Adam de la Zerda: We can start winning the war against cancer
Adam de la Zerda: Putem începe să câștigăm lupta împotriva cancerului
Adam de la Zerda develops new medical imaging technologies to detect and destroy cancer. Full bio
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până în 2015.”
and the National Cancer Institute declared
și Institutul Național de Cancer
but I don't buy that.
dar eu nu cred asta.
nu am câștigat acest război,
anyone here will question that.
pune asta la îndoială.
că un motiv principal
this war against cancer
acest război
a story about a good friend of mine.
o poveste despre un bun prieten.
Ehud was diagnosed with brain cancer.
a fost diagnosticat cu cancer la creier.
of the most deadly forms of brain cancer.
forme de cancer la creier.
that they only have 12 months,
că mai are doar 12 luni,
they have to find a treatment.
ei trebuie să găsească un tratament.
find a cure, he will die.
un leac, el va muri.
of different treatments to choose from,
de tratamente,
if a treatment is even working or not,
un tratament este eficient sau nu,
about three months or so.
into his first treatment,
la primul său tratament,
just a few days into that treatment,
doar din primele zile,
„Adam, cred că tratamentul dă rezultate.
"Adam, I think this is working.
Something is happening."
Ceva se întâmplă.”
How do you know that, Ehud?"
„Cum ți-ai dat seama de asta, Ehud?”
I feel so terrible inside.
pe dinăuntru.
we got the news, it didn't work.
am primit vești, nu a mers.
into his second treatment.
spre al doilea tratament.
gotta be working there."
trebuie să meargă acolo.”
again we get bad news.
din nou avem vești rele.
and then his fourth treatment.
și apoi la al patrulea.
is going through such a huge struggle,
trece printr-o luptă atât de grea,
are going through your head.
se întâmplă în capul tău.
this is the best that we can offer?
fi asta cel mai bun din ce avem de oferit?
more and more into this.
mai mult despre asta.
the best that doctors could offer Ehud.
ce-i mai bun de la medici.
patients with brain cancer generally.
oferi pacienților cu cancer în general.
all across the board with cancer.
cu niciun fel de cancer.
have seen those statistics before.
au văzut acele statistici înainte.
how many patients actually died of cancer,
au murit de cancer,
that many things that have changed.
atât de multe lucruri care s-au schimbat.
for example, on the rise.
de exemplu, în creștere.
for example, stomach cancer
cancerul la stomac
of the biggest killers of all cancers,
ucigătoare dintre toate cancerele,
Anyone knows, by the way?
Știe cineva, apropo?
struck by stomach cancer?
de cancerul la stomac?
medical technology breakthrough
medicală tehnologică uriașă
that saved humanity from stomach cancer?
umanitatea de cancerul la stomac?
or a better diagnostic?
sau un diagnostic mai bun?
no longer eating spoiled meats.
cărnuri stricate.
care ni s-a întâmplat
that happened to us so far
the refrigerator was invented.
in cancer research.
în cercetarea cancerului.
of good cancer research
de cercetări bune asupra cancerului
that taught us about cancer.
care ne-au învățat despre cancer.
to still do ahead of us.
multe lucruri complicate.
reason why this is the case,
că motivul principal
remarcabil de bine,
ne luptăm orbește aici.
medical imaging comes in.
of the best medical imaging
despre vizualizarea medicală
to brain cancer patients,
pacienților cu cancer la creier.
to all cancer patients,
bolnavi de orice cancer,
cu emisie de pozitroni (PET).
această scanare PET/CT
where the bones are,
unde sunt oasele dumneavoastră,
where tumors are.
vă arătă unde sunt tumorile.
outside of the body,
into these patients by the billions,
sunt injectate în pacienți cu miliardele,
that are hungry for sugar.
care sunt flămânde după zahăr.
for example, lights up there.
de exemplu, se aprinde aici.
needs a lot of sugar.
inima are nevoie de mult zahăr.
lights up there.
vezica urinară se aprinde acolo.
is the thing that's clearing
este lucrul care elimină
alte câteva regiuni,
a wonderful technology.
o tehnologie minunată.
to look into someone's body
să căutăm în corpul cuiva
each and every one of the cells
allowing us to look into someone's body
permițându-ne să căutăm în corp
„Hei, s-a metastazat cancerul?
has the cancer metastasized?
are showing you very clearly
where is the tumor.
unde este tumoarea.
small little hot spots there.
are in any one of these tumors?
sunt în una dintre aceste tumori?
de celule canceroase,
that this number sunk in.
că ați auzit bine.
of these small little blips
at least 100 million cancer cells
de celule canceroase
like a very large number,
un număr foarte mare,
an incredibly large number,
in order to pick up something early enough
suficient de devreme
to do something meaningful about it,
ceva semnificativ cu asta,
that are a thousand cells in size,
care sunt în mărime de 1000 de celule,
a handful of cells in size.
pretty far away from this.
foarte departe de asta.
a little experiment here.
un mic experiment aici.
to now play and imagine
that the tumor is out.
că tumoarea este eliminată.
have already been removed,
au fost deja îndepărtate,
about the size of a golf ball or so
aproximativă unei mingi de golf
of this person's brain.
al creierului.
everything looks the same,
și, din păcate, totul arată la fel,
and healthy brain tissue
țesutul sănătos
a little bit on the brain,
puțin pe creier,
a little harder, stiffer,
puțin mai dure,
a little bit like this and say,
and start cutting the tumor
și începeți să tăiați tumoarea
to a stage where you think,
I took out everything."
