Professor Yao pioneered the theory of tumor electroporation twenty years ago
Globally Recognized
In 2000, Professor Yao Chenguo was the first internationally to propose a novel method for tumor ablation using high-voltage, ultra-short pulsed electric field-induced irreversible electroporation (IRE) and elucidated its underlying bioelectromagnetic mechanisms
In 2004, the first international academic journal paper on killing tumor cells with pulsed electric fields was published in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, igniting a research surge in pulsed electric field tumor therapy both domestically and globally
Professor Rubinsky, an internationally renowned electroporation expert from the University of California, Berkeley, followed up with related research and collaborated with AngioDynamics to invest in producing the world's first commercial pulsed electric field tumor therapy device—the Nanoknife.