MIT Student Wins Prize for Nanomedicine Research
Filed in archive Research on March 7, 2009
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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but this piece really gives food for thought and brings optimismus! what can I say...congratulations!!!
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