Am scos totul.”
like, pretty crazy --
destul de nebunesc,
challenging decision of your life here.
cea mai provocatoare decizie din viață.
and let this patient go,
și să las acest pacient să plece,
some leftover cancer cells behind
niște celule canceroase
nu am putut să le văd,
around the tumor
că am îndepărtat totul?
have to take every single day
trebuie să o ia în fiecare zi,
to a few friends of mine in the lab,
vorbind câtorva prieteni în laborator,
there's got to be a better way."
o cale mai bună.”
that there's got to be a better way.
că trebuie să fie o cale mai bună.
trebuie să existe o cale mai bună.
the sugar and so on.
de care v-am zis, cu zahărul.
instead of using sugar molecules,
în loc de molecule de zahăr,
little particles made of gold,
interesting chemistry around them.
to look for cancer cells.
să caute celule canceroase.
these gold particles
every single cell in our body
prin fiecare celulă din corp
or are you a healthy cell?
canceroasă sau sănătoasă?”
mergem mai departe.
we're sticking in and shining out
noi rămânem și strălucim
"Hey, look at me, I'm here."
„Hei, uită-te la noi, suntem aici.”
through some interesting cameras
prin niște camere interesante
maybe we can guide brain cancer surgeons
putem ghida neurochirurgii oncologi
and leaving the healthy brain alone.
și să lase creierul sănătos în pace.
and boy, this works well.
și chiar merge bine.
into this mouse's brain
growing in this mouse's brain,
crește acum în creierul șoarecelui,
and asked the doctor
as if that was a patient,
out of the tumor.
bucățică cu bucățică afară tumoarea.
to see where the gold particles are.
unde sunt particulele de aur.
into this mouse,
particulele de aur în acest șoarece,
right here at the very left there
și la stânga acolo,
where the gold particles are.
unde sunt particulele de aur.
is that these gold particles
aceste particule de aur
"Hey, we're here. Here's the tumor."
„Hei, suntem aici. Aici e tumoarea.”
to the doctor yet.
now please start cutting away the tumor,
să îndepărteze acum tumoarea,
just took the first quadrant of the tumor
a luat doar primul sfert din tumoare
is now missing.
the second quadrant, the third,
al doilea sfert, al treilea,
doctorul s-a întors la noi zicând:
the doctor came back to us and said,
What do you want me to do?
Ce vreți să fac?
some extra margins around?"
„Stați așa.”
"You've missed those two spots,
„Ați ratat acele 2 locuri,
margini uriașe împrejur,
and then let's take a look."
și apoi să aruncăm o privire.”
and lo and behold,
that the cancer is completely gone
a dispărut complet
huge amounts of healthy brain
porțiuni uriașe de creier sănătos
as they take away a tumor,
îndepărtând tumoarea,
have to guess with their thumb.
să ghicească cu degetul mare.
to take those tiny little leftover tumors.
să fie luate resturile mici de tumori:
even if it's just a handful of cells,
chiar dacă sunt o mână de celule,
ultimately fail
extra margins that were left positive,
care au fost lăsate,
that were left there.
care au fost lăsate acolo.
is where I think we're heading from here.
este unde cred că ne îndreptăm.
what should we be working on now?
la ce ar trebui să lucrăm acum?
medical imaging is heading to
imagistica medicală
of these cells separately.
way, way earlier in the process,
foarte de timpuriu în proces,
so we can actually do something about it.
ca să putem face ceva cu asta.
of the cells might also allow us
ne-ar permite, de asemenea,
noi ajungem într-un punct
we are now getting to a point
these cancer cells real questions,
întrebări reale celulelor,
to the treatment we are giving you or not?
la tratamentul pe care vi-l dăm sau nu?
to stop the treatment right away,
să stopăm tratamentul imediat,
nu după 3 luni.
nasty, nasty chemotherapy drugs,
de chimioterapie urâte,
side effects of the drugs
ale medicamentelor
in fact not even helping them.
from winning the war against cancer,
războiul împotriva cancerului,
with better medical imaging techniques
cu tehnici de imagistică mai bune
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam de la Zerda - Biologist, electrical engineerAdam de la Zerda develops new medical imaging technologies to detect and destroy cancer.
Why you should listen
Adam de la Zerda is an assistant professor at the Departments of Structural Biology and Electrical Engineering (courtesy) at Stanford University – School of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate degree in computer engineering and physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2005 Summa Cum Laude. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2011, where he developed the Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging technique with Sanjiv Sam Gambhir. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the lab of Carolyn Bertozzi at UC Berkeley – Chemistry Department, before joining the Stanford faculty in 2012.
de la Zerda's research interests span the broad field of molecular imaging. His lab focuses on developing new optical imaging instrumentation and chemistry tools to study the complex spatiotemporal behavior of biomolecules in living subjects. The lab uses animal models for cancer and ophthalmic diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. His research efforts span both basic science and clinically translatable work.
de la Zerda has received many awards and honors for his work, including the Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Baxter Faculty Scholar Award, Dale F. Frey Award, Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 in Science and Healthcare for 2012 and 2014, NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Era of Hope Distinguished Predoctoral Poster Award, Best Poster Presentation at SPIE Photonics West, the Young Investigator Award at the World Molecular Imaging Congress, the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Award for Predoctoral researchers, the Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship and first place at the Bay Area Entrepreneurship Contest. He has published papers in leading journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Nanotechnology and PNAS. He holds a number of patents and is the founder of a medical device company, Click Diagnostics.
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