News

Nov 2025

• Baraa Ibrahim et al received The Outstanding Research Award  (우수발표상-전시) at the 11th Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultraosund Conference. Congrats! 

• Prof. Pahk received The Young Investigator Award (젊은연구자상) from The Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound.

• Recruitment Briefing Session by SAMSUNG MEDISON was held  for our lab members (Nov 10).

Sept 2025

• Our former postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Jun Hong Park, has been appointed as Assistant Professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, starting from this Sept. Congrats! 

• Prof. Pahk was invited to give a lecture entitled "Introduction to Pressure-modulated Shockwave Histotripsy: Precise Mechanical Tissue Destruction" at POSTECH.

• Prof. Pahk was invited to give a lecture entitled "Noninvasive Mechanical Tissue Fractionation Using Therapeutic Ultrasound" at Seoul National University Hospital. 

• Prof. Pahk was invited to give a lecture entitled "Cavitation Power: Recent Updates of Histotripsy" at the 81st Korean Congress of Radiology (KCR 2025), COEX, Seoul.

Aug 2025

• Prof. Pahk has been appointed as Director at Bio-Healthcare Convergence Center, Institute of Convergence Technology, Kyung Hee University(바이오 헬스케어 융합센터장). 

• Prof. Pahk has been appointed as Councilor at the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회 평의원)

July 2025

• Our paper entitled "A parametric study of bubble dynamics and lesion formation in liver tissue phantom during pressure-modulated shockwave histotripsy" has been accepted in Scientific Reports

• Our collaborative work with Sungkyunkwan University entitled "Theoretical modeling and experimental validation of laser-generated focused ultrasound and micro-cavitation dynamics" has been accepted in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Feb 2025

• Daejoon Hwang has graduated with highest honour (Best Overall Mark) from Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University. Congrats!

• Seong Hyeon Kim and Seok Min Won have received the Outstanding Graduate Commendation awards from the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering. Congrats!

• Prof Pahk and Daejoon Hwang have been invited to the UOsaka-UCL Collaboration on Biomedical Engineering & MEI Center Spring School & Symposium 2025 at Osaka University, Japan. 

Jan 2025

• Prof. Pahk has been appointed as Director of Academics (학술이사) at the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회), Director of Research Expertise (전문이사) at the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers - Biomedical Engineering Division (대한기계학회 바이오공학 부문) and Director of International Relations (국제협력이사) at the Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (대한치료초음파학회). 

Dec 2024

• Our collaborative work with Korea Institute of Science and Technology entitled "Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound treatment selectively stimulates senescent cells to promote SASP factors for immune cell recruitment" has been accepted in Aging Cell

Nov 2024

• Prof. Pahk has received "우영메디컬 의공학상 젊은연구자학술상" at the 64th Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering Conference.

• Prof. Pahk has received "논문저술상" at the 10th Annual Symposium of The Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound.

• Muhammad Mahmood et al  has received The Outstanding Research Paper Award  (우수 논문상) at the 64th Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering Conference (Nov 09). Congrats!

• Prof. Pahk chaired "Reshaping Future Medicine with Ultrasound" session at the 64th Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering Conference.

• Prof. Zhen Xu (Dept. Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan), a co-inventor of cavitation cloud based histotripsy and co-founder of HistoSonics, has visited our lab.

• Recruitment Briefing Session by SAMSUNG MEDISON was held  for our lab members (Nov 05).

Oct 2024

• Muhammad Rafay Mahmood has received Seoul Tech Scholarship! Congrats! [News article]

Sept 2024

• Sejun Ahn et al. presented his work entitled "Mechanical destruction of ex vivo porcine liver by pressure-modulated shockwave histotripsy" at the 23rd Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2024) in Taipei, Taiwan (Oral presentation).

• Muhammad Rafay Mahmood et al. presented his work entitled "AI model of the prediction of boiling histotripsy focus: A proof-of-concept study" at the 23rd Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2024) in Taipei, Taiwan (Oral presentation).

