Daniel Kohane

Smart vehicles for safer medications

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About Daniel Kohane

Daniel Kohane is a leading drug delivery and biomaterials researcher who uses nanoparticle technology to transform the power, safety, and specificity of drugs. A doctor of both medicine and physiology, with clinical training in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care, he is a multidisciplinary problem solver whether directing his biomedical engineering lab or caring for gravely ill children in the hospital. Dan is a Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate in Pediatric Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital. When not inventing new vehicles for making medications safer and more effective and saving children’s lives, he tinkers in various other industries, including a recent project to enhance the smell of microwave pizza.

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Daniel Kohane, Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate in Pediatric Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital, reveals some of the amazing work he’s doing with nanoparticle technology to transform the power, safety, and specificity of drugs.

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