MIT Student Wins Prize for Nanomedicine Research
MIT PHd student Geoffrey von Maltzahn won this year's $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for "developing a technique that utilizes nanosize gold particles to target malignant tumors and kill cancer cells but spares healthy tissue," according to Scientific American's Larry Greenemeier.
"Von Maltzahn developed polymer-coated gold nano-antennas that can be injected intravenously and travel to the tumor site, infiltrating tumor blood vessels," writes InventorSpot's Myra Per-Lee. "When the antennas are heated with a non-invasive infra-red light, they can eradicate the tumor, leaving healthy cells alone. Experiments on tumors in mice have reversed 100 percent of tumor growth with only one injection of the nano-antennas."
More here from the Boston Globe … more here from Mass High Tech … and the press release is here.
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August 7th, 2009 at 7:31 am