• Baraa Ibrahim et al. presented his work entitled "Passive cavitation imaging for monitoring cavitation during pressure-modulated shockwave histotripsy (PSH) using Prodigy" at the 23rd Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2024) in Taipei, Taiwan (Oral presentation).

• Daejoon Hwang et al.  presented his work entitled "Cellular deformation induced by low-intensity ultrasound" at the 23rd Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2024) in Taipei, Taiwan (Oral presentation).

• Jongjae Park et al.  presented his work entitled "Study of the dynamics of microbubbles in a fluid flowing microchannel for LIFU-induced blood-brain-barrier (BBB) opening" at the 23rd Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2024) in Taipei, Taiwan (Poster presentation).

• Prof. Pahk chaired "Histotripsy" at the 23rd Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2024) in Taipei, Taiwan.

Aug 2024

• Prof. Pahk was invited to give a lecture entitled "Therapeutic Ultrasound: From Cell Stimulation to Mechanical Tissue Destruction" at Bio Engineering Workshop - The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers.

July 2024

• Our most recent publication has been featured in a number of news articles [조선일보], [중앙일보], [동아일보], etc

• Our paper entitled "Boiling histotripsy exhibits anti-fibrotic effects in animal models of liver fibrosis" has been accepted in Scientific Reports.

• Prof. Pahk was invited to give a lecture entitled "Introduction to histotripsy: Mechanical tissue ablation with ultrasound" at National Cancer Center.

May 2024

• As a new histotripsy technique, our pressure-modulated shockwave histotripsy (our novel technique) has been introduced by Professor Julianna Simon at The Pennsylvania State University during ISTU On-Air Webinar Series on 23rd May. The full link is available at https://istu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/May2024Webinar.mp4

Mar 2024

• Hyeji Jeon (MS Programme) has joined our lab as Postgraduate researcher. Welcome on board.

• Sejun Ahn has started his MSc-PhD Integrated Programme.

• Seong Hyeon Kim (4th yr student at BME, Kyung Hee Univ) and Seok Min Won (4th yr student at BME, Kyung Hee Univ) have started as undergraduate researchers.

Feb 2024

• Prof. Pahk was invited to give a lecture entitled "Precise mechanical tissue destruction using pressure-modulated shockwave histotripsy" at the Asian Pacific Society for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Surgery 2024 (APFUS2024).

Jan 2024

• Prof. Pahk has been appointed as Director of Education at the Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering (KOSOMBE) 

Dec 2023

• Prof. Pahk has been invited to join the Editorial Board (Biomedical Engineering) of Scientific Reports.

Nov 2023

• Our most recent publication has been featured in a number of news articles [중앙일보], [베리타스알파], [교수신문], [뉴시스], [한국대학신문], [열린뉴스통신], [뉴스퀘스트], [스마트경제], [한겨레], [아시아경제].  

• Muhammad Rafay Mahmood et al. presented his work entitled "Detecting a skin layer using the cannyt edge algorithm during HIFU treatment" at the 62nd The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering Conference.

• Jeong Hyun Moon et al. presented his work entitled "Development of a multi-layer perceptron regression model for predicting ultrasound focal point based on the distance and angle between HIFU transducer and skin surface" at the 62nd The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering Conference.

• Sejun Ahn et al. presented his work entitled "Investigation of changes of cavitation energy level during boiling histotripsy" at the 62nd The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering Conference.

Oct 2023

• Our paper entitled "Increased intracellular diffusivity of macromolecules within a mammalian cell by low-intensity pulsed ultrasound" has been accepted in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry .

• Sejun Ahn et al. presented his work entitled "Cavitation energy analysis during boiling histotripsy and pressure-modulated shockwave histotripsy" at the 9th Annual Symposium of The Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound.

