Category: News & Articles
... 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 ...
Category: Research
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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... 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 ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... 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 ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... integrity of the fetal membranes and hence in preterm birth. Drugs that block the activity of the prorenin receptor and/or tissue renin angiotensin systems are effective anticancer drugs. That early screening of pregnant Indigenous women ... by proving that widely used antihypertensive drugs are effective anticancer agents. Brief Profile Emeritus Professor Eugenie Lumbers AM, ...
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... and breast cancers – but it can be reactivated using certain drugs – and these proteins can then potentially be used to kill cancer ... discovery, they are able to take the next step – develop better drugs to treat the cancers. The ultimate aim of Nikki’s work is to ... treatment a patient needs; and to arm the clinicians with the right drugs to treat those patients. With both breast cancer and AML, there ...
