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Recent Publications

Three-dimensional organ-resolved modeling of ultrasound-induced acoustic and thermal effects in the mouse abdomen

Pouria Talebibarmi, Aleksandar Jeremic, Natasha D Sheybani, Vesna Zderic

Ultrasonics

2026

Multimodal PET Defines a ‘Goldilocks’ Thermal Window for Focused Ultrasound Ablation and Immunotherapy Combinations

Zehra EF Demir, Thomas Sherlock, Matthew R DeWitt, Pouria Talebibarmi, Christian Palacios-Gomez, Alexander L Kilbanov, Kiel D Neumann, Shayn M Peirce, Matthew J Lazzara, Jonathan R Lindner, Jiang He, Bijoy Kundu, Natasha D Sheybani

bioRxiv

2026

Focused Ultrasound for Enhancing Cell-Based Immunotherapies in Neuro-Oncology

Tom Sherlock, Andrew Thede, Natasha Sheybani

Neuro-Oncology Advances

2026

Focused ultrasound is poised to take non-viral gene therapies to the blood-brain barrier—And beyond

Eden N Gordon, Anna C Debski, Victoria R Breza, Matthew R Hoch, Nareen Z Anwar, Khondamir Imomnazarov, Alec J Batts, Matthew R DeWitt, Natasha D Sheybani, Richard J Price

Cell Biomaterials

2026

Focused Ultrasound Thermal Ablation and CD40 Agonism Reprograms Breast Tumor Immunity to Drive Regression and Memory

Zehra EF Demir, AeRyon Kim, Beyzanur G Ak, Micaiah SJ Lee, Thomas Sherlock, Stefanyda O Maslova, Andrew T Thede, Matthew R DeWitt, Melanie R Rutkowski, Natasha D Sheybani

bioRxiv

2026

Evaluation of a PET Insert for Trimodal Imaging: A Step Toward PET/MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound

F Lopez-Berenguer, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, M Freire, A González-Tamarit, Santiago Jiménez-Serrano, LF Vidal, M Gil, F Loignon-Houle, I Torres, JL Sachs, JV Rispoli, N Tustison, SS Berr, MB Williams, D Andrés, Juan José Rodríguez-García, José Luis Alonso-Ramos, Noe Jimenez, A Carrión, F Camarena, T Guallart-Naval, JM Algarín, R Bosch, E Pallás, J Alonso, ND Sheybani, S Maslova, T Sherlock, A Thede, ZEF Demir, M Hoch, J He, JM Benlloch, MJ Rodríguez-Álvarez, AJ González

IEEE

2025

CAR-T Cell Therapy in Brain Malignancies: Obstacles in the Face of Cellular Trafficking and Persistence

Serge Yaacoub, Stefanyda Maslova, Elton VanNoy, Abigail Haffey, Khatereh Khorsandi, Natasha Sheybani, Dalia Haydar

Frontiers in Immunology

2025

Therapeutic Ultrasound for Multimodal Cancer Treatment: A Spotlight on Breast Cancer

Zehra E. Demir, Natasha D.Sheybani

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

2025

MR Imaging-Guided Focused Ultrasound for Breast Tumors

Matthew DeWitt, Zehra E. Demir, Thomas Sherlock, David R. Brenin, Natasha D. Sheybani

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics

2024

Intersections of Focused Ultrasound and Extracellular Vesicles: Toward Diversified Biomarker Enrichment and Discovery

Natasha D. Sheybani

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

2024

How Sound Waves Could Revolutionize Cancer (Immuno)therapy

Natasha D. Sheybani

Acoustical Society of America

2024

Solid Tumor Treatment via Augmentation of Bioactive C6 Ceramide Levels with Thermally Ablative Focused Ultrasound

E. Andrew Thim, Todd Fox, Tye Deering, Luke R. Vass, Natasha D. Sheybani, Mark Kester, Richard J. Price

Drug Deliv Transl Res

2023

Guidelines for Immunological Analyses Following Focused Ultrasound Treatment

Frederic Padilla, Jessica Foley, Kelsie Timbie, Timothy N. Bullock, Natasha D. Sheybani

