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Ying Meng

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Ying Meng

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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23 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2026.

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Research

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Focused Ultrasound Liquid Biopsy 7t Magnetic Resonance Imaging Blood-Brain Barrier Cerebral Blood Flow High-Grade Gliomas Microvasculature Passive Cavitation Imaging

Latest papers

Focused Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening for Targeted Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Biological psychiatry · 2026 · senior author
Focused ultrasound in neuro-oncology: Realizing the promise of a noninvasive future.
Neuro-oncology advances · 2026 · first author
Microstructural, Morphological, and Metabolic Changes Following Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy.
Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026

All 71 publications

Latest funding

Network-Guided Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$550,800
A personalized approach to focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening using 7T MRI in patients with high-grade gliomas
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$382,500
Towards focused ultrasound aided liquid biopsy of premalignant/malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$480,000

All 5 grants and awards

71 publications.

Focused Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening for Targeted Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Halabian N, Park C, Omoto L, Bocca LF, Palacios G, Wu K, Hamani C, Rabin J, Abrahao A, Davidson B, Lipsman N, Meng Y

Biological psychiatry2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2026.07.008 PMID: 42468901

Focused ultrasound in neuro-oncology: Realizing the promise of a noninvasive future.

Meng Y, Lipsman N

Neuro-oncology advances2026First author

DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdaf231 PMID: 42281804

Microstructural, Morphological, and Metabolic Changes Following Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy.

Davidson B, Clappison A, Mithani K, Bocca LF, Giacobbe P, Nestor S, Meng Y, Ottoy J, Rabin JS, Burke M, Uludag K, Hamani C, Lipsman N, Goubran M

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.01.011 PMID: 41672276

Biologically Effective Dose and Dose Rate in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Jomy J, Lin KX, Sharma R, Lu R, Kaushal S, Santiago AT, Keilty D, Shultz D, Coolens C, Cusimano MD, Zadeh G, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Nassiri F, Meng Y, Tsang DS, Yan M

Advances in radiation oncology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2025.101932 PMID: 41362409

Focused ultrasound capsulotomy: predicting the probability of successful lesioning based on skull morphology.

De Schlichting E, Huang Y, Jones RM, Meng Y, Cao X, Baskaran A, Hynynen K, Hamani C, Lipsman N, Goubran M, Davidson B

Journal of neurosurgery2026

DOI: 10.3171/2025.6.jns2588 PMID: 41072044

Microbubble-enhanced transcranial focused ultrasound with temozolomide for patients with high-grade glioma (BT008NA): a multicentre, open-label, phase 1/2 trial.

Woodworth GF, Anastasiadis P, Ozair A, Chabros J, Bettegowda C, Chen C, Gerstl JVE, Douville C, Mekary RA, Smith TR, Meng Y, Hawkins C, Pople CB, Abrahao A, Llinas M, Heyn C, Bunevicius A, Rezai AR, Ball AJS, Henry K, Sahgal A, Torio E, Ren H, Ahmad H, Arora H, Eisenberg H, Perry J, Carpenter JS, Hynynen K, Pham LC, Anketell MB, Lim-Fat MJ, Xu Z, Cifarelli CP, Sheehan JP, McDannold NJ, Gandhi D, Golby AJ, Lipsman N

The Lancet. Oncology2025

DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00492-9 PMID: 41308679

Acoustic emissions dose and spatial control of blood-brain barrier opening with focused ultrasound.

Woodworth GF, Anastasiadis P, Ozair A, Chen C, Gandhi D, Meng Y, Abrahao A, Carpenter JS, Cifarelli CP, Eisenberg H, Lim-Fat MJ, Hynynen K, Rezai AR, Sahgal A, Sheehan JP, Torio E, Xu Z, Lipsman N, Arvantis C, McDannold NJ, Golby AJ

Device2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.device.2025.100894 PMID: 41395575

Magnetic resonance-guided ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor: a review.

De Schlichting E, Meng Y, Huang Y, Jones RM, Hynynen K, Hamani C, Abrahao A, Davidson B, Lipsman N

Expert review of medical devices2025

DOI: 10.1080/17434440.2025.2530765 PMID: 40621904

Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder.

Hamani C, Davidson B, Rabin JS, Goubran M, Boone L, Hynynen K, De Schlichting E, Meng Y, Huang Y, Jones RM, Baskaran A, Marawi T, Richter MA, Levitt A, Nestor SM, Giacobbe P, Lipsman N

Biological psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.08.015 PMID: 39187171

Neuromodulation as a therapeutic approach for post-traumatic stress disorder: the evidence to date.

Manocchio F, Enepekides J, Nestor S, Giacobbe P, Rabin JS, Burke MJ, Lanctôt KL, Goubran M, Meng Y, Lipsman N, Hamani C, Davidson B

Expert review of neurotherapeutics2025

DOI: 10.1080/14737175.2024.2442658 PMID: 39704493

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Ying Meng

Research

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Latest funding

Focused Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening for Targeted Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Focused ultrasound in neuro-oncology: Realizing the promise of a noninvasive future.

Microstructural, Morphological, and Metabolic Changes Following Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy.

Biologically Effective Dose and Dose Rate in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Focused ultrasound capsulotomy: predicting the probability of successful lesioning based on skull morphology.

Microbubble-enhanced transcranial focused ultrasound with temozolomide for patients with high-grade glioma (BT008NA): a multicentre, open-label, phase 1/2 trial.

Acoustic emissions dose and spatial control of blood-brain barrier opening with focused ultrasound.

Magnetic resonance-guided ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor: a review.

Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder.

Neuromodulation as a therapeutic approach for post-traumatic stress disorder: the evidence to date.

Network-Guided Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

A personalized approach to focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening using 7T MRI in patients with high-grade gliomas

Towards focused ultrasound aided liquid biopsy of premalignant/malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours

Towards focused ultrasound aided liquid biopsy of premalignant/malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours

A trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of blood-brain brain opening using MRI-guided focused ultrasound in the treatment of Her2-positive breast cancer brain metastases

Frequent collaborators

Nir Lipsman

Clement Hamani

Benjamin Davidson

Kullervo Hynynen

Peter Giacobbe

Maged Goubran

Isabelle Aubert

Arjun Sahgal

Chinthaka Heyn

Anthony Levitt

Farshad Nassiri

Julie Ottoy

Gelareh Zadeh

Alexandre Boutet

Sean Nestor

Alfonso Fasano

Maureen Trudeau

Mark Bernstein

Ryan Alkins

Arun Seth

Matthew Burke

Kamil Uludag

Michael Yan

Walter Swardfager

Alireza Mansouri

Fidel Vila-Rodriguez

Jennifer Rabin

Jennifer Geddes-McAlister

Hon Leong

Tejas Sankar