Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
Laura Indolfi: Boas notícias para a luta contra o câncer pancreático
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?
pelo menos uma das pessoas na tela?
muito famosos em suas profissões.
in their fields.
all of them have in common?
very sad this news,
às histórias dessas pessoas
pública sobre a letalidade dessa doença.
of how lethal this disease can be.
of cancer deaths,
que mais causa mortes,
sobrevive por mais de 5 anos.
will survive beyond five years.
ao câncer de mama,
with breast cancer,
is almost 90 percent.
de câncer pancreático
with pancreatic cancer
sentença de morte quase certa.
certain death sentence.
é que, nos últimos 40 anos,
is that in the last 40 years,
com outros tipos de tumor.
treatment more effective?
o tratamento do câncer pancreático?
com problemas que pareçam impossíveis,
that seem impossible,
innovative solutions
soluções novas, inovadoras
with pancreatic cancer
sobre o câncer pancreático
literalmente, no meio da sua barriga.
of your belly, literally.
organs in front.
órgãos que estão na frente.
por outros órgãos vitais,
by many other vital organs,
e ducto biliar.
the bile duct.
de invadir esses outros órgãos
to grow into those organs
é um dos tumores mais dolorosos.
also prevents the doctor
também evita que médicos
for breast cancer, for example.
de câncer de mama, por exemplo.
chemotherapy as the only option
a quimioterapia a única opção
piece of bad news.
very few blood vessels.
têm poucos vasos sanguíneos.
about the blood vessel of a tumor?
de um tumor são importantes?
how chemotherapy works.
como a quimioterapia funciona.
until it reaches the tumor site.
até chegar ao local do tumor.
para chegar a um lugar.
trying to reach a destination.
doesn't have an exit on the highway?
não tem saída da via expressa?
para o câncer pancreático.
throughout all of your body.
todo o corpo do paciente.
for the patients overall,
para os pacientes em geral,
to have a whole-body treatment
and effort have gone towards
e trabalho foram investidos
to treat pancreatic cancer,
para tratar o câncer pancreático,
in changing the way
ser uma boa notícia.
good news, hopefully.
General Hospital in Boston,
de Massachusetts, Boston,
the way we treat cancer
a administração localizada de drogas.
drug delivery a reality.
de paraquedas ao seu destino,
on top of your destination,
all around the highway.
pela via expressa inteira.
into devices that look like this one.
em dispositivos como este aqui.
that they can be folded
para podermos dobrá-los,
directly on top of the tumor
diretamente no tumor,
that once they are positioned
para que, quando em posição,
funcionem como uma gaiola.
physically prevent the tumor
controlando a metástase.
liberando a droga somente no local,
slowly and more effectively
feito com o tratamento sistêmico atual.
whole-body treatment.
we have demonstrated
que essa abordagem localizada
ao tratamento 12 vezes melhor.
the response to treatment.
where it's needed the most,
localmente, onde é mais necessária,
that is 12 times more powerful,
12 vezes mais poderosa,
de toxicidade sistêmica.
this technology to the next level.
para aprimorar esta tecnologia ainda mais.
antes do pedido de aprovação da FDA
prior to asking the FDA for approval
will die from pancreatic cancer.
morrerá de câncer pancreático.
aumentar a sobrevida
extend their life
tornar o câncer pancreático
de administrar a droga,
mais forte e menos tóxica,
more powerful and less toxic,
to finding new innovative solutions
à busca de soluções mais inovadoras
problemas impossíveis
com câncer pancreático e além.
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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