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RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER and REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
seeking cancer triggers
A major grant under the Sir Henry Wellcome Commemorative Award scheme funded important cancer research. This is only the second time such a grant has been awarded to scientists in Northern Ireland.
The Cancer and Ageing Research Group has been investigating how
signalling systems within individual cells works. Professor Stephen Downes,
Head of the group says:
“We know that when the signalling system inside cells which controls
cell growth goes wrong it causes cancer. The problem is that we only
partly understand how those internal signalling systems work.
“This grant has enabled us to search for a new mechanism which controls cell growth. If we can discover such a mechanism, we will be able to find out if it goes wrong in the case of cancer. If we can find out what goes wrong, then we can hope to find out how to put it right”.
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clinical
trials
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cancer
drug
The revolutionary tumour-busting drug cancer drug AQ4N is the result of ten years of work by Professor Stephanie McKeown of the University Radiation Science Research team. It went into clinical trials in England this year.
Speaking of the drug’s properties, Professor McKeown said: “We are confident that AQ4N will enhance the effectiveness of contemporary anti-cancer treatments, as it can reach and destroy hypoxic tumour cells that are resistant to radiation and existing chemotherapy techniques.”
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