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Insightec

MR-guided focused ultrasound company, with oncology use in blood-brain-barrier opening for brain tumours.

Exablate Neuro (essential tremor), Exablate Prostate, BBB-opening trials for glioblastoma drug delivery.

Headquarters

Haifa, IL

Type

devices

Website

www.insightec.com

Connected

cancers

1

Glioma & glioblastoma

fronts

2

Devices & Physical Therapies Surgery & Interventional

technologies

3

Focused ultrasound & histotripsy Focused-ultrasound blood-brain barrier opening Sonodynamic therapy

institutions

2

Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center

ideas

4

A standard platform to get drugs into the brain: focused ultrasound plus shuttle-engineered therapeutics Device-agnostic public trials of ablation technologies against surgery Open the barrier so engineered immune cells can enter the brain Ultrasound-assisted blood test instead of a brain biopsy

bottlenecks

1

The brain: barrier and sanctuary