Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
لورا إندولفي: أخبار جيدة في المعركة ضد سرطان البنكرياس
Laura Indolfi is revolutionizing cancer treatment with new technologies including implantable devices for delivering drugs locally to the site of a tumor. Full bio
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at least one person on the screen?
واحدا في الشاشة؟
in their fields.
all of them have in common?
very sad this news,
محزنة جداَ،
of how lethal this disease can be.
of cancer deaths,
الناجمة عن السرطان،
will survive beyond five years.
سيبقون على قيد الحياة لأكثرمن خمسة أعوام.
with breast cancer,
is almost 90 percent.
ما يقرب من 90 في المئة.
with pancreatic cancer
certain death sentence.
is that in the last 40 years,
هو أن في 40 عاماَ،
treatment more effective?
سرطان البنكرياس أكثر فعالية؟
that seem impossible,
التي تبدو مستحيلة،
innovative solutions
with pancreatic cancer
بسرطان البنكرياس
of your belly, literally.
organs in front.
by many other vital organs,
من الأعضاء الحيوية الأخرى،
the bile duct.
to grow into those organs
also prevents the doctor
ولأنه أيضاَ يمنع الطبيب
for breast cancer, for example.
على سبيل المثال.
chemotherapy as the only option
العلاج الكيميائي هو الخيار الوحيد
piece of bad news.
very few blood vessels.
عدد قليل جداَ من الأوعية الدموية.
about the blood vessel of a tumor?
بالأوعية الدموية للورم؟
how chemotherapy works.
عمل العلاج الكيميائي.
until it reaches the tumor site.
حتى تصل إلى موقع الورم.
trying to reach a destination.
في محاولة للوصول إلى الوجهة.
doesn't have an exit on the highway?
مخرج على الطريق السريع؟
throughout all of your body.
for the patients overall,
to have a whole-body treatment
أن يتم علاج الجسم بأكمله
and effort have gone towards
و الجهد بذلت في سبيل
to treat pancreatic cancer,
لعلاج سرطان البنكرياس،
in changing the way
good news, hopefully.
General Hospital in Boston,
the way we treat cancer
drug delivery a reality.
on top of your destination,
all around the highway.
جميع أنحاء الطريق السريع.
into devices that look like this one.
that they can be folded
directly on top of the tumor
مباشرة على الجزء العلوي من الورم
that once they are positioned
أنه بمجرد أن يتم وضعها
physically prevent the tumor
slowly and more effectively
و بفعالية أكثر
whole-body treatment.
we have demonstrated
the response to treatment.
الاستجابة للعلاج.
where it's needed the most,
للمكان الذي يحتاجه أكثر،
that is 12 times more powerful,
أكثرة فعالية ب12 مرة،
this technology to the next level.
التكنولوجيا الى مستوى أعلى.
على التجارب قبل السريرية
prior to asking the FDA for approval
ادارة الاغذية والعقاقير
will die from pancreatic cancer.
من سرطان البنكرياس.
extend their life
و تمديد حياتهم
التي نوصل فيها العلاج،
more powerful and less toxic,
to finding new innovative solutions
جديدة مبتكرة
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Laura Indolfi - Biomedical entrepreneurLaura Indolfi is revolutionizing cancer treatment with new technologies including implantable devices for delivering drugs locally to the site of a tumor.
Why you should listen
Laura Indolfi is a biomedical entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of PanTher Therapeutics, an early stage spin-out from MIT and MGH that provides superior technologies for revolutionizing the treatment of locally advanced inoperable solid tumors. Prior to this she served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the MGH Cancer Center and as a research associate in the Harvard-MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. She was selected as a TED Fellow in 2016.
Indolfi has broad professional experiences and interests ranging from biomedical engineering to entrepreneurship and outreaching initiative to promoting science. Her scientific expertise covers a broad range of therapeutic areas (cardio, cancer, inflammation, regenerative medicine) and approaches (drug delivery, cell therapy, implanted devices). Together with her strong technical background, Laura has hands-on business and managerial know-how developed during her biomedical business training at Sloan and Harvard Business Schools and with several consulting firms. She strongly believes in the power of outreach initiatives to promote research awareness and foster the public audience's discovery of the beauty of science. In 2014 the line of clothes Cytocouture, created in collaboration with Colombian designer Carlos Villamil and inspired by her cell-therapy research, won the global competition Descience.
Indolfi holds a MS/BS degree in materials science and engineering and a PhD in biomaterials from the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Upon graduation, she joined the Harvard-MIT Division of health, science and technology, working on several projects spanning from devices for local drug delivery to tissue engineering approaches for cell therapies.
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