Podcast: How Cells Turn Rogue and Cause Cancer
Podcast: How Cells Turn Rogue and Cause Cancer
In this podcast, recorded at ASME’s 4th 2015 Global Conference on Nanoengineering for Medicine and Biology, Dr. Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University,discusses how cells turn rogue, escape incarceration, and become a cancer upon their surroundings. Dr. Wirtz isVice Provost for Research and T.H. Smoot Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at JHU, where he also directs the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and co-directs the Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center.
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