Engineering Bubbles
Currently, the vast majority of medicines are prescribed in the form of a pill or injection with the drug transported throughout the body via the blood stream. For many conditions this is very effective. However, for diseases that require very powerful drugs, such as cancer or stroke, it poses a significant problem – only a very tiny proportion of the drug is actually delivered to the target site. The rest is absorbed by healthy tissue, often leading to serious side effects. Professor Stride (University of Oxford) will describe how tiny gas bubbles, 100 times smaller than a human hair, can be used to address this challenge by enabling “on demand” delivery of a drug to a target site.
Date:
15 February 2017, 19:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2017)
Venue:
St Aldates Tavern
Speaker:
Professor Eleanor Stride (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
oxfordscibar@hotmail.com
Host:
Cristiana Vagnoni (University of Oxford)
Part of:
SciBar
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Nivedita Natarajan
