Geraldine Hamilton: Body parts on a chip
Geraldine Hamilton: Organos corporales en un chip
Geraldine Hamilton builds organs and body parts on a chip -- to test new, custom cures. Full bio
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gastan en investigación y desarrollo,
throw them in one of these dishes,
Las arrojamos en uno de estas cajas
what will happen in humans
lo que puede suceder en humanos
manera de mantenerlas felices
mecánicas permanentemente.
But it's pretty incredible.
Pero es realmente increíble.
little mini-organs in the lab.
pequeños mini-órganos en el laboratorio.
inflammation due to infection,
producida por la infección,
so you can see them flowing through,
para que puedan ver cómo se mueven
la respuesta inmunológica.
amount of information
cantidad de información
hacen dentro de los chips.
and they can't clear that mucus out.
enfermedades como la fibrosis quística.
that we get in these chips,
logrado con estos chips,
a whole human in these chips,
cuerpo humano en estos chips,
a drug like an aerosol drug.
una medicina en aerosol.
when you take your inhaler,
tienen que usar inhaladores.
ese medicamento en los pulmones,
en el laboratorio, ahora,
safe to put on your skin
son suficientemente seguros para la piel
a los que nos exponemos
detergentes comunes para el hogar.
SARS (síndrome respiratorio agudo severo),
a los niños todo el tiempo,
llevar a reacciones adversas.
from all those different populations,
esos diferentes grupos poblacionales,
that are doing this.
que están haciendo todo esto.
nuestra manera de diseñar,
colaboraciones con industrias,
digital manufacturing.
ante ciertas medicinas.
had a really bad headache,
tuve un dolor cabeza muy fuerte,
"Well, I'll try something different."
"Bien, probaré algo diferente".
medicamentos, pueden ser fatales.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Geraldine Hamilton - Bio researcherGeraldine Hamilton builds organs and body parts on a chip -- to test new, custom cures.
Why you should listen
Geraldine Hamilton’s career spans from academic research to biotech start-ups to pharma. Her research focus has been on the development and application of human-relevant in-vitro models for drug discovery. She was one of the founding scientists, VP of Scientific Operations and Director of Cell Products, in a start-up biotech company (CellzDirect), that successfully translated and commercialized technology from academic research to supply the pharmaceutical industry with hepatic cell products and services for safety assessment and drug-metabolism studies.
Hamilton received her Ph.D. in cell biology/toxicology from the University of Hertfordshire (England) in conjunction with GlaxoSmithkline, followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of North Carolina. Her current research interests and prior experience include: organs on-a-chip, toxicology and drug metabolism, liver cell biology, mechanisms regulating gene expression and differentiation, regulation of nuclear receptors and transcriptional activation in hepatocytes by xenobiotics, human cell isolation and cryopreservation techniques.
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