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

2023

An Adaptive and Interpretable Framework for Biomedical Image Analysis

Samarth Singh, Scott T Acton, Shayan Moosa, Natasha D Sheybani

IEEE

2023

Barriers to immune cell infiltration in tumors

Marit M Melssen, Natasha D Sheybani, Katie M Leick, Craig L Slingluff Jr

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

2023

Low-count whole-body PET/MRI restoration: an evaluation of dose reduction spectrum and five state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models

Yan-Ran Wang, Pengcheng Wang, Lisa Christine Adams, Natasha Diba Sheybani, Liangqiong Qu, Amir Hossein Sarrami, Ashok Joseph Theruvath, Sergios Gatidis, Tina Ho, Quan Zhou, Allison Pribnow, Avnesh S Thakor, Daniel Rubin, Heike E Daldrup-Link

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

2023

Determinants of resistance to engineered T cell therapies targeting CD19 in large B cell lymphomas

Brian J Sworder, David M Kurtz, Stefan K Alig, Matthew J Frank, Navika Shukla, Andrea Garofalo, Charles W Macaulay, Mohammad Shahrokh Esfahani, Mari N Olsen, James Hamilton, Hitomi Hosoya, Mark Hamilton, Jay Y Spiegel, John H Baird, Takeshi Sugio, Mia Carleton, Alexander FM Craig, Sheren F Younes, Bita Sahaf, Natasha D Sheybani, Joseph G Schroers-Martin, Chih Long Liu, Jean S Oak, Michael C Jin, Sara Beygi, Andreas Hüttmann, Christine Hanoun, Ulrich Dührsen, Jason R Westin, Michael S Khodadoust, Yasodha Natkunam, Robbie G Majzner, Crystal L Mackall, Maximilian Diehn, David B Miklos, Ash A Alizadeh

Cancer cell

2023

Applications of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening

Advanced drug delivery reviews

Catherine M Gorick, Victoria R Breza, Katherine M Nowak, Vinton WT Cheng, Delaney G Fisher, Anna C Debski, Matthew R Hoch, Zehra EF Demir, Nghi M Tran, Mark R Schwartz, Natasha D Sheybani, Richard J Price

2022

Emerging applications of image-guided therapeutic ultrasound for brain tumor-directed immunomodulation and immunotherapy

Natasha D. Sheybani

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

2022

Targeting immunosuppression for enhanced focused ultrasound efficacy in triple negative breast cancer

Lydia E Petricca , Alexandra R Witter , Natasha D Sheybani , Eric A Thim , Timothy N Bullock , Richard J Price

Journal of Immunology

2022

Clinical role of positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Abdelrahman Sherif Abdalla, Natasha D Sheybani, Saad A Khan

PET clinics

2022

Focused ultrasound for the treatment of glioblastoma

JW Roberts, L Powlovich, N Sheybani, S LeBlang

Journal of Neuro-oncology

2022

Profiling of the immune landscape in murine glioblastoma following blood brain/tumor barrier disruption with MR image-guided focused ultrasound

Natasha D Sheybani, Alexandra R Witter, William J Garrison, Wilson Miller, Timothy N J Bullock, Richard J Price

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

2022

Functional intersections between extracellular vesicles and oncolytic therapies

Ryan A Clark, Zoe G Garman, Richard J Price, Natasha D Sheybani

Trends in pharmacological sciences

2021

Technical choices significantly alter the adaptive immune response against immunocompetent murine gliomas in a model-dependent manner

Breanna Noffsinger, Alexandra Witter, Natasha Sheybani, Aizhen Xiao, Laryssa Manigat, Qing Zhong, Suchet Taori, Tajie Harris, Tim Bullock, Richard Price, Benjamin Purow

Journal of neuro-oncology

2021

Intracranial sonodynamic therapy with 5-aminolevulinic acid and sodium fluorescein: safety study in a porcine model

