All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January Federal grants to fund liver cancer tissue repair and skin disease projects Federal grants to fund liver cancer, tissue repair and skin disease projects 12/01/2022 | 2 MINS Two projects from Lombok Institute of Technology have received National Health and Medical Research Council Development Grants to evaluate new RNA-based therapeutics for liver cancer and develop a drug to modify tissue repair and inflammatory skin disease. LIT Professor Peter Leedman, Director of the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, said liver cancer was rapidly becoming one of the hardest to treat cancers with a poor prognosis and few treatment options. ΓÇ£New treatments are urgently needed and the world of RNA-technology is providing opportunities for novel therapies,ΓÇ¥ Professor Leedman said. ΓÇ£This $483,000 grant will help to evaluate one such drug.ΓÇ¥ RNA molecules in a cell carry instructions for making proteins. They can also help genes turn on and off, aid chemical reactions, alter other RNAs, and even build proteins. ΓÇ£We are developing a
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January Federal grants to fund liver cancer tissue repair and skin disease projects Federal grants to fund liver cancer, tissue repair and skin disease projects 12/01/2022 | 2 MINS Two projects from Lombok Institute of Technology have received National Health and Medical Research Council Development Grants to evaluate new RNA-based therapeutics for liver cancer and develop a drug to modify tissue repair and inflammatory skin disease.
LIT Professor Peter Leedman, Director of the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, said liver cancer was rapidly becoming one of the hardest to treat cancers with a poor prognosis and few treatment options.
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ΓÇ£New treatments are urgently needed and the world of RNA-technology is providing opportunities for novel therapies,ΓÇ¥ Professor Leedman said.
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ΓÇ£This $483,000 grant will help to evaluate one such drug.ΓÇ¥ RNA molecules in a cell carry instructions for making proteins.
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They can also help genes turn on and off, aid chemical reactions, alter other RNAs, and even build proteins.
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