{"id":6660,"date":"2008-10-26T09:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T13:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2010-07-16T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:27:20","slug":"mark-grinstaff-receives-cimits-edward-m-kennedy-award-for-healthcare-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2008\/10\/26\/mark-grinstaff-receives-cimits-edward-m-kennedy-award-for-healthcare-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Grinstaff receives CIMIT&#8217;s Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5308\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/grinstaff\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5308 \" title=\"Professor Mark Grinstaff\" src=\"\/chemistry\/files\/2009\/06\/Grinstaff-2009HSb-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Mark Grinstaff\" width=\"120\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2009\/06\/Grinstaff-2009HSb-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/files\/2009\/06\/Grinstaff-2009HSb.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Mark Grinstaff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/grinstaff\">Mark   Grinstaff<\/a> (Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering) has received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cimit.org\/news\/kennedyaward08.html\">2008 Edward M.  Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation<\/a> from CIMIT as part of the  CIMIT Cancer Advanced Technology Team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cimit.org\/about.html\">CIMIT<\/a> (Center for  Integration of Medicine &amp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Kennedy Award is CIMIT&#8217;s only annual award and is the  single highest honor they offer. Collaborating with Professor Grinstaff  are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfhcc.harvard.edu\/index.php?id=365&amp;print=1&amp;no_cache=1&amp;memberID=869\">Yolonda  Colson<\/a>, M.D., Ph.D., Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfhcc.harvard.edu\/index.php?id=365&amp;print=1&amp;no_cache=1&amp;memberID=4144\">John  Frangioni<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Innovative Technology) is a non-profit consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools, whose mission is to foster interdisciplinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1240,1501],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}