Additionally, he is the Associate Director for the Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnolgoy. Dr. Porter completed his graduate work in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington in 2003. He was awarded the Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship and the R. Bruce Lindsay award from the Acoustical Society of America in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Porter was inducted as a Fellow of the ASA in 2017 for his contributions to biomedical ultrasound and image-guided therapy. His research interests exist at the intersection between biomedical ultrasound, chemistry, biophysics, and nanomedicine. He is leading several projects focused on the development of stimuli-responsive colloids for diagnostic ultrasound, localized drug delivery, and focal ablation of solid tumors.