Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
لورا ایندالفی: خبرهای خوش از جنگ با سرطان لوزالمعده
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?
چهرههای روی نمایشگر را میشناسید؟
in their fields.
خیلی مشهور هستند.
all of them have in common?
very sad this news,
of how lethal this disease can be.
این بیماری بالا رفته است.
of cancer deaths,
به خاطر سرطان است،
will survive beyond five years.
از بیماران مبتلا نجات مییابند.
with breast cancer,
is almost 90 percent.
with pancreatic cancer
certain death sentence.
is that in the last 40 years,
treatment more effective?
سرطان لوزالمعده را افزایش دهیم؟
that seem impossible,
که به نظر غیر ممکن میآیند،
innovative solutions
تلاش کنم.
with pancreatic cancer
of your belly, literally.
وسط شکمتان قرار گرفته است.
organs in front.
by many other vital organs,
حیاتی دیگر احاطه شده است،
the bile duct.
to grow into those organs
also prevents the doctor
مانع از آن میشود که پزشک بتواند
for breast cancer, for example.
سرطان پستان انجام میشود.
chemotherapy as the only option
بیمار مبتلا به سرطان لوزالمعده باشد.
piece of bad news.
very few blood vessels.
عروق خونی خیلی کمی دارند.
یک تومور اهمیت بدهیم؟
about the blood vessel of a tumor?
how chemotherapy works.
عملکرد شیمی درمانی فکر کنیم.
until it reaches the tumor site.
به محدوده تومور برسد.
trying to reach a destination.
در یک بزرگراه رانندگی کنید.
doesn't have an exit on the highway?
برای مقصد شما خروجی نداشته باشد؟
وجود دارد.
throughout all of your body.
for the patients overall,
مسموم کننده شدیدی بر بیمار میگذارند،
به تومور میرسند.
to have a whole-body treatment
که کل بدن را برای
مورد درمان قرار دهیم.
and effort have gone towards
to treat pancreatic cancer,
درمان سرطان لوزالمعده انجام شده است،
in changing the way
good news, hopefully.
General Hospital in Boston,
the way we treat cancer
drug delivery a reality.
دگرگون کردهایم.
on top of your destination,
بالای سر مقصد رها میکنیم،
all around the highway.
رانندگی کنید جلوگیری میکنیم.
into devices that look like this one.
مانند این جاسازی میکنیم.
that they can be folded
که میتوان آنها را تا کرد
directly on top of the tumor
دقیقا روی تومور قرار دهد
that once they are positioned
تا وقتی که در جای خود
physically prevent the tumor
جلوگیری میکنند،
زیست تجزیهپذیر هستند.
slowly and more effectively
به آهستگی و موثرتر از آنچه
whole-body treatment.
به نقطه مورد نظر میرسانند.
we have demonstrated
the response to treatment.
تا ۱۲ برابر افزایش دهد.
where it's needed the most,
بیشتر به آن نیاز است میرسانیم،
that is 12 times more powerful,
که ۱۲ برابر قویتر است،
this technology to the next level.
به صورت خستگی ناپذیر کار میکنیم.
آزمایشهای پیش بالینی هستیم
prior to asking the FDA for approval
آزمایشهای بالینی از سازمان غذا و دارو
will die from pancreatic cancer.
سرطان لوزالمعده میمیرند.
extend their life
زندگی آنها را طولانیتر کنیم
more powerful and less toxic,
سمی بودن آن را کاهش میدهیم،
to finding new innovative solutions
راه حلهای جدید و خلاقانه میشویم
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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