• Prof. Pahk chaired "International Session" session at the 9th Annual Symposium of The Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (Oct.6)

• Prof. Pahk gave a talk entitled "Clinical potential of histotripsy in cancer treatment" at the 9th Annual Symposium of The Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (Oct.7)

Sept 2023

• A paper (co-work with Korea Institute of Science and Technology) entitled "Selective cell-cell adhesion regulation via cyclic mechanical deformation induced by ultrafast nanovibrations" has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

• Seong Hyeon Kim (3rd yr student at BME, Kyung Hee Univ) and Seok Min Won (3rd yr student at BME, Kyung Hee Univ) have joined our lab as undergraduate interns. Welcome on board.

• Jongjae Park (PhD Programme) has joined our lab as Postgraduate researcher. Welcome on board.

Aug 2023

• Jeong Hyun Moon (4th yr student at BME, Kyung Hee Univ) has joined our lab as Undergraduate researcher. Welcome on board.

June 2023

• Our most recent publication has been featured in a number of news articles [뉴시스], [연합뉴스], [국민일보], [베리타스알파], [인천일보], [메디컬투데이], [경희Focus].  

• Prof Pahk gave a talk entitled "Histotripsy: Current and Future perspective" at  Kunkuk University Medical Center hosted by Korean Society of Image-guided Tumor Ablation (대한ITA영상의학회) (June 21).

May 2023

• Our paper entitled "Sonothrombolysis with an acoustic net-assisted boiling histotripsy: A proof-of-concept study" has been accepted in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry .

• Our paper entitled "Noninvasive mechanical destruction of liver tissue and tissue decellularisation by pressure-modulated shockwave histotripsy." has been accepted in Frontiers in Immunology.

• Prof Pahk gave a talk entitled "Histotripsy: Physics and Clinical Applications" at KSUM 2023 conference (May 11).

Mar 2023

• Baraa Ibrahim (MSc-PhD Integrated Programme) has joined our lab as Postgraduate researcher. Welcome on board!

Mar 2023

• Siyeon Park (2nd yr student) and Jeong Hyun Moon (4th yr student at BME, Kyung Hee Univ) have joined our lab as undergraduate interns. Welcome on board!

• Min Gyeong Kim (4th yr student at Dept. Genetics and Biotechnology, Kyung Hee Univ) has now joined our lab as Undergraduate researcher. Welcome on board!

Jan 2023

• Prof. Pahk has been appointed as Director of International Cooperation at the  Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU) 

Dec 2022

• Min Gyeong Kim (3rd yr student at Dept. Genetics and Biotechnology, Kyung Hee Univ) has joined our lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome on board!

Nov 2022

• Sejun Ahn et al  received The Outstanding Research Paper Award  (우수논문상) from The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering Conference (Nov 05). Congrats!

Oct 2022

• Prof. Pahk chaired "International Session - Joint session with JSTU and TAITU" session at the 8th  Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Conference, Seoul, Korea) (Oct 29).

• Prof. Pahk received The Excellence in Research of the Year Award (논문저술상) from The Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (Oct 29).

• Daejoon Hwang et al. presented our work entitled "Violent acoustic cavitation in tissue phantom produced by a 20 kHz ultrasound" at the 8th  Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Conference, Seoul, Korea) (Oct 29).

• Prof. Pahk organised and chaired "Brain therapy using ultrasound & Cavitation-based therapeutic ultrasound" session at the 24th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2022), Gyeongju, Korea) (Oct 27).

Aug 2022

• Our paper entitled "Investigation of the long-term healing response of the liver to boiling histotripsy treatment in vivo." has been accepted in Scientific Reports.

July 2022

• Prof. Pahk gave a talk entitled "The role of acoustic cavitation in therapeutic ultrasound" at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, KRISS (July 25) 

• Dae Jun Hwang and Sena Kwon (2nd yr students at BME, Kyung Hee Univ.) have joined our lab as Undergraduate researchers. Welcome on board!

