David Maresca's lab pushes the boundaries of biomedical ultrasound imaging. Research: (1) functional ultrasound imaging of the brain at cellular resolution (vascular signal decoding, brain-computer interface applications); (2) engineering gas vesicle and microbubble acoustic contrast agents as genetically-encoded biosensors; (3) ultrafast ultrasound for cardiac imaging. The lab aims to image individual cells deep inside living organs using next-generation ultrasound. NWO Vici Grant (2026); Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Dynamic Imaging grant.

Tang develops super-resolution ultrasound imaging (localisation of microbubble contrast agents to resolve microvasculature below the diffraction limit) alongside contrast/functional ultrasound methods, applied to cancer, cardiovascular and neurological imaging.