Research Fellow, Dr. Shah, Attacks Brain Tumors From the Inside Out

Dr. Khalid Shah, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and 2007 ACGT Young Investigator was the first recipient of the Greenwich-Stamford Swim Across America Award.  He has a new method for taking deadly brain tumors apart from the inside out by engineering stem cells to secrete cancer-killing cytotoxins that degrade the tumor from within its core. In the future Shah says, the cytotoxins could be altered to target different types of cancer receptors, in order to make treatments more personalized. Read more about this breakthrough methodology.