MMS Annual Meeting Preview: Omid Farokhzad, MD

www.massmed.org/annual2010 | Dr. Omid Farokhzad leads a team of researchers that is exploring how the application of nanotechnology to medicine can radically alter the way cancer and other diseases are treated.

As director of the Lab of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials of Brigham and Womens Hospital, he will soon lead a clinical trial to investigate whether nanoparticle chemotherapy can be safer and more effective than conventional chemotherapies.

In this brief interview, Dr. Farokhzad discusses the promise of nanotechnology in medicine, and how it could benefit cancer patients.

Dr. Farokhzad will be one of several distinguished speakers at the MMS Annual Meetings Annual Education Session on May 15, 2010.

Other speakers are:
David H. Levy, Astronomer, Jarnac Observatory
Joyce Y. Wong, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering
Hugh M. Herr, PhD, Director, Biomechatronics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Jack W. Szostak, PhD, 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

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