Mark Grinstaff receives CIMIT’s Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation
Professor Mark Grinstaff (Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering) has received the 2008 Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation from CIMIT as part of the CIMIT Cancer Advanced Technology Team.
CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology) is a non-profit consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools, whose mission is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among world-class experts in medicine, science and engineering, in concert with industry and government, to improve patient care rapidly.
The Kennedy Award is CIMIT’s only annual award and is the single highest honor they offer. Collaborating with Professor Grinstaff are Yolonda Colson, M.D., Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and John Frangioni, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. They are working on the fusion of sentinel lymph node mapping (using novel infrared fluorescence imaging) with polymer-based drug delivery (using nanotechnology) to develop a translational approach to treat metastatic cancer in the lymph nodes regionally.