{"398631":{"#nid":"398631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Thomas Gets Komen Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESusan Thomas, faculty member of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, was recently awarded a three-year, $450,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe grant \u2013 the first Komen award to the Georgia Institute of Technology \u2013 will be used to study how targeted delivery technology developed in the Thomas lab can be used to deliver drugs to sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients, a form of immunotherapy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen cancer cells spread from a primary tumor in the breast, their first stop in the lymph nodes are typically the sentinel lymph nodes. Sentinel lymph nodes are the first lymph nodes to which cancer cells are most likely to spread from a primary tumor. Thomas has been exploring how targeted delivery of therapeutics could promote anti-tumor immunity and hinder tumor growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cImmunotherapy has the potential to treat tumors that we can\u2019t actually see,\u201d says Thomas, assistant professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, who is also affiliated with the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cBut our immune system can see them,\u201d she adds. \u201cSo this is a way of teaching our immune system to find the cancer and kill it, or prevent the disease occurrence. If we could teach our immune systems to kill, say, a breast tumor or breast cancer metastases or any other malignant tumor, that would be very beneficial in the long term.\u201d \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Study will focus on drug delivery for breast cancer patients"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudy will focus on drug delivery for breast cancer patients\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Study will focus on drug delivery for breast cancer patients"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-04-23 08:46:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:03","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"398621":{"id":"398621","type":"image","title":"Susan Thomas","body":null,"created":"1449246371","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:11","changed":"1475895115","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:55","alt":"Susan Thomas","file":{"fid":"75740","name":"susan_t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/susan_t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/susan_t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1859198,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/susan_t.jpg?itok=-D7eJ-Gk"}}},"media_ids":["398621"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"171412","name":"sentinel lymph nodes"},{"id":"171413","name":"Susan B. Komen Foundation"},{"id":"169542","name":"Susan Thomas"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}