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... product chemistry within our lab, to find plant-based anti-cancer drugs. By Dr Chris Scarlett There are no two ways about it. Pancreatic ... derived from natural products (as critically >50% of all anti-cancer drugs are derived from natural products). Importantly, plant-derived anti-cancer drugs have been developed and are in use clinically. For example the ...
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Research Methods of developing new anticancer drugs ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
What are your research interests? I’m particularly passionate about anticancer drug pharmacology and its variation – why do certain ... and others do not? We are measuring the blood concentration of some anticancer drugs and their metabolites in treated cancer patients (with adrenal ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... how cancer cells grow, survive and spread, so that we can develop new drugs that target these cancer-specific pathways I also conduct research ... horrible it is. I have focused my research efforts on developing new drugs for cancer that are not only effective, but that have fewer side ... these pathways. She is currently examining the efficacy of these new drugs in a range of cancer types, including leukaemia, breast and ...
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... researchers who made them. Doan’s research focuses on identifying drugs that protect the heart from toxic side effects of cancer therapies ... conditions than the rest of the population as the use of anti-cancer drugs can be toxic to the heart. This means over two million ...
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... with loss of PPP2R2A are highly sensitive to two specific classes of anticancer drugs: 1) PARP inhibitors - these are a class of drugs currently in clinical trials for a range of cancers. We believe ...
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... potentially be effective for other types of cancer. “Anti-cancer drugs typically work by targeting proteins, making our finding highly ... a therapeutic vulnerability. “We knew if we could find or develop drugs that targeted the proteins active or present in the leukaemia ...
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... My research program is focused on developing new anti-leukaemia drugs and determining their mechanism of action, synthesised in ... research program is focused on developing new anti-leukaemia drugs synthesised in collaboration with the UNSW Chemistry Department. ...
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... new treatment strategy will allow us to better design anti-cancer drugs. What do you hope to achieve in the future? The use of naturally ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... of better understanding the biology of a disease, and then developing drugs to target biological changes, our work is also applicable to other diseases. For example, in collaborative work our targeted drugs are showing great promise in a range of inflammatory diseases such ... I remember visiting him in the hospital and thinking that the drugs he was taking were only making him sicker. During my Honours year ...
