PHOTOCYLINDER | Photodynamic therapy enabled DNA-fork-binding metallo-cylinders: drugs and release triggers

Summary
This proposal will bring to Birmingham a highly promising early career researcher originally from India and now in Grenoble, to undertake an exciting project at the interface of chemistry, nanoscience and biology. The fellowship will develop the fellow to a position where he will be ready to secure an academic position to launch his own independendent research career in Bioinorganic Chemistry, supported by and further developing the European links and collaborations he will have formed. Alongside the research training in techniques and approaches and transferable skills training the fellow will gain, he will transfer to Birmingham his expertise in agents for photodynamic therapy, enhancing the capabilities of the Birmingham teams. The overarching research aims of this work are to develop for the first time DNA-fork-binding metallocylinders with a PDT capability and to use these not only as direct PDT agents but also as triggers to release therapeutic drugs from DNA nanostructures.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/844145
Start date: 08-07-2019
End date: 02-09-2021
Total budget - Public funding: 224 933,76 Euro - 224 933,00 Euro
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This proposal will bring to Birmingham a highly promising early career researcher originally from India and now in Grenoble, to undertake an exciting project at the interface of chemistry, nanoscience and biology. The fellowship will develop the fellow to a position where he will be ready to secure an academic position to launch his own independendent research career in Bioinorganic Chemistry, supported by and further developing the European links and collaborations he will have formed. Alongside the research training in techniques and approaches and transferable skills training the fellow will gain, he will transfer to Birmingham his expertise in agents for photodynamic therapy, enhancing the capabilities of the Birmingham teams. The overarching research aims of this work are to develop for the first time DNA-fork-binding metallocylinders with a PDT capability and to use these not only as direct PDT agents but also as triggers to release therapeutic drugs from DNA nanostructures.

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CLOSED

Call topic

MSCA-IF-2018

Update Date

28-04-2024
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.1. EXCELLENT SCIENCE
H2020-EU.1.3. EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
H2020-EU.1.3.2. Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
MSCA-IF-2018