Engineering Solutions to the Problems of Cancer
Engineering Solutions to the Problems of Cancer
03/16/2011 10:45 AM KresgePaula T. Hammond, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT; Sangeeta N. Bhatia, SM '93 PhD '97, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor's ...
Engineering New Approaches to Cancer Detection and Therapy
Engineering New Approaches to Cancer Detection and Therapy
06/08/2006 11:30 AM 46-3002Robert S. Langer, Jr., ScD '74, Institute Professor, Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology ; Description: With ...
Engineering a New Attack on Disease
Engineering a New Attack on Disease
05/10/2004 12:00 PM McGovernRichard A. Young, Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology, MITDescription: Out of a world population of 6 billion, 57 million people die each year. And while we have gained 20 years in life expectancy since World War 2, diseases like HIV have taken a toll ...
Drawing the Wiring Diagram of Cancer
Drawing the Wiring Diagram of Cancer
Drawing the Wiring Diagram of Cancer Speakers: Nancy Hopkins, Jacqueline Lees, Michael Yaffe, Forest White
DNA Mutation, Repair and the Environment
DNA Mutation, Repair and the Environment
06/07/2006 10:00 AM 46-3002Leona Samson, Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Toxicology, and; Biological Engineering;; Ellison American Cancer Society Professor; Description: Forget cigarette smoking (well, not completely). The really bad news, says Leona ...
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Excerpted from the MIT150 Documentary "Conquering Cancer... Together," this video highlights the work of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. The Koch Institute dedication ceremony took place on March 4, 2011. View the entire documentary at the ...
Conquering Cancer: Opening Remarks Reflections on Major ...
Conquering Cancer: Opening Remarks Reflections on Major Milestones in ...
03/16/2011 8:30 AM KresgeDavid A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and ...
Computational and Systems Approaches to Cancer
Computational and Systems Approaches to Cancer
06/08/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Michael Yaffe, Professor of Biology, MITDescription: Early on in his lecture, Michael Yaffe serves up an amazing fact: If the distance between each DNA base pair were one foot apart, then each time a cell divided, it would have to copy 568 ...
Circulating Tumor Cells: a Window Into Cancer Metastasis
Circulating Tumor Cells: a Window Into Cancer Metastasis
Daniel Haber - Harvard Medical School/MGH
Cancer Stem Cells and Malignant Progression
Cancer Stem Cells and Malignant Progression
Robert Weinberg - Whitehead Institute
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
06/07/2006 2:30 PM 46-3002Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Eric Lander likens the current age of biological discovery to the days of great ocean-going exploration. After the world was mapped, ...
Building the Foundation of Modern Cancer Research
Building the Foundation of Modern Cancer Research: Four Decades of ...
This film traces the story of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at MIT, from its founding in the early 1970s to its transition to the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in 2007.
Bridge Project Workshop, May 24 2012
Bridge Project Workshop, May 24 2012
Read more about the Bridge Project: http://ki.mit.edu/approach/partnerships/bridge
Profile: Bob Weinberg
Bob Weinberg on his lab's research
The Weinberg lab is known for its discoveries of the first human oncogene — the ras oncogene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the isolation of the first known tumor suppressor gene — the Rb gene.
Biology flash mob
Bio Flash Mob at the Koch Institute
200 Boston-area students, MIT scientists and local community members came together to make cutting-edge cancer research come to life.
B cells in a magnetic field
B cells in a magnetic field
The movement of B cells that carry magnetic nanoparticles in tiny polymer "backpacks" can be controlled by a magnetic field.
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
06/05/2010 KresgeDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MITDescription: Note: This video has some audio problems, which get resolved at early on with some help from an audience member, presumed to be a Course VI alum. MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a general update on the Institute to MIT ...
Animal Models of Cancer
Animal Models of Cancer
06/07/2006 11:00 AM 46-3002Jacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Jacqueline Lees holds the lowly mouse in high regard. It is -beautifully developed" as a model system for cancer. Lees says that while ...
A Network Biology Approach to Cancer
A Network Biology Approach to Cancer
James Collins - Boston University
A Conversation with Richard Hynes
A Conversation with Richard Hynes
Professor Richard Hynes talks about his life in science and biology. Part of the "Conversations with Scientists" series sponsored by the MIT Department of Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.