Faces of Technology
Culturing Patient Tumor Cells
for Cancer Cure
According to the American Cancer Society,
there were an estimated 1.6 million new
cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. in 2015.
It’s an alarming statistic that hits home for Dr.
Subhra Mohapatra, co-founder and advisory
chief scientiic oficer of Tampa’s TransGenex
Nanobiotech, and also an associate professor at
the University of South Florida Morsani College of
Medicine.
Mohapatra has been involved in cancer
research for more than 15 years and has seen
the disease’s devastating effects.
“I lost my mother-in-law to cancer, so I’ve been
thinking about ho