How can we make living cells into our own best medicine? | Krystyn Van Vliet | TEDxBeaconStreet

Описание: Biological cells from humans are emerging as a new class of medicine, for persistent health challenges ranging from blood cancer to joint repair. Hundreds are in clinical trials, several are approved treatments, and so the complexity and excitement of making these medicines — literally living drug factories — are growing. But this requires new ways of making these biopharmaceuticals, nothing like making aspirin because here the raw materials and final product are living cells with all of the variability and sensitivity that entails. Manufacturing these medicines so each person gets exactly the right cells to treat her condition, as fast and inexpensively and personalized as possible, requires new technology and data analytics. At the limits of that tailoring, each patient gets his own cell therapy factory and all the cells are engineered to maximize benefit to that patient. Most of all, adding cell and gene therapy to the global medical kit requires new ideas and collaborations to harness what our cells do best when our bodies feel at their worst.

Krystyn Van Vliet is the Michael and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT Laboratory for Material Chemomechanics, MIT Lead, SMART CAMP*, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology

*Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalised-Medicine This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx