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Lab News

Here's what we've been up to over the years.

Present

Pouria's First Author Manuscript is Published: Three-dimensional organ-resolved modeling of ultrasound-induced acoustic and thermal effects in the mouse abdomen

June 2026

Dr. Sheybani is Honored with the SURA Early Career Scientist Award

June 2026

Zehra is Awarded P.E.O Scholarship

June 2026

Dr. Sheybani is Honored with the Frederic Lizzi Early Career Award

June 2026

Tom is Honored with the Nadine Barrie Smith Award

June 2026

Alec, Sarah, Zehra, Tom, Stef, Drew, Khondamir, Owen, and Josefa Present at ISTU 2026 in Trondheim, Norway

June 2026

Drew is Awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Teaching Fellowship

June 2026

Dr. Sheybani Co-Chairs the Inaugural Uva Focused Ultrasound Innovation Summit

June 2026

Drew and Sarah are Selected for Awards at the Inaugural UVa Focused Ultrasound Innovation Summit

June 2026

The Sheybani Lab Presents at the Inaugural UVa Focused Ultrasound Innovation Summit

June 2026

Tom and Drew's First Author Review is Published and Selected For a Special Issue Cover: Focused ultrasound for enhancing cell-based immunotherapies in neuro-oncology

June 2026

Drew is Awarded the Cancer Center Trainee Fellowship

June 2026

Mary Harp is Honored with the 2026 UVA Service Award

May 2026

Alec and Khondamir Contribute to Review From Price Lab: Focused ultrasound is poised to take non-viral gene therapies to the blood-brain barrier—And beyond

May 2026

Ally Joins Lab

May 2026

Micaiah is Awarded Astronaut Scholarship

May 2026

Khondamir Passes Qualifying Exam

May 2026

Mary Eleanor is Named FUS Foundation Global Intern

May 2026

Sarah receives Honorable Mention for her poster presentation at the UVA Postdoc Symposium on April 17th

April 2026

Drew Presents His Work at the American Association of Cancer Research's 2026 Annual Meeting

April 2026

Owen Presents His Work at the UVA Undergraduate Research Symposium

April 2026

Micaiah is Awarded Harrison Undergraduate Fellowship Copy

March 2026

Dylan is Awarded Harrison Undergraduate Fellowship

March 2026

Tom, Stef, Drew, and Owen Receive Student Registration Awards for ISTU

March 2026

Sheybani Lab Website Goes Live

March 2026

Owen Represents UVA at NURVa 2026

January 2026

Owen Joins Lab as a Graduate Student

January 2026

Matteo Joins Lab as Visiting Scholar and Clinician

January 2026

Sarah receives Brain Institute Postdoctoral Professional Development Award

December 2025

Drew is Awarded John Bell McGaughty Graduate Fellowship

December 2025

Tom Successfully Proposes Thesis

November 2025

Tom, Drew, and Zehra Present Posters at SITC 2025

November 2025

Sheybani Lab Presents Oral and Poster Presentations at CVCRC 2025

November 2025

Sheybani Lab Presents Poster Presentations at the France Science Summit 2025

October 2025

Dylan Joins Lab

Septemer 2025

Alec Joins Lab

July 2025

Pouria Joins Lab as Visiting Scholar

June 2025

Sarah Joins Lab

June 2025

Sarah is Awarded NIH T32 Cardiovascular Training Grant

June 2025

Zehra is Awarded Cancer Center Trainee Fellowship

June 2025

Mary Eleanor Joins Lab

May 2025

Drew Passes Qualifying Exam

May 2025

Zehra's First First-Author Review Paper is Published: Therapeutic Ultrasound for Multimodal Cancer Treatment: A Spotlight on Breast Cancer

May 2025

Micaiah Presents His Work at the BMES Mid-Atlantic Research Symposium

April 2025

Khondamir is Awarded Biomedical Sciences Hungerford Fellowship

April 2025

Owen is Awarded Provost Fellowship

March 2025

Owen is Awarded Harrison Undergraduate Fellowship

March 2025

Micaiah Presents His Work at the Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium

March 2025

Khondamir Joins Lab

February 2025

Zehra Successfully Proposes Thesis

February 2025

Sheybani Lab is Awarded US DOD Era of Hope Scholar Award

January 2025

Gokce Graduates with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering

December 2024

Micaiah is Nominated by UVA for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship

December 2024

Gokce Presents Poster at BMES

October 2024

Stef and Zehra Present Oral Presentations at BMES

October 2024

Micaiah Presents His First Poster at Dean's Undergraduate Research Symposium

October 2024

Zehra Presents Oral presention at ISTU 2024

September 2024

Zehra is Victor Orphan Graduate Endowed Fellowship

September 2024

Zehra is Appointed President of the ISTU Student Board

September 2024

Stef is Awarded NIH T32 BIG Grant

July 2024

Tom is Awarded NIH T32 Training Grant

July 2024

Zehra is Awarded the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center Trainee Travel Award

July 2024

Zehra is Awarded Sharon Davie Fellowship

July 2024

Zehra Joins ISTU Student Board

July 2024

Tom Passes Qualifying Exam

May 2024

Stef Passes Qualifying Exam

May 2024

Sheybani Lab Collaborative Review Paper is Published: MR Imaging-Guided Focused Ultrasound for Breast Tumors

May 2024

Zehra is UVA Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs Professional Development Award

April 2024

Zehra is Awarded John T. Casteen II DEI Leadership Award

March 2024

Jessie Joins Lab

March 2024

Micaiah is Awarded Dean's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

March 2024

Micaiah Joins Lab

January 2024

Zehra is Nominated and Awarded for the AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science

January 2024

Owen Joins Lab

December 2023

Zehra is Awarded Best Talk in the Cancer Immunology I Session at the Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference Trainee Award

December 2023

Zehra & Tom Present Oral Presentations at the Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference

December 2023

Zehra is Awarded the travel funding for Merck Rising Stars in Measurement Science Symposium

September 2023

Drew Joins Lab as Jefferson Fellow

August 2023

Zehra Passes Qualifying Exam

June 2023

Zehra is Reappointed to the NIH T32 Training Grant

May 2023

Zehra Presents First Oral Presentation at ISTU 2023

April 2023

Zehra is Awarded the Remi Berriet Award for the Best Student Presentation at the 8 th Winter School for Therapeutic Ultrasound

March 2023

Stef Joins Lab

December 2022

Sheybani Lab First Collaborative Review with Price Lab is Published: Applications of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening

December 2022

Tom Joins Lab

August 2022

Zehra is Awarded NIH T32 Cancer Training Grant

June 2022

Zehra Joins Lab

December 2021

Dr. Sheybani is Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2022

December 2021

Dr. Sheybani is Awarded NIH Director's Early Independence Award

October 2021

Sheybani Lab Launches at UVA!

October 2021

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