Dr. Asis Lopez

Dr. Asis Lopez received a BS in Bioengineering with an emphasis in Rehabilitation from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As an undergraduate, he conducted three years of research on medical robotics. After graduation, he worked with the University of California, San Francisco, collaborating with UCSF Children's Hospital Pediatric Device Consortium to create a non-implantable prototype medical device for the medical condition pectus carinatum. Through this interdisciplinary collaboration, he found my passion for translational research, which brought him to the Bioinnovation PhD Program at Tulane University. Asis joined Dr. Khismatullin's laboratory in 2015. His initial project was to investigate whether focused/unfocused ultrasound can stimulate nerve regeneration of spinal cord axons. He then joined the collaborative project between Drs. Myers (FDA) and Khismatullin's laboratories on vessel rupture thresholds by high-intensity therapeutic ultrasound (HITU) and microbubbles. Asis developed an earthworm model for blood vessel rupture analysis and, using this model, he obtained a novel modified mechanical index (MMI) to characterize HITU bioeffects. He successfully defended his PhD dissertation in December 2021. 
 

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