Celebrating the Marble Center: A Decade of Cancer Nanomedicine at MIT

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Now entering its second decade, the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine develops nano-scale technologies and materials for cancer detection, treatment and monitoring.

The Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine is turning 10! Since 2016, the Marble Center has been leveraging advances in miniaturization to tackle grand challenges in cancer detection, treatment and monitoring. Join us as we celebrate Center research, highlight successes, and preview developments guiding the future of cancer nanomedicine. 

Speakers include Marble Center director Sangeeta Bhatia and Koch Institute director Matthew Vander Heiden, Center member Bob Langer, and a panel of Center alumni and collaborators bringing nanomedicine applications to the market. 

4:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m with refreshments to follow. 

Featured speakers 

Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD

Director, Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine
John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  

Robert Langer, ScD

Member, Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine 
David H. Koch (1962) Institute Professor 

Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD

Director, Koch Institute 
Lester Wolfe (1919) Professor of Molecular Biology

Panelists

Susan Hockfield, PhD

President Emerita, MIT
Professor of Neuroscience
Moderator

Viktor Adalsteinsson. PhD

Co-founder, Amplifyer Bio
Director, Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 

Peter DeMuth, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Elicio Therapeutics 

Vadim Dudkin, PhD

Founding Chief Technology Officer, Soufflé Therapeutics

Noor Jailkhani, PhD

CEO, Co-founder & President, Matrisome Bio