Geraldine Hamilton: Body parts on a chip
Geraldine Hamilton: Organi umani su un chip
Geraldine Hamilton builds organs and body parts on a chip -- to test new, custom cures. Full bio
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per la salute globale
di nuove terapie
in ricerca e sviluppo,
Hmm.
throw them in one of these dishes,
le buttiamo in uno di questi piatti,
what will happen in humans
che cosa succederà negli esseri umani
all'interno del nostro corpo.
But it's pretty incredible.
Ma è proprio incredibile.
cellule in laboratorio.
little mini-organs in the lab.
in laboratorio piccoli mini-organi.
che per il loro ambiente.
inflammation due to infection,
causata dall'infezione,
so you can see them flowing through,
in modo che possiate vederli scorrere,
una risposta immunitaria.
amount of information
insieme di informazioni
Che schifo.
and they can't clear that mucus out.
e non possono disfarsi del muco.
come la fibrosi cistica.
that we get in these chips,
in questi chip
molte cure efficaci per essa.
un essere umano virtuale su un chip.
a whole human in these chips,
su questi chip,
a drug like an aerosol drug.
tipo un medicinale per aerosol.
when you take your inhaler,
quando usate il vostro inalatore,
la pelle su un chip
safe to put on your skin
sono davvero sicuri per la pelle
è questo: medio.
tende ad essere donna.
from all those different populations,
da tutte queste popolazioni differenti,
that are doing this.
che stanno facendo questo.
digital manufacturing.
proprio ora in laboratorio
possa arrivare,
had a really bad headache,
avevo un terribile mal di testa,
"Well, I'll try something different."
"Bene, adesso provo qualcosa di diverso"
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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