Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
Laura Indolfi: Pankreas kanserine karşı mücadelede iyi haber
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?
en az birini tanıyor?
in their fields.
all of them have in common?
ne olduğunu biliyor musunuz?
very sad this news,
of how lethal this disease can be.
konusunda farkındalık yarattık.
of cancer deaths,
will survive beyond five years.
with breast cancer,
is almost 90 percent.
with pancreatic cancer
karşı karşıya olunduğu
certain death sentence.
pek şaşırtıcı değil.
is that in the last 40 years,
gelişmeler yaşanırken,
treatment more effective?
nasıl daha etkili hâle getirebiliriz?
üzerinde çalışmalar yapmak istiyorum.
that seem impossible,
innovative solutions
bulmak istiyorum.
with pancreatic cancer
of your belly, literally.
bölgesinin ortasında olmasıdır.
kaldırılana kadar
organs in front.
by many other vital organs,
mide ve safra kanalı gibi
the bile duct.
tarafından çevrelenmiştir.
to grow into those organs
also prevents the doctor
for breast cancer, for example.
chemotherapy as the only option
tek seçeneğidir.
piece of bad news.
very few blood vessels.
kan damarı vardır.
about the blood vessel of a tumor?
damarlarıyla ilgilenelim?
how chemotherapy works.
until it reaches the tumor site.
tüm vücudu dolaşır,
trying to reach a destination.
ulaşmaya çalışmak gibidir.
doesn't have an exit on the highway?
bir çıkış noktası yoksa?
için de problem aynıdır.
throughout all of your body.
etkilere sebep olurlar.
for the patients overall,
to have a whole-body treatment
mantık dışıdır.
çok fazla parasal kaynak,
and effort have gone towards
to treat pancreatic cancer,
in changing the way
iyi bir haber veriyorum.
good news, hopefully.
General Hospital in Boston,
the way we treat cancer
olarak ulaştırarak
drug delivery a reality.
yaratacak bir yol bulduk.
on top of your destination,
all around the highway.
cihazlara yerleştiriyoruz.
into devices that look like this one.
that they can be folded
directly on top of the tumor
doğrudan tümörün üstüne yerleştirir.
that once they are positioned
görevi görür.
physically prevent the tumor
kontrol altına alarak
yok olabilmekte.
slowly and more effectively
bütün vücuda verilmesinden
whole-body treatment.
we have demonstrated
karşılığın 12 kat
the response to treatment.
where it's needed the most,
that is 12 times more powerful,
seviyeye taşımak için
this technology to the next level.
prior to asking the FDA for approval
pankreas kanserinden ölecek.
will die from pancreatic cancer.
extend their life
yaşamlarını uzatabiliriz.
tamamen tedavi edilebilir
daha güçlü veya daha az
more powerful and less toxic,
to finding new innovative solutions
kapısını açtık.
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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