Opening and Closing Blood Vessels with Ultrasound Induced Cavitation
Dr. David Goertz
Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute | Professor, University of Toronto
Date: Friday, October 24th, 2025
Time: 1–2 p.m. EDT
Host: Dr. Michael Kolios
Location: In-person and virtual
LKS Auditorium – 209 Victoria Street, and via Zoom
Lecture Takeaways
The main takeaways are as follows:
- Ultrasound in combination with cavitation seeds can induce microvascular shutdown and a range of therapeutically bioeffects. Cancer related applications are an important target for this approach.
- Ultrasound has the potential to be employed to resolve large vessel occlusions that occur in the context of stroke, pulmonary embolisms and deep venous thrombosis. Catheter based approaches to achieve this are undergoing rapid development.
Biography
David Goertz is a Senior Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. Dr Goertz’s interdisciplinary research program is primarily focused on the development of cavitation-based ultrasound therapy techniques. One application area of interest is exploiting cavitation induced bioeffects to treat cancer, a second is the development of new approaches and devices to resolve thrombotic or chronic large vessel occlusions.
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