The Koch Institute grows out of and transcends the MIT Center for Cancer Research (CCR), which was founded in 1974 by Nobel Laureate and MIT Professor Salvador Luria. It is one of eight National Cancer Institute-designated basic (non-clinical) research centers in the U.S. Learn more
Christian Kastrup discusses his image, "Making It Stick: Therapeutics Cling to a Blood Vessel," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/kastrup.
Eric Soller discusses his image, "Friend or Foe: Wound-Healing Cells Quarantine Foreign Materials," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/holz.
Gianluca De Rienzo discusses his image, "A Penetrating View: Seeing Fine Nerves in a Zebrafish Tail," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/derienzo.
John Burpo discusses his image "A Miniature Mesh: Using Viruses to Construct Nanomaterials," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/burpo.
Kara Cerveny discusses her image, "Sunrise in the Eye: The Making of a Retina," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/cerveny.
Kwabena Badu-Nkansah discusses his image, "Seeing the Signal: How Blood Vessels React to Change," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/badu-nkansah-1.
Kwabena Badu-Nkansah discusses his image, "Under Pressure: Mural Cells Wrap Tightly Around Blood Vessels," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/badu-nkansah-2.
Michele Balsamo discusses his image, "Metastatic Breast Cancer Invades a Lung," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/balsamo.
Stephanie Gupton discusses her image, "Yearning to Connect," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. See the image at: http://ki.mit.edu/galleries/2011/gupton.
Gaurav Sahay, Avi Schroeder, Paulina Hill discuss their image, "Hitting a Nerve: Delivering Drugs into A Neuron," one of ten winners of the 2011 Koch Institute Image Awards. Special appearances by Professors Robert Langer and Daniel Anderson. See the image at: ...
How can cancer medicine take advantage of cancer's peculiar eating habits? This video traces the work of the KI's Vander Heiden lab to understand why cancer burns sugar differently from other human cells, and how this could lead to better cancer therapies. The video ...
How can researchers better equip the body's immune system to fight off cancer? This video tells the story of researchers in the Irvine lab at the Koch Institute who have developed a new nanoparticle-based system for boosting the immune response to cancer. The video ...
How can researchers overcome the "toughness" of cancerous tissue and deliver treatments deep inside tumors? This video tells the story of researchers from Sangeeta Bhatia's lab at the KI who have developed a new nanomaterials-based solution to this problem. The video ...
How can doctors more quickly and effectively determine whether a new treatment is working for a cancer patient or not? This video traces the work of the Cima lab at the KI to overcome this problem with a tiny implantable sensor. The video currently appears in the ...
How can doctors detect and stop the deadly process by which cancers spread throughout the body? This video traces the work of the KI's Gertler lab to better understand metastasis and identify new targets for detection and therapy of metastatic cancers. The video ...
Former Bhatia lab graduate student Geoff von Maltzahn discusses a new system that allows nanoparticles to communicate for more efficient cancer targeting.
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