Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
Laura Indolfi: Buone nuove sulla battaglia contro il cancro al pancreas
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?
almeno una persona sullo schermo?
in their fields.
nei loro campi.
all of them have in common?
tutti in comune?
very sad this news,
è una notizia tristissima,
alle loro storie personali
of how lethal this disease can be.
questa malattia possa essere letale.
of cancer deaths,
will survive beyond five years.
sopravvive oltre cinque anni.
with breast cancer,
al cancro al seno,
is almost 90 percent.
è quasi del 90%.
with pancreatic cancer
di cancro al pancreas
certain death sentence.
a morte pressoché certa.
is that in the last 40 years,
è che negli ultimi 40 anni,
minimamente cambiate
molti più progressi
treatment more effective?
più efficaci le terapie?
that seem impossible,
che sembrano impossibili,
innovative solutions
nuove, innovative,
le conseguenze.
with pancreatic cancer
del cancro pancreatico
of your belly, literally.
al centro della pancia, letteralmente.
in arancio sullo schermo.
organs in front.
organi da davanti.
by many other vital organs,
da molti altri organi vitali:
the bile duct.
il dotto biliare.
to grow into those organs
all'interno di questi organi
also prevents the doctor
da raggiungere impedisce ai medici
for breast cancer, for example.
nel cancro al seno, per esempio.
chemotherapy as the only option
che i pazienti con tumore pancreatico
la chemioterapia.
alla seconda brutta notizia.
piece of bad news.
very few blood vessels.
hanno pochi vasi sanguigni.
about the blood vessel of a tumor?
ai vasi sanguigni di un tumore?
how chemotherapy works.
a come funziona la chemioterapia.
until it reaches the tumor site.
finché non raggiunge il tumore.
trying to reach a destination.
tentando di arrivare a destinazione.
doesn't have an exit on the highway?
non ha l'uscita in autostrada?
con il cancro pancreatico.
throughout all of your body.
in tutto il corpo.
for the patients overall,
altamente tossici per i pazienti
raggiunge il tumore.
un trattamento a tutto il corpo
to have a whole-body treatment
and effort have gone towards
hanno portato alla scoperta
to treat pancreatic cancer,
per trattare il cancro pancreatico
in changing the way
per cambiare il modo
good news, hopefully.
si spera.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
General Hospital in Boston,
General Hospital di Boston,
the way we treat cancer
il modo di trattare il cancro
drug delivery a reality.
localizzata del farmaco una realtà.
on top of your destination,
esattamente a destinazione,
all around the highway.
il giro dell'autostrada.
into devices that look like this one.
in dispositivi come questo.
that they can be folded
da poter essere piegati
directly on top of the tumor
impiantarlo direttamente sul tumore
minimamente invasiva.
that once they are positioned
che una volta posizionati
physically prevent the tumor
al tumore,
sono biodegradabili.
una volta nel corpo,
slowly and more effectively
lentamente e con più efficacia
whole-body treatment.
con il trattamento attuale.
we have demonstrated
abbiamo dimostrato
the response to treatment.
la risposta al trattamento.
where it's needed the most,
dove ce n'è maggiore necessità,
12 volte più potente,
that is 12 times more powerful,
this technology to the next level.
questa tecnologia al livello successivo.
prior to asking the FDA for approval
chiedere l'autorizzazione della FDA
è destinata a morire.
will die from pancreatic cancer.
extend their life
allungar loro la vita
una malattia
di somministrarla,
più potente e meno tossica,
more powerful and less toxic,
alla scoperta di soluzioni nuove
to finding new innovative solutions
problemi irrisolvibili
e non solo.
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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