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SUMMARY:Invited Academic Seminar Series- Samir Mitragotri
DESCRIPTION:A Hitchhiker’s and Backpacker’s Guide to Drug Delivery\n\n\n\nTargeted delivery of drugs offers a potential to maximize their efficacy and minimize toxicity. Towards this goal\, several novel synthetic drug carriers have been designed and developed. However\, upon injection in the body\, these carriers face the challenge of poor blood circulation\, limited targeting and the inability to negotiate many biological barriers. Biology has provided many examples of successful “carriers” in the form of circulatory cells including red blood cells\, macrophages\, neutrophils and T cells\, among others\, which routinely overcome the hurdles faced by synthetic carriers. We have developed “cellular hitchhiking and backpacking” approaches which involve combining synthetic carriers with circulatory cells to drastically alter the in vivo fate of the carriers as well as the cells. I will provide an overview of the principles and applications of hitchhiking and backpacking approaches for therapeutic delivery and cell therapy. \n\n\n\nBiosketch\n\n\n\nSamir Mitragotri is the Hiller Professor of Bioengineering and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. His research is focused on drug delivery and it has led to new technologies for delivering small molecules\, proteins\, nucleic acids and cells. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering\, National Academy of Medicine\, National Academy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is an author on over 400 publications and an inventor on over 300 patents/patent applications. He is also an elected fellow of AAAS\, CRS\, BMES\, AIMBE\, and AAPS. He received BS in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology\, India and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
URL:https://bme.utoronto.ca/event/invited-academic-seminar-series-samir-mitragotri/
LOCATION:Victoria College\, Chapel (Room 213)\, 91 Charles St W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C7\, Canada
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