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: 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: 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: 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: Herman Eisen, Ph.D.
Inside the Lab: Herman Eisen, Ph.D.
Learn more about the collaborative research that Professor Emeritus Eisen and his colleagues are conducting to better understand how the immune system could be used to fight cancer.
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: Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D.
Inside the Lab: Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D.
Learn more the work going on in the Irvine lab, which focuses on development of drug delivery tools and new methods for analyzing cellular immune responses.
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: 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: Angelika Amon, Ph.D.
Inside the Lab: Angelika Amon, Ph.D.
Learn more about the Amon lab and how understanding cell division and cell stress may lead to the development of new drugs or compounds that selectively kill cancer cells.
Immunology and Cancer
Immunology and Cancer
06/08/2006 9:00 AM 46-3002Jianzhu Chen, Cottrell Professor of Biology;; Professor of ImmunologyDescription: Jianzhu Chen lays out the thorny challenges of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. He starts with the basics: how the body employs two levels of defense against pathogens: ...
How Does Cancer Learn to Spread?
How Does Cancer Learn to Spread?
This video profiles the Jacks Laboratory's work to understand the genetic pathways that enable the deadly spread of cancer. It is currently featured in the Koch Institute Public Galleries at MIT. See more educational exhibits from the Galleries at http://ki-galleries.mit.edu/.
How Did We Get Here?
How Did We Get Here?
Robert Weinberg plots the 200-year course of cancer research, finding neglected byways, wrong turns, and astonishing advances.
How Cancer Begins
How Cancer Begins
09/22/2003 McGovern AuditoriumRobert A. Weinberg, '64, PhD '69, Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of BiologyDescription: If you're worried about getting cancer, do yourself a favor: steer clear of red meat and rich foods, and avoid ...
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
05/11/2010 6:00 PM MuseumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Monica Diez"Silva, Post"doctoral fellow, DMSE; David Quinn, Graduate student, Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Malaria has afflicted mankind from time immemorial, confounding many ...
Gut Microbes and Cancer: A Pioneer's Passion - Part 2
Gut Microbes and Cancer: A Pioneer's Passion - Part 2
A Celebration of the Life and Work of David B. Schauer This symposium celebrates the professional life of Prof. David Schauer, with a focus on the field of microbial pathogenesis. David Schauer's research dealt with the molecular mechanisms evoked by enteric ...
From Targets to Drugs for Cancer Patients
From Targets to Drugs for Cancer Patients
Edwin Clark - Merck Research Laboratories
Frank Gertler discusses Mena
Frank Gertler discusses Mena, new cancer test possibilities
MIT biology professor Frank Gertler discusses the Mena protein, and a test developed with two colleagues that could help doctors precisely identify which breast cancer patients should receive aggressive therapy.
Environmental Health Sciences: Bridging the Gap Between ...
Environmental Health Sciences: Bridging the Gap Between Genetics and ...
Researchers at MIT's Center for Environmental Health Sciences probe the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of illnesses such as lung cancer. A video produced by AMPS/MIT Libraries for the MIT Museum's classroom/exhibit, "Learning Lab: The ...
Engineering Solutions to the Problems of Cancer
Engineering Solutions to the Problems of Cancer
MIT150 Symposium Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering Symposium Session 2 - March 16th, 2011 Chair Paula T. Hammond - Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT Speakers Sangeeta N. Bhatia - Professor of Health Sciences and ...