Optimizing how medications reach the brain

Optimizing how drugs treat brain cancer is a long-term research project of Satish Krishnamurthy, MD. He discusses this challenge and explains the blood-brain barrier and its role in whether anti-cancer medications can reach the brain as intended. Krishnamurthy is a professor of neurosurgery at Upstate.
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