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Scientific insight and technological creativity
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Scientific insight and technological creativity are parallel synergistic forces that drive impact in medicine that require ever-greater sophistication in visualizing and controlling our universe across a spectrum of scales – this is where materials science meet medical innovation to change clinical practice.
Modern medicine is marked by the synergistic forces of scientific insight and technological innovation – they fuel each other, generating analytic skills and methodological resources at unparalleled rates. The explosive coupling of innovation with investigation requires ever-more sophisticated methods to visualize structure and function, novel control of intercession, and illumination of impact and unintended effects. We can now fabricate composite devices with dynamic materials that selectively adhere to specific elements of tissues, deliver drugs with defined release kinetics and house cells that serve as local biosensors and bioreactors. Material modifications allow for simultaneous, real time and sequential imaging of implants, their release products and the resulting cellular reactions. We must define, map and analyze the universe affected by diseases and interventions across the spectrum.
Material science offers the promise of realizing these goals — the visualization and control of structures at unprecedented scale, driving insight and fueling innovation beyond our imagination. The more than six-fold reduction in cardiovascular mortality over the past forty years is the direct result of this synergy – the future holds still greater potential.
Elazer Edelman
Elazer R. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Attending Physician in the coronary care unit at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He and his laboratory have pioneered basic findings in vascular biology and the development and assessment of biotechnology. Dr. Edelman directs MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and Clinical Research Center (CRC) as well as the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center (BMEC) – all dedicated to applying the rigors of the physical sciences to elucidate fundamental biologic processes and mechanisms of disease.
More info: https://edelmanlab.mit.edu/elazer-edelman/
Time
5 December 2018
10:30
Location
Politecnico di Milano, Aula Natta
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Milano - Edif. 6
Organizer
Politecnico di Milano