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My father and my grandfather were always looking for the newest thing in alternative or traditional
therapies
for PH, but after six months, I couldn't walk up a small hill.
Stem cell
therapies
may one day reduce the need for donor organs.
How about more targeted
therapies
for cancer?
And so, I guess you'd say, dissatisfied with the performance and quality of these medicines, I went back to school, in chemistry, with the idea that perhaps by learning the trade of discovery chemistry and approaching it in the context of this brave new world of the open source, the crowd source, the collaborative network that we have access to within academia, that we might more quickly bring powerful and targeted
therapies
to our patients.
Physical
therapies
can be done, not only in the orthopedic center, but also in the houses of the people.
We have effective
therapies
now.
The first is cellular
therapies.
We're looking at ways to make bees healthier through vaccines, through yogurt, like probiotics, and other types of
therapies
in ways that can be fed orally to bees, and this process is so easy, even a 7-year-old can do it.
What we saw very quickly is the world of both medical research, but also developing drugs and treatments, is dominated by, as you would expect, large organizations, but in a new field, sometimes large organizations really have trouble getting out of their own way, and sometimes they can't ask the right questions, and there is an enormous gap that's just gotten larger between academic research on the one hand and pharmaceutical companies and biotechs that are responsible for delivering all of our drugs and many of our treatments, and so we knew that to really accelerate cures and therapies, we were going to have to address this with two things: new technologies and also a new research model.
And so thinking about the models that we've just discussed, you can see, going forward, that tissue engineering is actually poised to help revolutionize drug screening at every single step of the path: disease models making for better drug formulations, massively parallel human tissue models helping to revolutionize lab testing, reduce animal testing and human testing in clinical trials, and individualized
therapies
that disrupt what we even consider to be a market at all.
Ironically, at that time in my life, I was also doing cancer research, immune-based
therapies
for melanoma, to be specific, and in that world I was actually taught to question everything, to challenge all assumptions and hold them to the highest possible scientific standards.
President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, but we soon discovered there are many kinds of cancer, most of them fiendishly resistant to therapy, and it is only in the last 10 years that effective, viable
therapies
have come to seem real.
It really just isn't working, and that means that patients that badly need new
therapies
are not getting them, and diseases are going untreated.
I mean, you can think of clothes constructed form renewable biobased sources, cars running on biofuel from engineered microbes, plastics made from biodegradable polymers and customized therapies, printed at a patient's bedside.
I can even imagine a day when it's routine for people to have a DBC to connect to their home computer or smart phone as a means to download their prescriptions, such as insulin or antibody
therapies.
But maybe, if what we're trying to do is to develop
therapies
for prevention, maybe what we should be doing is studying those who don't get sick.
And again, what she found was some of those individuals had mutations that were protective from birth that kept them, even though they had high lipid levels, and you can see this is an interesting way of thinking about how you could develop preventive
therapies.
In order for us to get this project to work, we need individuals to step up in a different role and to be engaged, to realize this dream, this open crowd-sourced project, to find those unexpected heroes, to evolve from the current concepts of resources and constraints, to design those preventive therapies, and to extend it beyond childhood diseases, to go all the way up to ways that we could look at Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, we're going to need us to be looking inside ourselves and asking, "What are our roles?
They want to talk to you about what sorts of therapies, largely behavior therapies, you've tried with that animal.
Today, our team has grown, and we are using the Hasini effect to develop combination
therapies
that will effectively target tumor growth and metastases.
This is truly amazing because it suggests that we can pilot
therapies
by trying them out in a whole bunch of different mice with individual people's gut communities and perhaps tailor those
therapies
all the way down to the individual level.
We've tried to kill cells using a variety of chemotherapies or targeted therapies, and as most of us know, that's worked.
So, if we are really going to deliver in medicine in this way, we have to think of personalizing cellular therapies, and then personalizing organ or organismal therapies, and ultimately personalizing immersion
therapies
for the environment.
I think that it's likely that we will see clinical trials and possibly even approved
therapies
within that time, which is a very exciting thing to think about.
The answer lies in the placebo effect, an unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and
therapies
that aren't supposed to have an effect, and are often fake, miraculously make people feel better.
If somebody believes a fake treatment has cured them, they may miss out on drugs or
therapies
that are proven to work.
We invented pacemakers and X-ray, and we even came into this wonderful new era of cell and gene
therapies.
The other major catch is that not everyone in the world has access to the
therapies
that could save their lives.
Today, doctors work with patients on a case-by-case basis to administer a combination of treatments and
therapies
that allows them to live to their fullest possible potential.
And if it doesn't function well, then these computers themselves can be used as assistive devices for
therapies.
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