This campaign highlights examples of innovative multidisciplinary research and fundamental science that lead to the discovery and translation of new medicines and treatments into clinical practice, helping to address major health challenges within society today.
Scientists' new drug-delivery technology is possible breakthrough for multi-strain vaccines
A new way to deliver drugs using a common protein could be used to develop mosaic vaccines, vaccines effective against multiple strains of a virus like Covid-19, among other medicines in a global first.
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Fighting Cancer with SMARTdrugs
King’s College London researchers are part of an international team working to develop SMARTdrugs, a radiotheranostic platform specifically designed for the diagnosis and treatment of aggressive cancers such as lung and brain tumours.
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King's biotech spinout Pheon Therapeutics Raises $120m to develop novel anticancer agents
The investment raised at the close of its Series B funding round will enable Pheon Therapeutics (Pheon) to take three new Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs), used to treat cancer, through clinical trials.
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Scientists create tailored drug for aggressive breast cancer
Scientists have used breast cancer cells’ weakness against themselves by linking a tumour-selective antibody with a cell-killing drug to destroy hard-to-treat tumours.
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Cows' milk particles used for effective oral delivery of drugs
New research has found that tiny particles present in cows’ milk could offer, for the first time, an effective method for the oral delivery of RNA drugs.
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