Video lecture: Nanoconstructs in theranostics

Watch a video presentation on nanoconstructs from the Houston Methodist Research Institute and Tel Aviv University (TAU) posted online from the recent Summer School on Nanomedicine and Innovation.

The video features Paolo Decuzzi, PhD, interim chair for the department of translational imaging at Houston Methodist Hospital System. This session focuses specifically on multifunctional discoidal polymeric nanoconstructs in oncologic applications.

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