Personal statement
My research focus is the development of advanced diagnostic tools for the earlier diagnosis and targeted treatment of cancer. I work closely with clinicians to better understand clinical needs and with engineers and life scientists to develop solutions to these challenges.
Current funding supports research projects on the development of elasticity imaging using contrast-enhanced magneto-motive ultrasound for the early detection of colorectal cancer, a pilot clinical trial to establish effectiveness of contrast enhanced ultrasound to detect sentinel lymph nodes in rectal cancer, development of physiological flow phantoms to investigate factors capable of influencing ultrasound and microbubble mediated drug delivery, delivery of siRNA using ultrasound and microbubbles to treat hypertension in a mouse model and investigation of low frequency ultrasound to stimulate bone repair. I also have expertise in non-linear acoustics, contrast imaging, microbubbles, medical device design and fabrication, therapeutic ultrasound and elastography.
Currently available PhD studentships:
I am always keen to hear from prospective PhD students and post doctoral researchers with complimentary research interests, please get in touch to discuss.
Professional activities
- Contrast enhanced magneto-motive ultrasound for colorectal cancer detection: pre-clinical development
- Speaker
- 25/4/2022
- IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
- Participant
- 31/3/2022
- Pre-clinical development of contrast enhanced magneto-motive ultrasound imaging to aid in colorectal cancer detection and staging
- Speaker
- 3/2022
- Physiologically-relevant 3D-printed microchannels to study microbubble ultrasound backscatter
- Contributor
- 24/5/2021
- Establishing The University of Strathclyde Early Diagnostics Consortium
- Chair
- 21/5/2021
- Panel Discussion: Strategies to Create Supportive Academic and Workplace Experiences and Environments for Women Engineers
- Speaker
- 29/9/2020
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Projects
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Alfuwaires, Ahmed
- Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Principal Investigator) Mulvana, Helen Elizabeth (Co-investigator) Alfuwaires, Ahmed (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics & Orthotics | Hicks, Ben
- Mulvana, Helen Elizabeth (Principal Investigator) Buis, Arjan (Co-investigator) Hicks, Ben (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Ultrasonic Engineering (FUSE) | Orthodoxou, Andrea
- Mulvana, Helen Elizabeth (Principal Investigator) Orthodoxou, Andrea (Research Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2021 - 13-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Gilmour, Lauren
- Mulvana, Helen Elizabeth (Principal Investigator) Jackson, Joseph (Co-investigator) Gilmour, Lauren (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- Transformative Anatomically accurate Microvascular flow Phantoms for Ultrasound therapy research (TAMP-US)
- Mulvana, Helen Elizabeth (Principal Investigator) Jackson, Joseph (Co-investigator) O'Leary, Richard (Co-investigator) Sandison, Mairi (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
- VisNET Collaboration Event Social Dinner
- Mulvana, Helen Elizabeth (Principal Investigator) Aranceta-Garza, Alejandra (Co-investigator) Zimbitas, Georgina (Co-investigator) Fabbri, Federica (Co-investigator) Keating, Ciara (Co-investigator) Echavarri Bravo, Virginia (Co-investigator)
- International collaboration Dinner event funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for a total value of £2,903.30
- 24-Jan-2019 - 25-Jan-2019
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