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Grant Holder Dr Sotiris Missailidis

Current project Milton Keynes - Midlands, South Yorkshire Institute The Open University, Milton Keynes Amount Awarded £143,944.00 Duration 36 months Type of Award Project grant

Title

Aptamer technologies for diagnostic imaging and targeted therapy of breast cancer

Synopsis

This project aims to develop new techniques for the early detection and targeted treatment of breast cancer.

Aims & Goals

"Our work is aimed at the development of new anticancer agents that can offer great help to those who suffer from breast cancer. It has the potential for a triple use. It can be used as a diagnostic assay for the detection of cancer, it can help monitor the progression or regression of the disease as an imaging agent and finally the potential to act as a targeted therapeutic that may offer a treatment of the disease, whilst eliminating the unwanted side effects of standard, generic chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. Because this treatment aims at delivering the therapeutic radiation dose to the site of the tumour only, as well as any potential metastatic sites, if successful it can be a powerful addition to our arsenal in the fight to 'research the cure' and find a better treatment against the disease."

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