• A paper (co-work with University College London) entitled "Mechanisms of nuclei growth in ultrasound bubble nucleation" has been accepted for publication in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry.

Aug 2021

• Our most recent publication has been featured in a number of news articles [link 1], [link 2] 

July 2021

• Dr Pahk(PI) has received The KSTU Academic Award (학술상) from The Korean Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound 

July 2021

• Dr Pahk's(PI) paper entitled "Control of the dynamics of a boiling vapour bubble using pressure-modulated high intensity focused ultrasound without the shock scattering effect: A first proof-of-concept study." has been accepted for publication at Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (JCR 1.562%).

• A paper (co-work with University College London) entitled "Modelling the physics of bubble nucleation in histotripsy" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.

June 2021

• Dr Jeong Min Heo's work entitled "Investigation of the long term healing response of the liver to boiling histotripsy treatment in vivo" has been presented at the 20th Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2021) (Oral presentation).

• Hyojun's work on "Cytoskeleton Rearrangement of Cells in 3D Tissue Phantom Induced by Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound" has been presented at the 20th Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2021) (Poster presentation).

• Dr Jeong Min Heo's work entitled "In-Vivo Liver Tissue Decellularisation by Pressure-Modulated Shockwave Histotripsy" has been presented at the 20th Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2021) (Poster presentation).

• Dr Pahk's(PI) work on "Localised Mechanical Tissue Fractionation by Pressure-Modulated Shockwave Histotripsy: An In-Vivo Study" has been presented at the 20th Annual International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU2021) (Oral presentation).

May 2021

• Dr Pahk's(PI) paper entitled "Simultaneous measurements of acoustic emission and sonochemical luminescence for monitoring ultrasonic cavitation" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (co-corresponding). 

April 2021

• Dr Jun hong Park has joined our lab as a Postdoctoral researcher. Welcome on board! (4/12)

Mar 2021

• Dr Pahk(PI) gave a talk entitled "Noninvasive Mechanical Tissue Destruction Using Focused Ultrasound" at Seoul National University Hospital (3/15)

Jan 2021

• Dr Pahk's(PI) paper entitled "Evidence of  the formation of the shock scattering induced violent cavitation cluster during boiling histotripsy insonation: A numerical case study" has been published at Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 

• Dr Pahk(PI) has been appointed as an Associate Professor at Division of Bio-Medical Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul, Korea (starting from March) [link]

Nov 2020

• Dr Pahk(PI) gave an invited talk entitled "A Non-invasive Mechanical Ablation of Biological Tissue using Therapeutic Ultrasound " at  2020 Annual Fall Meeting of the Korean Biochip Society (한국바이오칩학회) (11/27)

• Dr Pahk(PI) has received The Young Investigator Award - Grand Prix (젊은 연구자상 - 대상) from The Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (11/20)

• Dr Jeong Min Heo has joined our lab as a Postdoctoral researcher. Welcome! (11/2)

• Our recent publication has been featured in IMAGING TECHNOLOGY NEWS (11/2) [link]  

Oct 2020

• Dr Pahk(PI) has received The Excellence in Research of the Year Award (우수 논문 저술상) from The Korean Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (10/31). 

• Dr Pahk(PI) gave a talk entitled "The role of acoustic cavitation in therapeutic ultrasound" at Dept. Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital (10/29)

• A paper (co-work with DGMIF) entitled "A local difference in blood-brain barrier permeability in the caudate putamen and thalamus of a rat brain induced by focused ultrasound" has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. 

Sept 2020

• Our most recent publication has been featured in a number of news articles [link 1], [link 2] (9/24)

• Dr Pahk gave a talk entitled "Therapeutic Ultrasound - its exciting potential applications" at Korea University College of Medicine (9/23)

• Hyojun Kim has joined our lab as a graduate researcher (MS candidate). Welcome!

• Dohee Kim has joined our lab as an intern researcher (undergraduate). Welcome!