GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Zhen Wu, the co-inventor of a soundwave-based cancer treatment from the University of Michigan, has received the 2026 Golden Goose Award.
The Golden Goose Award is handed out annually by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to recognize the “unexpected, seemingly odd federally funded research that ultimately leads to transformative breakthroughs for science and society.”
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Wu, an engineering professor at U-M, is the founding director of the Histotripsy Center. She and her colleagues co-invented histoptripsy in 2002 and launched a startup company called HistoSonics in 2009.
A histotripsy tool called the Edison was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 2023, to destroy liver tumors while avoiding chemotherapy, radiation and therapy. Since then, Edison systems have been installed in more than 130 hospitals and helped more than 5,000 patients…