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Office Location: BME 3.110B
Tyrone Porter
he/him/his
Department Chair, Professor
Donald J. Douglass Centennial Professorship in Engineering
Department Research Area
Drug Discovery and Delivery
Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions
Neuroengineering
Biosensors and Instrumentation
About
Tyrone Porter is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the Acoustical Society of America, and a member of many professional societies, including the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Controlled Release Society, the National Society of Black Engineers, and others. Porter previously worked as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Prairie View A&M University. Porter also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
Research Interests
- Image-guided drug delivery
- Ultrasound and acoustics
Research Focus
Research in the Porter lab focuses on ultrasound technologies with chemical and biomolecular engineered vesicles for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Porter’s overall goal is to push the application of ultrasound technology in new and exciting directions, including immunomodulation and reversible opening of the blood-brain barrier.
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