Date: 2015-02-19
Type of information: Nomination
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Company: Nanobiotix (France)
Therapeutic area: Cancer - Oncology
Type agreement: nomination
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Details: * On February 19, 2015, Nanobiotix, a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering novel approaches for the local treatment of cancer, announced that Professor Robert Langer, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has become Scientific Advisor to Nanobiotix. Professor Langer presides over the largest academic biomedical engineering laboratory in the world. His laboratory is centered in the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His team has more than 100 researchers including chemists, biologists, materials science engineers and computer scientists. He is also a Principle Investigator at the MIT-Harvard Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, one of eight Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence awarded by The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Beyond his extensive involvement and leadership in MIT’s scientific community, Professor Langer’s research has spawned a vast array of innovative and disruptive technologies. He holds over 1 000 patents in diverse areas of biomedical technology and has been involved in the launch or acceleration of numerous biotech companies including BIND Therapeutics, Enzytech and Pervasis as examples. In September 2014, Nanobiotix opened its US affiliate in the Boston Life Science hub, in Cambridge MA. The location provides access to a critical mass of academic and medical institutions as well as biopharmaceutical industries, and will ensure access to the research community and clinical expertise in the US.
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