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Targeted Delivery for Nanoparticles

Microcontainers could improve cancer treatment by carrying nanoparticles directly to tumors. By Kevin Bullis

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  • Published: 2008-04-10

Next generation of 'smart' drugs

Houston scientists find innovative ways to trick body's defenses, target tumors

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  • Published: 2008-03-17

Nanomedicine System Engineered To Enhance Therapeutic Effects of Injectable Drugs

HOUSTON—(March 2, 2008)—In an article featured on the cover of the March issue of “Nature Nanotechnology,” Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston presented a proof-of-concept study on a new multistage delivery system (MDS) for imaging and therapeutic applications. This discovery could go a long way toward making injectable drugs more effective. The study is included in the March 2 Advance Online Publication on “Nature Nanotechnology’s”.

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  • Published: 2008-03-03

Mathematical engines of nanomedicine

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The process of bringing a major new drug to market, from discovery to marketing, takes about 10-12 years and costs an average of $500-$800 million in industrialized countries.

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  • Published: 2008-02-27

Success Story: Light Bulbs Turn On

Projects from the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences are touching the lives of people in the community, as well as the lives of patients.

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  • Published: 2007-12-17

Nano pioneer Ferrari test-launching multi-stage drug delivery system

HOUSTON—(Dec. 17, 2007)—Nanomedicine pioneer Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., and colleagues at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have developed a new way to get intravenous agents for cancer and other diseases to the parts of the body where they’re needed most and to reduce the amount that goes to others areas where unintended injury can occur.

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  • Published: 2007-12-17

Sematech plant poised to be a nanotechnology player

Renowned researcher's startup using lab's advanced chip-development capabilities to create a microdrug delivery system.

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  • Published: 2007-12-10

Biotech Aims High in the Lone Star State

If big is the word that best describes Texas, the same word would also describe its rapidly growing biotech sector, and nowhere in Texas is biotech bigger than in Houston. Texas is a leader in biomedical research spending, and Houston accounts for 67% of those research dollars. In 2003, Houston’s public life science companies had over $2.6 billion in market capitalization.

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  • Published: 2007-12-05

Cancer nanotechnology: small, but heading for the big time

With cancer at the forefront of therapeutic applications of nanotechnology, Dan Jones investigates progress in the field.

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  • Published: 2007-11-26

Ferrari Addresses President’s Council on Bioethics

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., director of the Research Center for NanoMedicine at The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM), a part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, discussed nanotechnology and nanomedicine before a meeting of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

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  • Published: 2007-08-27

NanoEthics: The Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology

Think of the smallest thing you can imagine: the thin edge of a piece of paper, the width of a human hair, or, if you've ever used a microscope, the diameter of a red blood cell. A new area of scientific research deals with understanding and controlling materials thousands of times smaller than these things. It is called nanotechnology.

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  • Published: 2007-07-19

Nanotechnology, medicine and bioethics

(Nanowerk News) One of today’s hottest areas of scientific research is nanomedicine. Scientists currently are working to create novel nanostructures that can serve as new kinds of drugs for treating cancer, Parkinson’s, and cardiovascular disease. They also are seeking ways to engineer nanomaterials for use as artificial tissues that could replace diseased kidneys and livers, and even repair nerve damage.

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  • Published: 2007-06-25

New Imaging Research Facility Dedicated to Detection of Early Stage Disease

Ground was broken April 10 at The University of Texas Research Park in Houston for a joint research facility dedicated to developing novel agents and imaging technologies that detect heart disease, cancer and other illnesses at their earliest – and most treatable or preventable – stages.

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  • Published: 2007-06-06

UT Health Science Center at Houston, UT M.D. Anderson Break Ground on New Imaging Research Facility

HOUSTON—(April 10, 2007)—Ground was broken today at The University of Texas Research Park for a joint research facility dedicated to developing novel agents and imaging technologies that detect heart disease, cancer and other illnesses at their earliest – and most treatable or preventable – stages.

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  • Published: 2007-04-10