Vascular Malformations — Part 2: The Angiogenesis Hypothesis

Why do the often-fatal deformities of children with vascular malformations recur after surgery? This short documentary highlights a hypothesis according to which certain drugs already approved for other uses may prevent recurrence, saving children's lives.

Interviewee: Dr. Arin Greene, Harvard Medical School and Department of Plastic Surgery at Children's Hospital Boston

This is part 2. In part 1, Dr. Greene tells the story of one of his patients and his mission, which was inspired by his own childhood: Part 1: A Calling.

2009

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.