Ester Yang, VMD, DACVIM

Ruger, L., Yang, E., Coutermarsh-Ott, S., Vickers, E., Gannon, J., Nightengale, M., Hsueh, A., Ciepluch, B., Dervisis, N., Vlaisavljevich, E., Klahn, S. Histotripsy ablation for the treatment of feline injection site sarcomas: a first-in-cat in vivo feasibility study International Journal of Hyperthermia 40: 2210272, 2023.

Ruger, L., Yang, E., Gannon, J., Sheppard, H., Coutermarsh-Ott, S., Ziemlewicz, T. J., Dervisis, N., Allen, I. C., Daniel, G. B., Tuohy, J., Vlaisavljevich, E., Klahn, S. Mechanical High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (Histotripsy) in Dogs With Spontaneously Occurring Soft Tissue Sarcomas IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 70: 768-779, 2023.

Yang, E., Kubicek, L., Pavletic, M. M. Use of imaging-guided intensity-modulated stereotactic body radiation therapy to treat a well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma in a dog Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 259: 392-395, 2021.

Stewart, A. M., Yang, E., Nguyen, M., Kalueff, A. V. Developing zebrafish models relevant to PTSD and other trauma- and stressor-related disorders Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 55: 67-79, 2014.

Nguyen, M., Yang, E., Neelkantan, N., Mikhaylova, A., Arnold, R., Poudel, M. K., Stewart, A. M., Kalueff, A. V. Developing ”integrative” zebrafish models of behavioral and metabolic disorders Behavioural Brain Research 256: 172-87, 2013.

Research interest include immuno-oncology characterizing local and systemic immune response to targeted ablation therapies to different tumor types; assessment of response to treatment with alternative chemotherapy protocols as first or rescue treatments in dogs with different cancer types.