{"id":2469,"date":"2011-04-29T02:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T02:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2019-05-03T02:57:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:57:40","slug":"hopkins-alumni-learn-about-engineering-in-oncology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/hopkins-alumni-learn-about-engineering-in-oncology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins alumni learn about engineering in oncology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ip-content\">\n<p>As \u00a0part of Johns Hopkins Alumni Weekend 2011, Denis Wirtz, director of the Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center, gave a talk April 29 on how researchers are using physics and engineering to better understand cancer. Wirtz is the Theophilus H. Smoot Professor in the Whiting School of Engineering Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz spoke in Mason Hall Auditorium with about 100 alumni in attendance. He showed animations explaining the process of metastasis and concluded his remark with a viewing of the short movie \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/K-z0zakj0Ew\">INBT: An Overview<\/a>.\u201d The audience seemed engaged and asked several questions following Wirtz\u2019s presentation.\u00a0The talk was presented for the Class of \u201961 alumni.<\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins <a href=\"http:\/\/psoc.inbt.jhu.edu\/\">Engineering in Oncology Center<\/a> is a Physical Sciences-Oncology Center funded by the National Cancer Institute. It was established in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>To see the full gallery of photos from this event, visit this link on the PS-OC \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/fbx\/?set=a.206472496052088.55276.191458847553453&amp;l=8b1ec7873d\">Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ip-more-content\"><\/div>\n<div>Story by: INBT<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As \u00a0part of Johns Hopkins Alumni Weekend 2011, Denis Wirtz, director of the Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center, gave a talk April 29 on how researchers are using physics and engineering to better understand cancer. Wirtz is the Theophilus H. Smoot Professor in the Whiting School of Engineering&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}