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>> Next up and speaking on a cheap chip simplifying cell therapy. Some of you may have heard of car t. cells a new therapy that uses a patient's own cells to fight cancer they've made headlines everywhere from scientific journals to Time magazine this famous little girl Emily Whitehead is one of thousands of patients diagnosed with terminal cancer whose lives were saved by Carty clinical trials this was it the miracle cure the world is waiting for However almost a year after Carty cells hit the market I asked a leading Un College just how many patients had received this treatment at Emory you thought for a moment and answered one just one How was that possible when patients were flooding waiting lists why on cross the country for clinical trials Well now that it's on the market patients have to pay for it they can cost almost half a $1000000.00 for a single dose the lesson here is if we create the cure for cancer that no one can afford then we have not truly cured cancer now to make our teeth there appease pharma companies rely on custom made viruses to reprogram cells with designer d.n.a. making these viruses is a complicated process that drives up costs and limits patient access to this lifesaving treatment we've proposed to revolutionize this complex field with simplicity and my thesis has developed a microfluidic chip to efficiently deliver large molecules like d.n.a. into human cells to potentially replace viruses and making card t. cell therapies requires minimal skill to operate no viruses no chemicals not even electricity just mix cells with your target molecules and flow through the chip inside the microfluidic chip are tiny speed bumps that mechanically compress cells as they pass through.

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We use the cells natural ability to rapidly compress and then absorb surrounding target molecules as it relaxes just like a sponge we've successfully delivered various target molecules including proteins and d.n.a. and the several types of human cells for therapeutic applications a single chip cost just a few dollars to me that can process of 2 a 1000000 cells per 2nd doing the work of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of viruses using this cheap little chip we aim to simplify cell therapies and make life saving miracle cures accessible to everyone thank you thank.