The Doctor Is In: Targeted Therapies in Non-Small Cell Lung ...
The Doctor Is In - KI Special Series December 2011 - Targeted Therapies in ...
From December 2011: "Targeted Therapies in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer"
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
The Doctor Is In - KI Special Series November 2011 - Non-Small Cell Lung ...
"The Doctor is IN" is a monthly seminar series at the Koch Institute at MIT. The goal of this seminar is to discuss the clinical management of different cancer types.
Solutions with/in/sight: November 10th, 2011
Solutions with/in/sight: November 10th, 2011
This event, the second in the Koch Institute's with/in/sight lecture series, featured three expert perspectives on new tools and devices being used in the management of cancer. The evening's speakers were: Barbara Smith, director of the Breast Program and Co-Director ...
Installing "Eureka!" in the Koch Institute Public Galleries
Installing "Eureka!" in the Koch Institute Public Galleries
This video follows artist Cork Marcheschi as he installs his new sculpture "Eureka!" in the Koch Institute Public Galleries. The piece marks the entrance to the Robert A. Swanson (1969) Biotechnology Center and recognizes Robert Swanson's formative role in the ...
Inside the lab: J. Christopher Love, Ph.D.
Inside the lab: J. Christopher Love, Ph.D.
Learn more about how the Love lab is using miniature micro titer plates and micro fluidics to evaluate populations of cells, maximize their productivity, and ultimately improve the process for developing cancer biologics.
Inside the lab: Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D.
Inside the lab: Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D.
Learn more about the work that Professor Anderson's lab is doing to create tiny nanoparticles that can deliver RNA to a cancer cell to stop tumor growth--and how they are collaborating with industry to speed development of this potential therapy.
Inside the lab: Forest M. White, Ph.D.
Inside the lab: Forest M. White, Ph.D.
Learn more about how the White lab is using mass spectrometry to better understand the key components of cell signaling that drive how cancer cells invade and proliferate in glioblastoma.
Inside the lab: Jacqueline A. Lees, Ph.D.
Inside the lab: Jacqueline A. Lees, Ph.D.
Learn more about the work that Professor Lees and her lab are doing to understand how proteins and pathways are mutated in cancer--and how they hope to make advances in detecting and hopefully treating osteosarcoma.
Inside the lab: Paul Chang, Ph.D.
Inside the lab: Paul Chang, Ph.D.
Learn more about the Chang lab's work to better understand a family of proteins, called PARPs, and how blocking specific PARPs might be a promising target for cancer therapies.
Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Kwabena Badu-Nkansah ...
Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Kwabena Badu-Nkansah (2nd Image)
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.
Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Kwabena Badu-Nkansah
Koch Institute Image Awards Winner: Kwabena Badu-Nkansah
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.
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Cutting off Cancer's Food ...
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Cutting off Cancer's Food Supply
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 ...
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Engineering the Immune ...
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Engineering the Immune System
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 ...
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Stopping the Spread of ...
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Stopping the Spread of Cancer
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 ...
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Sensing Cancer
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Sensing Cancer
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 ...
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Making Tumors Vulnerable
Koch Institute Public Galleries: Making Tumors Vulnerable
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 ...