Author: Victor Frenkel

Victor Frenkel, Ph D (Author) was born in Montreal, Canada in 1960. After receiving an associate degree in physics, he moved to Israel. For many years, he lived on a kibbutz in the southern desert, served in the military, and completed his undergraduate and graduate studies. He first began working with ultrasound during his dissertation research at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He came to Baltimore for a postdoctoral fellowship in 1999 at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. He then moved on to work as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health, applying his expertise and knowledge for translational applications in human health. For three years, he taught biomedical engineering to undergraduate and graduate students at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. After that, he accepted a position as Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and took on the role of founding director of the Translational Focused Ultrasound Research program. He is currently on the faculty at the Center for Nanomedicine at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For almost thirty years, he has investigated how ultrasound can be used to enhance the delivery of therapeutics in various treatment applications. He has published over one hundred peer-reviewed original research articles, invited review papers, conference proceedings, editorials, book chapters, and books. He lives in central Maryland with his two teenage sons and his twelve-year-old rescue lab, Grover.