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Regenerative Medicine: 2008 Millennium Prize Winner - Dr Robert Langer

2008-10-31T02:12:02.058Z

Professor Robert Langer, pioneer of controlled drug release, biomaterials and tissue regeneration, is the Winner of the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize.

Medical Simulation:Optimata’s Virtual Reality Patient Engine

2008-10-02T21:16:21.786Z

Optimata’s patent-protected technology, which comprises a computerized biosimulation system for optimizing drug therapies, is expected to benefit clinical decisionmaking and clinical treatment. Optimata received a U.S. Patent -“Treatment protocol generation for diseases related to angiogenesis” – which the company says “protects a system and methods for modeling diseases which relate to angiogenesis processes, and optimization methods to predict improved treatment regimens.”
The patent protects technology that simulates the angiogenesis process and the way it is affected by diverse drugs.
This reinforces Optimata's position in the field of predictive oncology. By using Optimata’s Virtual Patient Engine drug developers will obtain early indications about the effects of drugs in development and clinicians can gain insight as to various treatment strategies. The company says they will use of its Virtual Patient platform for personalizing several new drugs.

Nanomedicine & MicroMedicine: Nanotechnology and drug delivery

2008-09-14T03:02:00.600Z

Approximately 99 per cent of medicinal molecules don't reach their targets and subsequently, stay in the body of the patient. As these molecules can sometimes be very toxic - particularly in the case of those designed to target cancers - research is being undertaken into more effective ways of safely transporting and delivering drugs.

A challenge for nanotechnology in this research is to create a device which can carry a drug payload to it's target, be monitored throughout it's journey and deliver, without being attacked and destroyed by the body's natural defences. This calls for something which possesses stealth design characteristics and a plausible device is described here in this movie.

This is one of a selection of intriguing movies which are available for free download from the EPSRC Nanotechnology Image Library at : http://www.nanoscience.dept.shef.ac.u...

You may also be interested in navigating to the "Soft Machines" site belonging to Professor Richard Jones - who features in this movie - for up-to-date discourse on all things nano. Here's the link : http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/

EPSRC nanotechnology image library, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield Nanotechnology Teaching Portfolio (www.nanofolio.org).

Informatics: Dr Russ Altman, Stanford, on Bio-Medical Informatics, Pharmacogenomics & Personalized Medicine

2008-07-09T18:19:10.968Z

Dr Russ Altman, a pioneer and leader in bio-medical informatics explains the implications of advancing informatics systems in drug development and precision healthcare. Part of the Google TechTalks series, http://research.google.com/video.html.