W. Apoutou N’DJIN received the M. Eng. degree in Instrumentation from the National Graduate School of Engineering & Research Center of Caen (Ensicaen) in 2004, the M.S. degree in image & signal processing from the Centrale Graduate School of Lyon, France, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon I, in 2008. He worked from 2005 at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, INSERM U556, Lyon, on the development of USgHIFU for intraoperative thermal ablations of liver metastases. From 2009, he joined for 3 years the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), Imaging Research, Toronto, Canada, as a post-doctoral research fellow to study conformal MRgHICU therapies for endocavitary/interstitial thermal ablations of localized tumors in prostate and brain. Since 2012, he works as a Research Associate at LabTAU, INSERM U1032, Lyon. His research interests include image-guided HIFU for focal/conformal ablative therapies (localized cancers; dysfunctional tissues), novel ultrasound technologies (CMUTs), mechanisms and applications of ultrasound neurostimulation. Dr. N’Djin is involved in translational research from numerical modeling to experimental development of therapeutic and image-guidance strategies. In 2019, he received the Frederic LIZZI Early Career Award of the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) at the 19th International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU 2019, Barcelona, Spain), for his contributions in therapeutic ultrasound.
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