Earlier this year, I attended a new-to-me scientific meeting—the 21st meeting of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) in the beautiful city of Toronto. As I sat in sessions immersed in topics ranging from immunotherapy of liver tumors with histotripsy, to sonogenetic neuromodulation, to focused ultrasound for alleviating the pain from bone metastases, I was overwhelmed. And I was humbled by the vast swaths of knowledge that were nearly completely foreign to me, despite being a senior academic who does research in the field of biomedical ultrasound. I know less about the immune system than I should, and I don’t quite get the nuances of genetics and the brain—well, let’s just say that I like to use mine, but I am unaware of how it all works. I spent a lot of the meeting learning the background to the background of these areas so that I could understand more and better appreciate all the amazing science [...]
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