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tmp6@utexas.edu
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

Research Interests

Image-guided drug delivery, ultrasound, acoustics. 

 

Selected Publications

 

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.