhD

Mohammed works with Prof. Maya Thanou and Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos to evaluate ultrasound-mediated paediatric brain tumour treatment using drug-loaded thermosensitive liposomes. Previously, he worked on ultrasound-mediated immunomodulation in glioblastoma.  

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Research Associate

Paul Cressey, PhD

Paul works with Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos on targeted mRNA/siRNA delivery to diffuse midline glioma using focused ultrasound. Previously he worked on developing activatable nanoparticle therapies for cancer and antimicrobial applications.

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Research Associate

Paul Dryburgh, EngD

Paul works with Dr. Laura Peralta-Pereira on the development of coherent multi-transducer ultrasound  (CoMTUS) to improve the field of view and resolution in clinical ultrasound. Previously, he worked on ultrasonic characterisation of materials, measuring their crystal orientation and elasticity by laser ultrasound. 

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Research Associate

Emma Lubel, PhD

Emma works with Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos on multi-modal image registration of ultrasound to MRI/CT images of the human skull. Previously, she worked on human- machine interfacing using ultrafast
ultrasound technology. 

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Research Associate

Elli Makrydaki, PhD

Elli works with Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos on sonodynamic therapy of diffuse midline glioma. Previously, she worked on developing glycoenzymes and cell free glycosylation platforms. 

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Research Associate

Jaime Parra Raad, PhD

Jaime works with Dr Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries on developing 3D super-resolution ultrasound imaging techniques. Previously, he worked on characterising anisotropic materials using ultrasound shear waves, designing ultrasound phased array and electromagnetic probes, and optimising control strategies.

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PhD candidate

Amelia Claxton​

Amelia is investigating paediatric brain tumour treatment with ultrasound and drug-loaded phase-change nanodroplets.


Primary Supervisor: Prof. Maya Thanou, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Secondary Supervisor (KCL): Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos

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PhD candidate

Lauren Gomes

Lauren works on probing the mechanobiology of brain tumours with focused ultrasound.

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Primary supervisor: Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos

Secondary supervisor: Prof Jody Rosenblatt, Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics â€‹

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PhD candidate

Zeta Ioannou

Zeta works on targeted treatment of paediatric brain tumours with focused ultrasound and STING agonists.

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Primary supervisor: Prof. Maya Thanou

Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Secondary supervisor (KCL): Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos 

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PhD candidate

Yi Li

Yi's research focuses on physically-informed learning-based beamforming for multi-transducer imaging.

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Primary supervisor: Dr. Laura Peralta-Pereira 

Secondary Supervisors: Prof. Andrew Reader & Prof. Jo Hajnal​

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    PhD candidate

    Tieming Liu

    Tieming works on photoacoustic monitoring of ultrasound-mediated brain tumour treatment. Previously he worked on developing a dual-frequency ultrasound transducer array for superharmonic imaging.

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    Primary supervisor: Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos

    Secondary supervisor: Dr. Wenfeng Xia

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      PhD candidate

      Daniel Lock

      Daniel works on the clinical use of super-resolution ultrasound imaging, investigating micro-scale tissue morphology to characterise tumours.

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      Primary supervisor: Dr Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries

      Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Mengxing Tang, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

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        PhD candidate

        Zhanchong Ou

        Zhanchong works on robot-assisted ultrasound microsurgery for controlled drug delivery in brain tumours.

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        Primary supervisor: Dr. Antonios Pouliopoulos

        Secondary supervisor: Dr. Lukas Lindenroth

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        PhD candidate

        Josie Pearce

        Josie works on developing a tracking algorithm for multi-transducer ultrasound data, and it’s use in ultrasound elastography.

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        Primary supervisor: Dr. Laura Peralta Pereira

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        PhD candidate

        Yuang You

        Yuang works on the development of advanced nanodroplets as a contrast agent for multi-modality brain tumour imaging, including super-resolution ultrasound, MRI, fluorescence, and photoacoustic imaging.

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        Primary supervisor: Prof. Maya Thanou

        Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

        Secondary supervisor: Dr. Kirsten Christensen-Jeffries

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        PhD candidate

        Margi Patel

        Margi works on investigating and establishing radionuclide and ultrasound imaging of biological effects of effective molecular radionuclide therapies on neuroendocrine tumors.

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        Primary supervisor: Dr. Samantha Terry

        Secondary supervisor: Dr. Laura Peralta Pereira

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          PhD candidate

          Qing Zhang

          Qing works on 3D photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging with multi-view ultrasound transducer arrays for guiding minimally invasive surgery.

           

          Primary supervisor: Dr. Laura Peralta Pereira
          Secondary supervisor: Dr. Wenfeng Xia

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            Rachel Burstow, PhD

            PhD candidate

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            Chris Payne, PhD

            Research Assosiate

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            Anam Shaida

            Research Assistant

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            Anisia Talianu
            Research Assistant

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