October 26, 2021
Presented by Andrew Chen, Math & Physics '15, George Washington University Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Candidate.
Andrew Chen, Math & Physics '15, George Washington University Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Candidate will present, "Investigating ultrasound as a therapeutic tool using optical and ultrasound measures."
Andrew graduated from Dickinson College in 2015 with a major in physics and mathematics. He continued on to obtain his PhD in biomedical engineering at The George Washington University in the summer of 2021 with a research focus in therapeutic ultrasound. Currently, he is a postdoctoral scientist in the biomedical engineering department at GW and serving as an adjunct professor in the department as well. In addition to sharing his perspective as a Dickinson student who continued on to a PhD, Andrew will share some of the work and projects he completed during his time at GW. This work includes a project focusing on using therapeutic ultrasound as a potential type 2 diabetes treatment. We have shown previously that ultrasound can induce a release of insulin from a cultured rat insulinoma cell model. Current work focuses on better understanding the mechanism behind ultrasound mediated effects in the pancreas. Another project investigated using therapeutic ultrasound as a way to modulate the behavior of cultured human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes. Further, the beating behavior of the cells was uniquely monitored by spectral ultrasound a measurement method that could offer accurate, long term, inexpensive, and non-destructive monitoring of biological samples.