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Meaghan O'Reilly
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Latest papers
Vasculotide restores the blood-brain barrier after focused ultrasound-induced permeability in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
International journal of medical sciences · 2021
Super-resolution Ultrasound Imaging.
Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2020
Brainstem blood brain barrier disruption using focused ultrasound: A demonstration of feasibility and enhanced doxorubicin delivery.
Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2018
Latest funding
- $860,626
Establishing the chronic safety profile of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-spinal cord barrier opening in a large animal model.
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
- $500,000
Canada Research Chair - Tier 2
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
- $118,000
Focusing therapeutic ultrasound exposures through vertebral bone
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Vasculotide restores the blood-brain barrier after focused ultrasound-induced permeability in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
Lynch M, Heinen S, Markham-Coultes K, O'Reilly M, Van Slyke P, Dumont DJ, Hynynen K, Aubert I
Super-resolution Ultrasound Imaging.
Christensen-Jeffries K, Couture O, Dayton PA, Eldar YC, Hynynen K, Kiessling F, O'Reilly M, Pinton GF, Schmitz G, Tang MX, Tanter M, van Sloun RJG
Brainstem blood brain barrier disruption using focused ultrasound: A demonstration of feasibility and enhanced doxorubicin delivery.
Alli S, Figueiredo CA, Golbourn B, Sabha N, Wu MY, Bondoc A, Luck A, Coluccia D, Maslink C, Smith C, Wurdak H, Hynynen K, O'Reilly M, Rutka JT
Amyloid-β plaque reduction, endogenous antibody delivery and glial activation by brain-targeted, transcranial focused ultrasound.
Jordão JF, Thévenot E, Markham-Coultes K, Scarcelli T, Weng YQ, Xhima K, O'Reilly M, Huang Y, McLaurin J, Hynynen K, Aubert I
Establishing the chronic safety profile of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-spinal cord barrier opening in a large animal model.
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan; Lin, Fa-Hsuan
Keywords: Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier; Focused Ultrasound; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Microbubbles
Canada Research Chair - Tier 2
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan
Keywords: Crc
Focusing therapeutic ultrasound exposures through vertebral bone
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan
Keywords: Acoustic modelling; Phased array; Spine; Therapeutic ultrasound
Mechanisms of focused ultRasound mEdiated BrAin cLeAniNg Coupled with enhanced mEchanosensation (REBALANCE)
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan
Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Focused Ultrasound; Piezo1
Establishing the chronic safety profile of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-spinal cord barrier opening in a large animal model
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan; Lin, Fa-Hsuan
Keywords: Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier; Focused Ultrasound; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Microbubbles
Characterizing focused ultrasound-induced mechanical changes in brain tissue and resulting impact on axonal growth
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan
Keywords: Focused ultrasound Blood-brain barrier axonal growth image guided therapy microbubbles
High-resolution ultrasound imaging of micro-bubble cavitation using separate emission / reception transducers
Principal investigators: Quaegebeur, Nicolas
Canada Research Chair - Tier 2
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan
Keywords: Crc
Ultrasound-Mediated Drug Delivery to the Spinal Cord
Principal investigators: O'Reilly, Meaghan
Keywords: Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier; Drug Delivery; Focused Utrasound,; Image-Guided Therapy; Spinal Cord
Enhancing immunotherapy with ultrasound stimulated bubbles
Principal investigators: Goertz, David E
Keywords: Cancer; Immunotherapy; Microbubbles; Therapeutic Ultrasound
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Isabelle Aubert and Kullervo Hynynen: 32 shared papers
- Isabelle Aubert and Joanne McLaurin: 10 shared papers
- Joanne McLaurin and Kullervo Hynynen: 4 shared papers
- Kullervo Hynynen and Meaghan O'Reilly: 4 shared papers
- Isabelle Aubert and Meaghan O'Reilly: 2 shared papers
- Joanne McLaurin and Meaghan O'Reilly: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Medical Biophysics
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
- Other
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