Adam de la Zerda: We can start winning the war against cancer
Адам де ла Зерда: Как начать побеждать в войне против рака
Adam de la Zerda develops new medical imaging technologies to detect and destroy cancer. Full bio
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and the National Cancer Institute declared
и Национальный институт онкологии
but I don't buy that.
в этой войне,
anyone here will question that.
поспорит со мной.
this war against cancer
в войне против рака —
своего близкого друга.
a story about a good friend of mine.
Ehud was diagnosed with brain cancer.
выявили рак головного мозга,
of the most deadly forms of brain cancer.
that they only have 12 months,
найти способ ему помочь.
they have to find a treatment.
find a cure, he will die.
of different treatments to choose from,
это хорошая новость,
if a treatment is even working or not,
эффективно лекарство или нет,
about three months or so.
into his first treatment,
just a few days into that treatment,
«Адам, кажется, лекарство помогает.
"Adam, I think this is working.
Что-то происходит».
Something is happening."
Откуда ты знаешь?»
How do you know that, Ehud?"
I feel so terrible inside.
we got the news, it didn't work.
нам сообщили, что нет, не подействовало.
into his second treatment.
это действие лекарства».
gotta be working there."
again we get bad news.
а затем четвёртый курс.
and then his fourth treatment.
Эйхуд умирает.
is going through such a huge struggle,
через такие тяжкие испытания,
are going through your head.
this is the best that we can offer?
что можно было сделать?
more and more into this.
что врачи смогли сделать для Эйхуда.
the best that doctors could offer Ehud.
для любого больного раком головного мозга.
patients with brain cancer generally.
не самые хорошие показатели.
all across the board with cancer.
have seen those statistics before.
уже знакомы с этими данными.
how many patients actually died of cancer,
не многое изменилось с тех пор.
that many things that have changed.
for example, on the rise.
от рака лёгких.
for example, stomach cancer
из самых смертельных видов рака,
of the biggest killers of all cancers,
Anyone knows, by the way?
Может, кто-нибудь знает ответ?
от рака желудка в таком масштабе?
struck by stomach cancer?
в области медицинских технологий,
medical technology breakthrough
that saved humanity from stomach cancer?
спасло человечество от рака желудка?
or a better diagnostic?
возможно, улучшенная диагностика?
no longer eating spoiled meats.
that happened to us so far
the refrigerator was invented.
in cancer research.
в сфере онкоисследований.
of good cancer research
изучения рака
that taught us about cancer.
ещё много тяжёлой работы.
to still do ahead of us.
reason why this is the case,
такого положения вещей,
медицинская визуализация,
medical imaging comes in.
of the best medical imaging
медицинской визуализацией,
to brain cancer patients,
для больных раком головного мозга,
to all cancer patients,
where the bones are,
where tumors are.
outside of the body,
миллиарды таких молекул,
into these patients by the billions,
that are hungry for sugar.
for example, lights up there.
большое количество сахара.
needs a lot of sugar.
lights up there.
is the thing that's clearing
a wonderful technology.
заглянуть внутрь организма
to look into someone's body
each and every one of the cells
без применения инвазивных методов
allowing us to look into someone's body
has the cancer metastasized?
are showing you very clearly
where is the tumor.
small little hot spots there.
крохотные яркие точки?
are in any one of these tumors?
раковых клеток в какой-либо из них!
that this number sunk in.
какое огромное количество!
of these small little blips
100 миллионов раковых клеток,
at least 100 million cancer cells
like a very large number,
an incredibly large number,
in order to pick up something early enough
что-то значимое,
to do something meaningful about it,
размером в тысячу клеток,
that are a thousand cells in size,
a handful of cells in size.
pretty far away from this.
a little experiment here.
to now play and imagine
that the tumor is out.
have already been removed,
размером с шар для гольфа
about the size of a golf ball or so
of this person's brain.
everything looks the same,
не можете ничего различить,
и поражённые ткани головного мозга
and healthy brain tissue
a little bit on the brain,
чуть более твёрдая, упругая.
a little harder, stiffer,
a little bit like this and say,
вы начинаете её вырезать
and start cutting the tumor
когда думаете:
to a stage where you think,
I took out everything."
like, pretty crazy --
challenging decision of your life here.
из самых трудных решений в жизни.
and let this patient go,
some leftover cancer cells behind
прилегающие к опухоли ткани,
с половиной сантиметров,
around the tumor
have to take every single day
to a few friends of mine in the lab,
в лаборатории, мы сказали:
there's got to be a better way."
более эффективный способ!»
that there's got to be a better way.
этот более эффективный способ.
о ПЭТ-диагностике и сахаре?
the sugar and so on.
молекул сахара использовать
instead of using sugar molecules,
little particles made of gold,
посредством какой-нибудь интересной химии,
interesting chemistry around them.
на поиск раковых клеток.
to look for cancer cells.
these gold particles
every single cell in our body
or are you a healthy cell?
и освещаем тебя,
we're sticking in and shining out
"Hey, look at me, I'm here."
through some interesting cameras
помогут нейрохирургам
maybe we can guide brain cancer surgeons
а здоровые ткани оставлять нетронутыми.
and leaving the healthy brain alone.
and boy, this works well.
что это отлично работает на практике.
into this mouse's brain
growing in this mouse's brain,
and asked the doctor
as if that was a patient,
out of the tumor.
to see where the gold particles are.
где находятся золотые частицы.
into this mouse,
right here at the very left there
where the gold particles are.
is that these gold particles
"Hey, we're here. Here's the tumor."
«Cюда! Опухоль здесь!»
to the doctor yet.
now please start cutting away the tumor,
удалена первая четверть опухоли:
just took the first quadrant of the tumor
is now missing.
the second quadrant, the third,
the doctor came back to us and said,
What do you want me to do?
some extra margins around?"
"You've missed those two spots,
and then let's take a look."
and lo and behold,
that the cancer is completely gone
огромное количество здоровых тканей
huge amounts of healthy brain
as they take away a tumor,
have to guess with their thumb.
to take those tiny little leftover tumors.
извлечь крохотные остатки опухолей.
даже минимальное число клеток,
even if it's just a handful of cells,
ultimately fail
extra margins that were left positive,
поражённых краёв прилегающих тканей
that were left there.
is where I think we're heading from here.
о том, что оно значит для будущего.
«Над чем мы должны работать сейчас?»
what should we be working on now?
medical imaging is heading to
посредством медицинской визуализации
внутрь человеческого организма
отдельную из его клеток.
of these cells separately.
гораздо более ранних стадиях,
way, way earlier in the process,
so we can actually do something about it.
а не когда в них 100 миллионов клеток.
of the cells might also allow us
также позволит нам
we are now getting to a point
с решающими вопросами,
these cancer cells real questions,
на назначенное лечение или нет?
to the treatment we are giving you or not?
что лечение стоит прекратить немедленно,
to stop the treatment right away,
а не через три месяца.
nasty, nasty chemotherapy drugs,
побочными действиями,
side effects of the drugs
in fact not even helping them.
совершенно не помогают.
в войне против рака,
from winning the war against cancer,
with better medical imaging techniques
имея более совершенные методы диагностики,
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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