Summary
Dr. James J. Choi leads the Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory (www.nsblab.org) and is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to a tenured Associate Professor in the USA) in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London.
The purpose of the Noninvasive Surgery & Biopsy Laboratory is to build incision-less microsurgical devices and methods. Such technologies would provide not only pain-less, and infection-free techniques, but also new capabilties. The laboratory works on 5 different disciplines:
- Hardware: Microsurgical devices and electronics
- Algorithms: Beamforming and signal/image processing
- Physics: Non-invasive energies and their interactions with tissue
- Biology: The biological response to the non-invasive energies
- Translation: Translating our inventions in mice and human patients
We are interested in treating several diseases. At the moment, we are working on treating the following diseases using our non-invasive device for delivering drugs across the blood-brain barrier:
- Alzheimer's disease
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
For more information on the laboratory’s research, visit www.nsblab.org
James’s research publications can be found at the tab above, or on Google Scholar
Personal Details
Appointments
- 2018 - Present, Senior Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
- 2013 - 2018, Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
- 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
Education
- 2010 PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
- 2006 MS, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
- 2004 BSE, Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
Awards
- 2011 - 2012, Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics
- 2008 Student Paper Finalist, International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound
- 2007 Student Paper Winner, IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
- 2006 Student Paper Finalist, International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound
- 2004 Magna Cum Laude, University of Michigan
- 2003 David Aspland Scholarship, University of Michigan
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Choi JJ, Selert K, Vlachos F, et al. , 2011, Noninvasive and localized neuronal delivery using short ultrasonic pulses and microbubbles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol:108, ISSN:0027-8424, Pages:16539-16544