Affiliation: Harvard University

Tao Sun is a Research Fellow in Radiology at Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women’s Hospital), and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His primary research goal is to develop translational focused ultrasound (FUS) technologies in the advancement of drug delivery and immunomodulation for treating cancer and neurological diseases. Dr. Sun is currently working with Profs. Nathan McDannold and Samir Mitragotri developing drug delivery systems via bio-synthetic and bio-inspired nanoparticles after FUS-enhanced biological barrier disruption, and investigating the theranostic and immunomodulation feasibilities during microbubble-mediated ultrasound therapies. Previously during his graduate training, Dr. Sun developed a series of acoustic techniques for treatment control during FUS brain therapies. Together with Profs. Nathan McDannold and Eric Miller, he designed and validated modulated cavitation generation, monitoring, and feed-back control methods during targeted ultrasound drug delivery across the blood-brain/tumor barrier. Some of his works were featured in mainstream science and technology media including WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/the-second-coming-of-ultrasound/), Science Daily, and Medical Xpress.