Imaging Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability For Neurotherapeutic Delivery


Afraa Alzoubi
PhD Student, Imperial College London
Read BioAfraa is a second-year PhD. student at the bioengineering department of Imperial College London. She did her undergraduate studies in pharmaceutical sciences, and her Masters in gene, drugs, and stem cells at the faculty of medicine. Her main research interest is molecular signaling pathways in brain endothelial cells. She is currently working on blood-brain barrier opening using focused ultrasound and microbubbles for neurotherapeutic delivery. She is supervised by Dr. James Choi.
CloseRecorded live from Imperial College London.
Afraa Alzoubi and her colleagues use focused ultrasound and microbubbles to facilitate the passage of drugs across the blood-brain barrier. In this short case study, Afraa shows how they use fluorescent imaging to confirm drug delivery into brain parenchyma and color imaging of stained sections to look at tissue morphology. She also shows how they can switch quickly between these different imaging modes using the Mica Imaging Microhub from Leica Microsystems.