{"id":1407,"date":"2025-06-24T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:59:16","slug":"richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2025 &#8211; Congrats to BIG faculty Richard Price and John Lukens for being awarded a new $3.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging! Focused ultrasound in combination with microbubbles, an emerging and clinically relevant modality, has been shown to enhance the delivery of therapies to the brain. Price and Lukens, along with their research teams, plan to develop and deploy focused ultrasound strategies to deliver <em>INPP5D<\/em> neutralizing gene therapies to microglia in their research models. The aim is to improve microglial immune functions, restore neuronal health, and improve Alzheimer\u2019s disease pathology. <a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bims\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/\">Visit this link to learn more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2025 &#8211; Congrats to BIG faculty Richard Price and John Lukens for being awarded a new $3.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging! Focused ultrasound in combination with microbubbles, an emerging and clinically relevant modality, has been shown to enhance the delivery of therapies to the brain. Price and Lukens, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-intranet"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound - Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound - Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"June 2025 &#8211; Congrats to BIG faculty Richard Price and John Lukens for being awarded a new $3.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging! Focused ultrasound in combination with microbubbles, an emerging and clinically relevant modality, has been shown to enhance the delivery of therapies to the brain. Price and Lukens, along with [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-24T17:45:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-22T20:59:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sdg9ec@virginia.edu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sdg9ec@virginia.edu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sdg9ec@virginia.edu\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9609f72266c8cd84a6abda926b14002b\"},\"headline\":\"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-24T17:45:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-22T20:59:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":116,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"Intranet\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Events\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/\",\"name\":\"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound - Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-24T17:45:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-22T20:59:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9609f72266c8cd84a6abda926b14002b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/24\\\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/\",\"name\":\"Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)\",\"description\":\"University of Virginia School of Medicine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9609f72266c8cd84a6abda926b14002b\",\"name\":\"sdg9ec@virginia.edu\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2e9bad1d614e1b5c36423849e3268d3fa5d14170945d18763f2ac879a67fb211?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2e9bad1d614e1b5c36423849e3268d3fa5d14170945d18763f2ac879a67fb211?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2e9bad1d614e1b5c36423849e3268d3fa5d14170945d18763f2ac879a67fb211?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"sdg9ec@virginia.edu\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/med.virginia.edu\\\/big\\\/author\\\/sdg9ecvirginia-edu\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound - Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound - Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)","og_description":"June 2025 &#8211; Congrats to BIG faculty Richard Price and John Lukens for being awarded a new $3.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging! Focused ultrasound in combination with microbubbles, an emerging and clinically relevant modality, has been shown to enhance the delivery of therapies to the brain. Price and Lukens, along with [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/","og_site_name":"Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)","article_published_time":"2025-06-24T17:45:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-05-22T20:59:16+00:00","author":"sdg9ec@virginia.edu","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"sdg9ec@virginia.edu","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/"},"author":{"name":"sdg9ec@virginia.edu","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/#\/schema\/person\/9609f72266c8cd84a6abda926b14002b"},"headline":"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound","datePublished":"2025-06-24T17:45:29+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-22T20:59:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/"},"wordCount":116,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["Intranet"],"articleSection":["Events"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/","name":"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound - Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-06-24T17:45:29+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-22T20:59:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/#\/schema\/person\/9609f72266c8cd84a6abda926b14002b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/2025\/06\/24\/richard-price-phd-and-john-lukens-phd-awarded-3-7-million-for-alzheimers-research-using-focused-ultrasound\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Richard Price, PhD, and John Lukens, PhD, Awarded $3.7 Million for Alzheimer\u2019s Research Using Focused Ultrasound"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/#website","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/","name":"Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)","description":"University of Virginia School of Medicine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/#\/schema\/person\/9609f72266c8cd84a6abda926b14002b","name":"sdg9ec@virginia.edu","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e9bad1d614e1b5c36423849e3268d3fa5d14170945d18763f2ac879a67fb211?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e9bad1d614e1b5c36423849e3268d3fa5d14170945d18763f2ac879a67fb211?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e9bad1d614e1b5c36423849e3268d3fa5d14170945d18763f2ac879a67fb211?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"sdg9ec@virginia.edu"},"url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/author\/sdg9ecvirginia-edu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}