Cancer

Cancer research funding called key

NCI head gives talk

April 25, 2006

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, seated, joins Dr. Omid C. Farokhzad and researcher Benjamin A. Teply beside a monitor displaying an image of nanoparticles on Friday, March 31. The three are among a team of researchers that showed nanoparticles could be custom designed to destroy cancer cells.

Nanoparticles armed to combat cancer

April 10, 2006

New tools enable large-scale studies of gene function

April 7, 2006

Dr. Raphael Bueno, left, and team use a new MIT technology to shrink a patient's lung tumor by more than 90 percent during laser surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

MIT technology used to shrink tumor

April 5, 2006

Jacks earns top cancer award

April 4, 2006

Professors Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Peter K. Sorger and Michael B. Yaffe share a moment together in Sorger's lab. The three members of MIT's Center for Cancer Research led a team of scientists that has found links between inflammatory disease and cancer.

Studies link cancer, inflammatory disease

March 29, 2006

Robert Weinberg wins major cancer prize

March 8, 2006

MIT method reveals how radiation damages the body

February 28, 2006

Blood researchers find mechanism behind disease

December 19, 2005

Jacks to share cancer research prize

November 16, 2005

MIT cancer program granted $3.2 million

October 21, 2005

MIT chosen for national role fighting cancer

October 4, 2005

Team discovers why melanoma is so malignant

September 23, 2005

Chemotherapy-loaded nanoparticles, left, form the core of the nanocell, right, as seen under the electron microscope. The outer lighter layer of the nanocell stores the drug that cuts blood supply after the nanocell has entered the tumor.

MIT engineers an anti-cancer smart bomb

July 27, 2005

Robert Langer gives a talk on 'Cancer Drug Delivery' at Kresge Auditorium during a symposium on 'The New Science of Cancer Therapy' held Friday, June 24.

Langer talk highlights cancer symposium

June 30, 2005

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