chemotherapeutic drugs

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers created a drug delivery system that is able to effectively deliver a tremendous amount of chemotherapeutic drugs to prostate cancer cells.

(University of California - Los Angeles) A UCLA study demonstrates that nanoparticles can store and deliver chemotherapeutic drugs in vivo and effectively suppress tumors in mice.

Strikingly, these nanoparticles accumulate in tumor after administration. Furthermore, the researchers showed that these nanoparticles are completely excreted from the body.

The findings show promise for further uses of nanoparticles for delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer therapy.

(Jackson Laboratory) With a new two-year, $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill is launching a radical new approach to testing three chemotherapeutic drugs for potential toxic effects, using an outbred mouse population that approximates the genetic diversity observed in human populations.

(University of California - Irvine) UC Irvine researchers have created a new approach that vastly improves the targeting of chemotherapeutic drugs to specific cells and organs.