MSE Seminar: Avik Som

Event interval: Single day event
Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG)
Campus room: 154
Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars

Title: Image guided biomaterials: Delivering the cure

Abstract: Locoregional delivery of cancer therapies can dramatically increase the chance of success. However, biologics require an ability to be “seen” by CT for accurate delivery and retention. Our group has been building these tools for the delivery to each anatomic compartment, starting with liver and going to bone.

Bio: Dr. Avik Som, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Radiology (Division of Interventional Radiology), and Material Science Engineering. He completed his B.Sc in Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University and then completed a combination MD/PhD training at Washington University in St. Louis. After medical school, Dr. Som completed an integrated residency in interventional and diagnostic radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. While there he did simultaneous post-doctoral training with Robert Langer and C. Giovanni Traverso at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with work focused on creating image guided drug delivery for novel cancer immunotherapy, work translated commercially to Absco Therapeutics. At SAIL, Dr. Som leads the translation of novel material science advances for applications in interventional radiology based on his clinical practice, with a focus on novel cancer therapeutics, tissue engineering, and device development. The goal of the lab is to generate new technologies inspired by the clinic and brought back to treat our patients.