Luca Raspagliesi, Antonio D’Ammando, Matteo Gionso, Natasha D Sheybani, Maria-Beatriz Lopes, David Moore, Steven Allen, Jeremy Gatesman, Edoardo Porto, Kelsie Timbie, Andrea Franzini, Francesco Di Meco, Jason Sheehan, Zhiyuan Xu, Francesco Prada

Frontiers in oncology

2021

Quantitative analysis of in-vivo microbubble distribution in the human brain

Francesco Prada, Antonio G Gennari, Ian M Linville, Michael E Mutersbaugh, Zhihang Chen, Natasha Sheybani, Francesco DiMeco, Frederic Padilla, John A Hossack

Scientific Reports

2021

DETERMINANTS OF RESISTANCE TO ENGINEERED T-CELL THERAPIES TARGETING CD19 IN LYMPHOMA

B Sworder, DM Kurtz, S Alig, MJ Frank, CW Macauley, A Garofalo, N Shukla, B Sahaf, MS Esfahani, N Sheybani, J Schroers-Martin, CL Liu, M Olsen, JY Spiegel, J Oak, MC Jin, S Beygi, MS Khodadoust, Y Natkunam, R Majzner, CL Mackall, M Diehn, DM Miklos, AA Alizadeh

Hematological Oncology

2021

ImmunoPET-informed sequence for focused ultrasound-targeted mCD47 blockade controls glioma

Natasha D. Sheybani, Victoria R. Breza, Soumen Paul, Katelyenn S. McCauley, Stuart S. Berr, G. Wilson Miller, Kiel D. Neumann, Richard J. Price

Journal of Controlled Release

2021

Transcriptomic response of brain tissue to focused ultrasound‐mediated blood–brain barrier disruption depends strongly on anesthesia

Alexander S Mathew, Catherine M Gorick, E Andrew Thim, William J Garrison, Alexander L Klibanov, G Wilson Miller, Natasha D Sheybani, Richard J Price

Bioengineering & translational medicine

2021

Combination of thermally ablative focused ultrasound with gemcitabine controls breast cancer via adaptive immunity

Natasha D Sheybani, Alexandra R Witter, Eric A Thim, Hideo Yagita, Timothy N J Bullock, Richard J Price

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

2020

Immunomodulation of intracranial melanoma in response to blood-tumor barrier opening with focused ultrasound

Colleen T Curley, Aaron D Stevens, Alexander S Mathew, Katarzyna Stasiak, William J Garrison, G Wilson Miller, Natasha D Sheybani, Victor H Engelhard, Timothy NJ Bullock, Richard J Price

Theranostics

2020

Fluorescein-mediated sonodynamic therapy in a rat glioma model

Francesco Prada, Natasha Sheybani, Andrea Franzini, David Moore, Diogo Cordeiro, Jason Sheehan, Kelsie Timbie, Zhiyuan Xu

Journal of neuro-oncology

2020

Focused Ultrasound Hyperthermia Augments Release of Glioma-derived Extracellular Vesicles with Differential Immunomodulatory Capacity

Natasha D. Sheybani, Alec J. Batts, Alexander S. Mathew, E. Andrew Thim, and Richard J. Price

Theranostics

2020

Deconvolution of the immunological contexture of mouse tumors with multiplexed immunohistochemistry

IS Mauldin, ND Sheybani, SJ Young, RJ Price, CL Slingluff

Methods in enzymology

2020

Perspectives on Recent Progress in Focused Ultrasound Immunotherapy

Natasha D. Sheybani and Richard J. Price

Theranostics

2019

Listening in on the Microbubble Crowd: Advanced Acoustic Monitoring for Improved Control of Blood-Brain Barrier Opening with Focused Ultrasound

Catherine M Gorick, Natasha D Sheybani, Colleen T Curley, Richard J Price

Theranostics

2018

Focused Ultrasound Immunotherapy for Central Nervous System Pathologies: Challenges and Opportunities

Colleen T. Curley, Natasha D. Sheybani, Timothy N. Bullock, and Richard J. Price

Theranostics

2017

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