NIH awards URI pharmacy professor $1.3M grant to fight cancer with nanoparticles

摘要

KINGSTON — The National Institutes of Health have awarded a University of Rhode Island phar macy professor a $1.3 million grant to further study a new class of inorganic nanoparticles that target primary cancer, and help con- trol the disease's spread (metastases) and recurrence. WEI LU , assistant professor of bio- medical and pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy, has discov- ered in his preliminary research that hollow copper sulfide nanoparticles are effective in delivering chemotherapy and heat through a laser that can burn the tumor.