Sangeeta Bhatia - It’s a Small World After All: Tiny Technologies and Liver Disease
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/12/18
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April 28, 2018 - Advances in medical technology have come from cross-fertilization with other major industries: chemicals that became drugs, plastics that became prostheses, and even telecomm fibers that enabled minimally-invasive surgery. Bhatia will discuss how another revolution, the computer revolution, led to micro- and nanoscale fabrication methods that can likewise impact human health. In particular, Bhatia applies tiny technologies to understand and intervene in diseases of the liver such as infection, fibrosis, and failure from drug toxicity. Bhatia represents Class III.
