Zhen Xu, Ph.D., Joins U-M Biomedical Engineering Faculty
BME is pleased to announce that Zhen Xu, Ph.D., has joined the BME core faculty as an Assistant Professor this fall. Prof. Xu's most recent position was as an assistant research scientist in the BME department. In her training, she played an important role in development of a new technology based on pulsed ultrasound cavitational bubble therapy technique (known as histotripsy) and studied the mechanism for initiation and maintenance of the bubble cloud using high speed imaging, optical and acoustic monitoring, and impedance tomography. As a faculty member, she will be focusing on developing ultrasound therapy for non-invasive tissue removal in treatment of cardiovascular disease including thrombosis and congenital heart disease. Professor Xu received both her Ph.D. and Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Her undergraduate degree was from DongNan University in Nanjing, China.
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