MURL

Medical ultrasound

RESEARCH LABORATORY

ABOUT

MURL is focused on the intersection of therapeutic ultrasound, diagnostic ultrasound, genomics, sensors, basic engineering, and medicine. MURL develops smart therapeutic & diagnostic ultrasound techniques for broad clinical themes including cancer, maternal/fetal, and musculoskeletal applications. Our vision is to develop and translate medical ultrasound techniques and devices to the clinic, leading to improved patient care and outcomes.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Our lab is led by Dr. Avinash Eranki, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Eranki Labs private limited, a company that focuses on developing and translating novel ultrasound devices and technology to the clinic.

Dr.Eranki worked with Prof.Chrit. T.W. Moonen, and Dr.Mario Ries at University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands, Dr.Bradford J.Wood at the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, and Dr.Peter C.W. Kim at Children's National Medical Center on developing novel therapeutic ultrasound techniques for cancer therapy.

EVENTS

Dr. Avinash Eranki was awarded the 2020 Bracco Imaging Distinguished Young Investigator Award in November 2020 by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and, Bracco Suisse SA for his scientific contributions to the field.

Editorial Board member of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Journal since 2018.

Aniket Sabale’s work “Characterizing Shear Stress in HIFU Sonications using Finite Element Modelling”, with co-authors V Chinthapenta, MS Rizvi and A Eranki, was presented online at the 8th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound 2022, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Vigneshwaran G’s work “vOnG: A comprehensive database of variants in cancer-associated genes”, with corresponding author Avinash Eranki, was accepted for presentation at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Human Genetics (JSHG2022), Pacifico Yokohoma, Kanagawa, Japan

Vigneshwaran G’s work “Genomic landscape based Insilico prediction framework for personalized therapeutic regimen in cancer patients”, with co-authors Qurratulain Annie Hasan and Avinash Eranki, was presented at the 8th Annual International Conference of the Board of Genetic Counselling India 2023, Hyderabad, TG, India

Megha R has been selected for the prestigious Prime Minister Research Fellowship in the May 2022 cycle

Four works from MURL members, Aniket, Megha and Shradha has been selected for presentation at the IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 held at IIT Gandhinagar

Dr. Avinash Eranki was awarded Faculty Research Excellence Award at the 16th Foundation Day Ceremony of IIT Hyderabad

Aniket Sabale’s work “Ultrasound Wave Propagation and Shear Stress through Tissues for Intercostal Focused Ultrasound Therapy”, with co-authors Suhail Rizvi Mohd, Viswanath R R S R Chinthapenta, and Avinash Eranki has been awarded 3rd prize in the best paper competition at the IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium 2024 held at IIT Gandhinagar

GRANTS

MURL is currently funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) to develop novel technology for diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound.