Adam de la Zerda: We can start winning the war against cancer
Adam de la Zerda: Môžeme začať vyhrávať vojnu proti rakovine
Adam de la Zerda develops new medical imaging technologies to detect and destroy cancer. Full bio
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and the National Cancer Institute declared
a Národný inštitút pre rakovinu
but I don't buy that.
anyone here will question that.
že hlavný dôvod,
this war against cancer
nevyhrávame,
a story about a good friend of mine.
príbeh môjho dobrého priateľa.
Ehud was diagnosed with brain cancer.
rakovinu mozgu.
of the most deadly forms of brain cancer.
z najsmrteľnejších foriem rakoviny mozgu.
that they only have 12 months,
že mu ostáva len 12 mesiacov
they have to find a treatment.
musia nájsť liečbu.
find a cure, he will die.
of different treatments to choose from,
if a treatment is even working or not,
či liečba funguje alebo nie,
about three months or so.
into his first treatment,
just a few days into that treatment,
len pár dní pred jej začiatkom,
"Adam, I think this is working.
„Adam, myslím že to bude fungovať.
Something is happening."
Niečo sa deje.“
How do you know that, Ehud?"
Ako to vieš, Ehud?“
I feel so terrible inside.
vo vnútri sa cítim úplne zle.
we got the news, it didn't work.
prišli správy, že to nezabralo.
into his second treatment.
gotta be working there."
že niečo tam musí pracovať.“
again we get bad news.
and then his fourth treatment.
a potom na štvrtú.
is going through such a huge struggle,
prechádza takýmto veľkým bojom,
are going through your head.
this is the best that we can offer?
toto je to najlepšie, čo môžeme ponúknuť?
more and more into this.
the best that doctors could offer Ehud.
čo lekári mohli ponúknuť Ehudovi.
patients with brain cancer generally.
pacientom s rakovinou mozgu všeobecne.
all across the board with cancer.
naprieč celou oblasťou rakoviny.
have seen those statistics before.
že niektorí z vás ich už videli.
how many patients actually died of cancer,
už vlastne zomrelo na rakovinu,
that many things that have changed.
až tak veľa nezmenilo.
for example, on the rise.
že pľúcna rakovina rastie.
for example, stomach cancer
že rakovina žalúdka,
of the biggest killers of all cancers,
zo všetkých rakovín,
Anyone knows, by the way?
Mimochodom, vie to niekto?
struck by stomach cancer?
rakovinou žalúdka?
medical technology breakthrough
technologický prelom,
that saved humanity from stomach cancer?
od rakoviny žalúdka?
or a better diagnostic?
alebo lepšia diagnostika?
no longer eating spoiled meats.
that happened to us so far
čo sa nám dosiaľ prihodila
the refrigerator was invented.
in cancer research.
vo výskume rakoviny.
of good cancer research
dobrého výskumu rakoviny,
that taught us about cancer.
a naučil nás veľa o rakovine.
to still do ahead of us.
reason why this is the case,
dôvodom prečo je to tak,
medical imaging comes in.
medicínske zobrazovanie.
of the best medical imaging
medicínskeho zobrazovania,
to brain cancer patients,
s rakovinou mozgu,
to all cancer patients,
pre pacientov s rakovinou,
where the bones are,
where tumors are.
outside of the body,
into these patients by the billions,
pacientom po miliardách,
that are hungry for sugar.
for example, lights up there.
needs a lot of sugar.
potrebuje veľa cukru.
lights up there.
is the thing that's clearing
tá vec, ktorá čistí
a wonderful technology.
to look into someone's body
pozrieť sa do nejakého tela
each and every one of the cells
allowing us to look into someone's body
nám umožňuje pozrieť sa do tela
has the cancer metastasized?
are showing you very clearly
where is the tumor.
nie je to až také dobré.
small little hot spots there.
are in any one of these tumors?
buniek je v jednom z týchto nádorov?
rakovinových buniek
that this number sunk in.
je ich je tam naozaj toľko.
of these small little blips
at least 100 million cancer cells
rakovinových buniek,
like a very large number,
ako veľmi veľké číslo,
neuveriteľne veľké číslo,
an incredibly large number,
in order to pick up something early enough
aby sme mohli niečo vybrať von včas,
to do something meaningful about it,
robiť s tým niečo zmysluplné,
that are a thousand cells in size,
vo veľkosti tisícov buniek,
a handful of cells in size.
pretty far away from this.
a little experiment here.
to now play and imagine
aby hral a predstavil si,
that the tumor is out.
že nádor je vonku.
have already been removed,
about the size of a golf ball or so
o veľkosti golfovej loptičky
of this person's brain.
everything looks the same,
všetko vyzerá rovnako,
and healthy brain tissue
a zdravé mozgové tkanivo
a little bit on the brain,
a little harder, stiffer,
trochu tvrdšie, tuhšie,
a little bit like this and say,
and start cutting the tumor
a začnete nádor odrezávať
to a stage where you think,
I took out everything."
like, pretty crazy --
challenging decision of your life here.
rozhodnutí vo svojom živote.
and let this patient go,
some leftover cancer cells behind
rakovinové bunky zostali,
around the tumor
have to take every single day
musia robiť každý deň,
to a few friends of mine in the lab,
mojich priateľov v labáku,
there's got to be a better way."
musí tu byť lepší spôsob.“
that there's got to be a better way.
že tu musí byť lepší spôsob.
the sugar and so on.
o ktorých som hovoril, a o cukre.
instead of using sugar molecules,
namiesto molekúl cukru,
little particles made of gold,
interesting chemistry around them.
zaujímavých chemických vzťahov.
to look for cancer cells.
aby hľadali rakovinové bunky.
these gold particles
every single cell in our body
každú jednu bunku v našom tele,
or are you a healthy cell?
alebo si zdravá bunka?
prilepíme sa a vysvietime ťa,“
we're sticking in and shining out
"Hey, look at me, I'm here."
„Hej, pozrite, tu som.“
through some interesting cameras
maybe we can guide brain cancer surgeons
navádzať mozgových chirurgov,
and leaving the healthy brain alone.
a ponechali zdravý mozog.
and boy, this works well.
a ide to dobre.
into this mouse's brain
growing in this mouse's brain,
and asked the doctor
a požiadali ho,
as if that was a patient,
out of the tumor.
to see where the gold particles are.
kde sú zlaté čiastočky.
into this mouse,
right here at the very left there
where the gold particles are.
kde sú zlaté čiastočky.
is that these gold particles
"Hey, we're here. Here's the tumor."
„Hej, tu sme. Tu je nádor.“
to the doctor yet.
now please start cutting away the tumor,
just took the first quadrant of the tumor
prvú štvrtinu nádoru,
is now missing.
the second quadrant, the third,
druhú štvrtinu, tretiu,
the doctor came back to us and said,
Čo chcete, aby som urobil?
What do you want me to do?
some extra margins around?"
nejaký extra okraj?“
"You've missed those two spots,
„Zostali tam dve malé miesta,
and then let's take a look."
and lo and behold,
that the cancer is completely gone
ktorá je úplne preč
huge amounts of healthy brain
obrovský počet zdravých buniek
as they take away a tumor,
ktorí vyberajú nádor,
have to guess with their thumb.
to take those tiny little leftover tumors.
vybrať všetky maličké zostatky nádorov.
even if it's just a handful of cells,
dokonca aj hŕstka buniek,
ultimately fail
extra margins that were left positive,
okrajov bol pozitívny,
that were left there.
is where I think we're heading from here.
že budeme smerovať.
what should we be working on now?
na čom budeme pracovať teraz?
medical imaging is heading to
zobrazovanie smeruje
of these cells separately.
z týchto buniek samostatne.
way, way earlier in the process,
so we can actually do something about it.
teda by sme s tým mohli niečo robiť.
of the cells might also allow us
na každú jednu bunku nám umožní
we are now getting to a point
these cancer cells real questions,
rakovinovým bunkám,
to the treatment we are giving you or not?
liečba, ktorú vám dávame?
liečbu musíme zastaviť, hneď teraz,
to stop the treatment right away,
nasty, nasty chemotherapy drugs,
touto hnusnou chemoterapiou,
side effects of the drugs
in fact not even helping them.
from winning the war against cancer,
nad rakovinou,
with better medical imaging techniques
medicínskych zobrazovacích techník,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam de la Zerda - Biologist, electrical engineerAdam de la Zerda develops new medical imaging technologies to detect and destroy cancer.
Why you should listen
Adam de la Zerda is an assistant professor at the Departments of Structural Biology and Electrical Engineering (courtesy) at Stanford University – School of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate degree in computer engineering and physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2005 Summa Cum Laude. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2011, where he developed the Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging technique with Sanjiv Sam Gambhir. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the lab of Carolyn Bertozzi at UC Berkeley – Chemistry Department, before joining the Stanford faculty in 2012.
de la Zerda's research interests span the broad field of molecular imaging. His lab focuses on developing new optical imaging instrumentation and chemistry tools to study the complex spatiotemporal behavior of biomolecules in living subjects. The lab uses animal models for cancer and ophthalmic diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. His research efforts span both basic science and clinically translatable work.
de la Zerda has received many awards and honors for his work, including the Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Baxter Faculty Scholar Award, Dale F. Frey Award, Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 in Science and Healthcare for 2012 and 2014, NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Era of Hope Distinguished Predoctoral Poster Award, Best Poster Presentation at SPIE Photonics West, the Young Investigator Award at the World Molecular Imaging Congress, the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Award for Predoctoral researchers, the Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship and first place at the Bay Area Entrepreneurship Contest. He has published papers in leading journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Nanotechnology and PNAS. He holds a number of patents and is the founder of a medical device company, Click Diagnostics.
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