Women in Cancer Research Mini Seminar Series: Dr. Natalie Artzi

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Dr. Natalie Artzi, an assistant professor of Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School will give talk entitled, "Adaptable Biomaterials for Combination Cancer Therapy" for the Physical Sciences Oncology Center of the [Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology}(https://inbt.jhu.edu/). Dr. Artzi is also a principal research scientist at MIT.

Dr. Artzi will describe nanoparticle systemic delivery combinations with local delivery to improve outcomes, enhance tumor shrinkage, and prevent recurrence in a colon cancer model. By crosslinking nanoparticles to form an injectable adhesive hydrogel, therapeutics can be released in a controlled and selective manner.

She will also discuss treating solid tumors with nanoparticle designs that can provide selective drug uptake in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. The benefits of multimodal combination therapy -- drug release, gene therapy, and thermal ablation -- to treat solid tumors, and the opportunities to combine cancer immunotherapy to achieve robust and long-lasting responses will also be highlighted.