SB Scholar Wins D.O.E. Prize for Homing Peptides (Daily Nexus)

Erkki Ruoslahti, a distinguished professor at UCSB’s Burnham Institute for Medical Research, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the Dept. of Defense to research the use of nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery in the fight against breast cancer.
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 8:50 pm and is filed under Technology.