Jai Rudra, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will study the emerging area with an NSF CAREER Award.

The research, led by Hong Chen, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is the first work to show that sonothermogenetics can control behavior by stimulating a specific target deep in the brain.

Jianmin Cui, professor of biomedical engineering, was a member of a multidisciplinary team that identified the compound, which may lead to safer use and expanded therapeutic efficacy for certain drugs.