IMAGING THERAPEUTICS

The Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics at UPMC is a multidisciplinary translational research facility designed to develop the science and technology of ultrasound contrast agents and ultrasound imaging systems with the goal of moving basic discoveries in ultrasound-based molecular imaging and treatments into clinical practice... Led by Flordeliza S. Villanueva, MD, director of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging at the UPMC Cardiovascular Institute, the Center's research staff are primarily engaged in the development and application of ultrasound contrast agents, or "microbubbles," - which offer a promising method for imaging early disease with ultrasound molecular imaging as well as for delivering targeted drug or gene therapy.