{"id":156,"date":"2007-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-71-executive-director-alberta-prion-research-institute\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:47","slug":"innovation-anthology-71-executive-director-alberta-prion-research-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2007\/10\/02\/innovation-anthology-71-executive-director-alberta-prion-research-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #71: Executive Director, Alberta Prion Research Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 071.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p> The big winners in the <strong>2007 Manning Innovation Awards<\/strong> are two researchers who discovered a way to use light to treat <strong>skin cancer.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Back in the late 1970&rsquo;s, <strong>Drs. James Kennedy and Roy Pottier<\/strong> pioneered a new field called photodynamic therapy. <\/p>\n<p> Their work with amino-levulinic acid or ALA led to the development of <strong>Levulan&reg; Photodynamic Therapy<\/strong> .   <\/p>\n<p> ALA is a natural compound that is one of the building blocks of blood.   It forms another compound which, when exposed to light, turns into a killer.   <\/p>\n<p> The two researchers figured they could harness this and use the body&rsquo;s natural chemistry to effectively destroy cancer cells. <\/p>\n<p> They mixed ALA in cold cream, rubbed the salve on their patients&rsquo; skin, and then sat them down  in front of the light shining from a  slide projector.    <\/p>\n<p> The treatment worked and without the side effects  usually accompany radiation treatment.  <\/p>\n<p> Levulan Photo Dynamic Therapy has been used to successfully treat over 300,000 patients with  actinic keratosis, a pre-cancerous skin condition.    <\/p>\n<p> Drs. Kennedy and Poitier ae thrilled to share the <strong>$100,000 Encana Principal Prize<\/strong> bestowed upon them at the <strong>Manning Innovation Awards Gala<\/strong> in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p> <strong> FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY, I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/strong> <\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Dr. Kevin Keough, <\/h3>\n<h4>Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, kevin.keough@albertainnovates.ca<\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02007-10-02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big winners in the <b>2007 Manning Innovation Awards <\/b>are two researchers who discovered a way to use light to treat skin cancer.  Back in the late 1970&rsquo;s, <b>Drs. James Kennedy and Roy Pottier <\/b>pioneered a new field called photodynamic therapy.  Their work with amino-levulinic acid or ALA led to the development of <b>Levulan&reg; Photodynamic Therapy.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-medicine","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4396,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}