Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
Laura Indolfi: Goed nieuws in de strijd tegen alvleesklierkanker
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?
in their fields.
erg beroemd in hun vakgebied.
met elkaar gemeen hebben?
all of them have in common?
very sad this news,
hun persoonlijke verhalen
of how lethal this disease can be.
of cancer deaths,
als oorzaak van kankersterfgevallen.
will survive beyond five years.
is na 5 jaar nog in leven.
with breast cancer,
is almost 90 percent.
vrijwel 90% zijn.
with pancreatic cancer
certain death sentence.
is that in the last 40 years,
dat in de afgelopen 40 jaar
treatment more effective?
moeilijk oplosbare problemen
that seem impossible,
innovative solutions
with pancreatic cancer
over alvleesklierkanker
of your belly, literally.
midden in jouw buik bevindt.
op deze afbeelding.
organs in front.
verwijder die ervoor zitten.
by many other vital organs,
the bile duct.
to grow into those organs
also prevents the doctor
hem chirurgisch te verwijderen
wordt gedaan bij borstkanker.
for breast cancer, for example.
chemotherapy as the only option
piece of bad news.
het tweede slechte nieuws.
very few blood vessels.
about the blood vessel of a tumor?
van een tumor belangrijk?
how chemotherapy works.
until it reaches the tumor site.
trying to reach a destination.
doesn't have an exit on the highway?
zich dwars door je lichaam.
throughout all of your body.
for the patients overall,
gaat naar de tumor.
to have a whole-body treatment
and effort have gone towards
onderzoek en moeite gestoken
to treat pancreatic cancer,
in changing the way
die toedienen aan de patïent.
good news, hopefully.
General Hospital in Boston,
General Hospital in Boston
waarop we kanker genezen
the way we treat cancer
door lokale geneesmiddeltoediening
drug delivery a reality.
on top of your destination,
all around the highway.
de hele snelweg hoeft te rijden.
into devices that look like this one.
in hulpmiddelen verwerkt
that they can be folded
passen in een katheter,
minimaal invasieve chirurgie
directly on top of the tumor
that once they are positioned
de tumor geplaatst worden.
physically prevent the tumor
biologisch afbreekbaar.
slowly and more effectively
en effectieve manier toe
whole-body treatment.
de huidige lichaamsbehandeling.
we have demonstrated
hebben we aangetoond
the response to treatment.
behandelingsresultaten oplevert.
een bekend medicijn gekozen
where it's needed the most,
waar 't het hardst nodig is.
that is 12 times more powerful,
12 keer krachtigere reactie
het algehele toxische effect.
this technology to the next level.
prior to asking the FDA for approval
[Amerikaanse overheidsagentschap]
voor klinische proeven.
will die from pancreatic cancer.
van de patiënten
extend their life
hun levens verlengen
over de toediening van het medicijn
more powerful and less toxic,
krachtiger en minder toxisch.
naar innovatieve oplossingen
to finding new innovative solutions
specimen en daarbuiten.
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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