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Apr 29, 2021

Brudno receives $2.8 million from NCI to fund CAR-T advancements

Yevgeny Brudno, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Chemistry of Life Program and Functional Tissue Engineering Group within the Comparative Medicine Institute has received a 7-year, $2.8 million R37 grant from NCI entitled “Biomaterial Scaffolds for Ex-Vivo and In-Situ CAR-T Cell Production”. CAR-T cell therapy drafts a patient’s own cells to target and kill tumors. This therapy combines… 

Apr 21, 2021

New Macrolactone Database Could Aid Drug Discovery, Research

By Tracey Peake Researchers from North Carolina State University and Collaborations Pharmaceuticals have created a free-to-use database of 14,000 known macrolactones – large molecules used in drug development – which contains information about the molecular characteristics, chemical diversity and biological activities of this structural class. The database, called MacrolactoneDB, fills a knowledge gap concerning these molecules…