Our Role & Impact

Enabling the discoveries that ensure families are happy and healthy

Our Role & Impact
  1. Our Role & Impact
  2. RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH HMRI
  3. Developing Synthetic Exosomes to Target and Deliver Anti-Cancer Agents to Prostate Cancer Cells

Developing Synthetic Exosomes to Target and Deliver Anti-Cancer Agents to Prostate Cancer Cells

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in Australia. Once a prostate cancer begins to spread (metastasise), it becomes very difficult to treat and often results in patient death. 

This project will try to identify whether exosomes are targeting a specific type of cell to give their messages to and attempt to hijack this process to be able to deliver anti-cancer agents specifically to these sites. This will allow us to develop a selective treatment option for men with metastatic prostate cancer that could potentially lead to a reduction in the number of deaths associated with this disease.

Researchers 

Mr Joshua Brzozowski, Dr Judith Weidenhofer, Dr Kathryn Skelding

Research Area 
Cancer
Project type 
Scholarship
Year of funding 
2014