Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
Laura Indolfi: Bonnes nouvelles dans la lutte contre le cancer du pancréas
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?
une des personnes à l'écran ?
in their fields.
dans leurs domaines.
all of them have in common?
en commun ?
very sad this news,
très triste,
of how lethal this disease can be.
point cette maladie peut être mortelle.
of cancer deaths,
mortalité par cancer,
will survive beyond five years.
survivent plus de cinq ans.
with breast cancer,
celui du cancer du sein,
is almost 90 percent.
presque de 90 %.
with pancreatic cancer
certain death sentence.
à mort quasi certaine.
is that in the last 40 years,
c'est que pendant ces 40 dernières années,
de progrès ont été faits
treatment more effective?
du cancer du pancréas plus efficace ?
that seem impossible,
qui semblent impossibles,
innovative solutions
nouvelles et innovantes
with pancreatic cancer
avec le cancer du pancréas
of your belly, literally.
votre ventre, littéralement,
organs in front.
devant lui.
by many other vital organs,
par beaucoup d'autres organes vitaux,
the bile duct.
le canal biliaire.
to grow into those organs
à s'étendre à ces organes
le cancer du pancréas
types de tumeur.
also prevents the doctor
empêche aussi le médecin
for breast cancer, for example.
pour le cancer du sein, par exemple.
chemotherapy as the only option
chimiothérapie la seule option pour
du cancer du pancréas.
piece of bad news.
deuxième mauvaise nouvelle.
very few blood vessels.
ont très peu de vaisseaux sanguins.
about the blood vessel of a tumor?
des vaisseaux sanguins de la tumeur?
how chemotherapy works.
la chimiothérapie fonctionne.
injecté dans la veine
until it reaches the tumor site.
ce qu'il atteigne le site de la tumeur.
trying to reach a destination.
en essayant d'atteindre une destination.
doesn't have an exit on the highway?
n'a pas de sortie sur l'autoroute ?
et le cancer du pancréas.
throughout all of your body.
votre corps entier.
for the patients overall,
générale des patients,
l'efficacité est très limitée.
to have a whole-body treatment
d'utiliser un traitement global
and effort have gone towards
d'efforts ont été investis pour
to treat pancreatic cancer,
afin de traiter le cancer du pancréas,
in changing the way
pour changer la façon
good news, hopefully.
heureusement.
General Hospital in Boston,
General Hospital à Boston,
the way we treat cancer
la façon de traiter le cancer
drug delivery a reality.
de médicament une réalité.
on top of your destination,
sur votre destination,
all around the highway.
sur toute l'autoroute.
into devices that look like this one.
dans des dispositifs comme celui-ci.
that they can be folded
pour être glissés
directly on top of the tumor
directement sur la tumeur
that once they are positioned
pour qu'une fois positonnés
physically prevent the tumor
la tumeur
slowly and more effectively
lentement et plus efficacement
whole-body treatment.
traitement global actuel.
we have demonstrated
nous avons démontré
the response to treatment.
la réponse au traitement.
médicament déjà connu
where it's needed the most,
à l'endroit où on en a le plus besoin,
that is 12 times more powerful,
qui est 12 fois plus puissante,
this technology to the next level.
cette technologie au niveau supérieur.
les tests pré-cliniques
prior to asking the FDA for approval
de demander l'approbation de la FDA
will die from pancreatic cancer.
meurent du cancer du pancréas.
extend their life
rallonger leur vie
injectons le médicament,
more powerful and less toxic,
puissant et moins toxique,
to finding new innovative solutions
trouver de nouvelles solutions innovantes
insolvables
pancréas et même au-delà.
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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