Cancer innovation wins a Lemelson-MIT prize

Geoffrey von Maltzahn, an MIT graduate student and a biomedical engineer, received the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his nanomedicine innovations in cancer therapy, the Lemelson-MIT program said.

Von Maltzahn, 28, won the prize for developing a new class of cancer therapeutics and a new paradigm for enhancing drug delivery to tumors, the program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said in a press release.

The photo of von Maltzahn that accompanies this post was provided by the program. To read the program's press release on this prize, please click here.

"The $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is awarded annually to an MIT senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system, or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness in other ways," the program said in a press release.

Founded in 1994 by inventor Jerome H. Lemelson and his wife, Dorothy, the Lemelson-MIT Program recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)