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Tumour-targeting platinum-based cancer drugs (gold nanoparticles)

Reference Number: 1771 Background Cancer is believed to account for 12% of deaths worldwide. This incidence is increasing in Western countries, as the average age of the population increases.The University of Strathclyde has been undertaking research into novel delivery systems for the latest drug treatments. Cisplatin, for example, is used to treat...

Published: 7/25/2011 | Inventor(s): Nial Wheate, Duncan Graham, Sarah Brown, Gemma Craig

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Lipidic vehicles as chronotherapeutic drug delivery devices

Reference Number:1724 Background The severity of many diseases such as anxiety, asthma and hypertension varies with the bodies’ internal clock. There is increasing evidence to show that these natural rhythms can also affect the bodies responsiveness to drugs and so optimal treatment of these diseases could be enhanced by delivery of the drug at the...

Published: 2/21/2014 | Inventor(s): Alexander Mullen, Howard Stevens, Sarah Eccleston

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Improvements in solubility/suspendability of drugs

Reference Number:1710 Background A major problem in the development of medicines is that ~40 - 60% of new drugs discovered are poorly water-soluble. This project exploits a recent Strathclyde invention of a novel method of increasing the solubility and / or the dispersibility of poorly water-soluble drugs and hydrophobic particles. The technology,...

Published: 2/21/2014 | Inventor(s): Gillian Eccleston, Jennifer Rouse, Anne Boyter, David Watson

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Pulmonary drug delivery using NIVs/ INHALOSOMES

Reference Number: 1720 Background There are a number of impediments to effective drug delivery. These can include erroneous absorption which reduces the concentration of the drug at the critical target site. In order to overcome this, researchers at the University of Strathclyde have pioneered a technique which delivers drugs through the use of...

Published: 3/12/2019 | Inventor(s): Katharine Carter, Alexander Mullen, Valerie Ferro

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