Rate My Professor Lei Sun

With over 25 years of experience in medical ultrasound technology encompassing system development, signal and image processing, and biomedical applications, Prof. Sun's research focuses on ultrasound neuromodulation and brain stimulation, ultrasound bio-effects for cancer therapy and diabetes treatment, and multimodality molecular imaging and theranostics. As Principal Investigator, he has secured research funding exceeding HK$76 million from bodies including the Research Grants Council General Research Fund, Collaborative Research Fund, Health and Medical Research Fund, Innovation and Technology Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Ministry of Science and Technology. He holds more than ten granted or filed US and Chinese patents and has authored over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings in journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Science, Biomaterials, Cell Reports, npj Regenerative Medicine, and Acta Biomaterialia. Key publications include 'Targeted neurostimulation in mouse brains with non-invasive ultrasound' (Cell Reports, 2020), 'The mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 significantly mediates in vitro ultrasonic stimulation of neurons' (iScience, 2019), and 'The mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 contributes to ultrasound neuromodulation' (2023). He is General Chair of the Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Conference 2025 and a member of committees in the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering and Chinese Society of Ultrasound in Medicine.