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THIS TINY PARTICLE COULD ROAM YOUR BODY TO FIND TUMORS

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What if we could find cancerous tumors years before they can harm us -- without
expensive screening facilities or even steady electricity? Physician,
bioengineer and entrepreneur Sangeeta Bhatia leads a multidisciplinary lab that
searches for novel ways to understand, diagnose and treat human disease. Her
target: the two-thirds of deaths due to cancer that she says are fully
preventable. With remarkable clarity, she breaks down complex nanoparticle
science and shares her dream for...
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What if we could find cancerous tumors years before they can harm us -- without
expensive screening facilities or even steady electricity? Physician,
bioengineer and entrepreneur Sangeeta Bhatia leads a multidisciplinary lab that
searches for novel ways to understand, diagnose and treat human disease. Her
target: the two-thirds of deaths due to cancer that she says are fully
preventable. With remarkable clarity, she breaks down complex nanoparticle
science and shares her dream for...
SHOW MORE

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER


Sangeeta Bhatia
Physician, bioengineer and entrepreneur
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Sangeeta Bhatia is a cancer researcher, MIT professor and biotech entrepreneur
who works to adapt technologies developed in the computer industry for medical
innovation.


SANGEETA BHATIA'S RESOURCE LIST


Lewis Thomas | Penguin, 1995 | Book

THE YOUNGEST SCIENCE: NOTES OF A MEDICINE-WATCHER

Using engineering tools to address medical problems is an example of convergence
research: the integration of life, physical and engineering science to solve
problems in human health. This idea has it origins in the 20th century, as
described by Lewis Thomas, and has recently been formalized by a group of
American researchers.

Lewis Thomas was an American physician and essayist, in the vein of Oliver Sacks
and Atul Gawende. He was a self-described 'medicine watcher.' My favorite of his
books is not his most well-known or most lauded: The Youngest Science. It
describes the evolution of medicine from an art to a sophisticated science over
the course of the 20th century, and the power and importance of converging basic
research with medical practice.

MIT, 2016 | Article

CONVERGENCE: THE FUTURE OF HEALTH

This report argues that truly major advances in the fight against cancer,
dementia and diseases of aging, still rampant infectious disease, and a host of
other pressing health challenges will only come from a novel research strategy
that integrates biomedical knowledge with advanced engineering skills and
expertise from physical, computational, and mathematical sciences, an approach
known as Convergence.

National Nanotechnology Initiative | Explore

WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY?

Learn more about nanotechnology.

National Cancer Institute | Explore

ALLIANCE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY IN CANCER

Learn more about US efforts in nanotechnology and cancer.

MIT | Explore

THE MARBLE CENTER FOR CANCER NANOMEDICINE

Learn more about individuals conducting convergence research.
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