Gene Expression Effects of the Delivery of SN-38 via Poly(D-L-lactide-co-caprolactone) Nanoparticles Comprising Dense and Collapsed Poloxamer Coronae

YUCOMAT 2023: An International Advisory Board Member’s Digest

“…In this lecture [26], I shared a provocative idea that poverty in terms of the inaccessibility of resources for research could be a great driver for the derivation of inventive scientific concepts. To illustrate this idea, I used my personal story of having once abundant resources for research and personal income reduced to nil over five years ago, in the spring of 2018, after which I continued to do research to the best of my capabilities, despite the financial hardships, turning backyards [27,28], kitchens [29,30], bedrooms [31], playgrounds [32], lagoons [33], and open air [34] into laboratories and also engaging in a range of national and international scientific collaborations [35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. When the wittiness and groundbreaking potential of research prior to and after this transition were compared, not only the greater inventiveness of the latter but also its greater potential for translation to products accessible to people in poor countries of the world were seen, justifying the choice for the title of the talk: Materials Science of and for the Poor.…”