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MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering
February 25, 2026

Angela Belcher on improving ovarian cancer diagnostics

Belcher discusses how nanomaterials could help detect ovarian cancer earlier on GBH News.
Categories: In the Media
Professors Angela Belcher and Sangeeta Bhatia chat with Edgar B. Herwick III of GBH’s "The Curiosity Desk".
Image courtesy of GBH News

DMSE Professor Angela Belcher and MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia chat with Edgar B. Herwick III of GBH’s The Curiosity Desk about their efforts aimed at improving diagnostics for ovarian cancer. “We now know that ovarian cancer doesn’t originate in the ovaries. About 80% of the time, ovarian cancer starts in the fallopian tubes, but it can sit there as this precancerous lesion,” explains Belcher. “There’s new technologies that can be invented and developed to detect it much earlier, because if it’s detected earlier…there’s such an opportunity to make an impact.” 

Watch the full segment on GBH News.