On July 14, graduate student Natasha Sheybani successfully defended her dissertation to earn a PhD from the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering & Applied Science. “Leveraging Focused Ultrasound to Potentiate Immunotherapy for Primary and Disseminated Solid Tumors” was the accumulation of five years spent studying the use of focused ultrasound for cancer immunotherapy.
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