Supponen Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2025

Cavitation-based bio-ablation and drug delivery

The proposed research will critically advance the medical use of high-intensity focused sound waves, namely ultrasound and shock waves. In particular, the project aims to break grounds by elucidating the physics behind ultrasound and microbubble-mediated targeted drug delivery and non-thermal, cavitation-based ablation of biological tissues and stones, relevant in the treatments of neurological diseases, tumours, blood clots, bacterial infections and kidney stones. Through carefully designed in-vitro experiments, the project aims at explaining and comprehensively characterising, uniquely within a single framework, the currently elusive mechanisms behind the mechanical bioeffects produced by…

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