{"id":239,"date":"2018-03-17T06:54:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/m2d2\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-03-18T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:50:59","slug":"meet-an-m2d2-finalist-3d-tumor-targeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/m2d2\/2018\/03\/17\/meet-an-m2d2-finalist-3d-tumor-targeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet an M2D2 Finalist: 3D Tumor Targeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Huanchen Li of 3D Tumor Targeting<\/p><\/div>\n

3D Tumor Targeting is one of 20 medtech startups chosen as finalists in the 7th annual M2D2 $200K Challenge. Founder Huanchen Li described his innovation and shared the story behind it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the innovation you’ve entered in the M2D2 $200K Challenge?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

With external magnets, we manipulate in vivo<\/i> diamagnetic nanoparticles in a 3D manner into tumors, then heat the nanoparticles to destroy the tumors.<\/p>\n

What inspired you to develop your device?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It has been my lifelong dream to find a cure for cancer. My uncle, who was married but without children, treated me as his own son. I loved him, and he was my hero. However, he got cancer when I was eight years old and passed away when I was ten. I felt powerless to save him and that drove me to conquer cancer.<\/p>\n

I went to medical school in China, studied Toxicology for my MS degree, and studied molecular biology for my PhD degree\u2014all striving toward that goal. When I wasn’t working to support my family, I spent all my spare time searching, reading, and thinking about how to conquer cancer.<\/p>\n

After years of reviewing and investigating most, if not all, approaches to cancer treatment, I came up with the 3D targeting as the most effective cure. The 3D targeting can accurately target and destroy all tumors of all types, anywhere in the body, without filling the body with cancer medicines.<\/p>\n

What are the most significant barriers you\u2019ve faced and overcome?\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

We are still facing the financial challenge of obtaining an electromagnet powerful enough to manipulate the nanomagnets involved on our tumor targeting process\u2014without it, we cannot move forward. There are so many smart scientists and companies who can easily see the potential of this project, once I can present the project to them. We entered the M2D2 Challenge so that we could expose our innovation to a greater number of likely investors.<\/p>\n

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Can you share a \u201cEureka!\u201d moment\u2014a breakthrough in the development of your <\/i><\/b>idea?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

After I came up with the idea, I was wondering why others had not done it. Could it because it would never work? To find an answer, I kept searching and reading. To my surprise and joy, I found mountains of literature that proved the idea will work without a problem. So I’ve always known I’m on the right track.<\/p>\n

If you win, what\u2019s next?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Our next steps would be:<\/p>\n