A Biomimetic Prodrug Platform To Enable Oral Bioavailability And Target Lymphatic Disease
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$408,768.00
Summary
This project will allow the advance of a unique translational technology platform that provides novel drug delivery solutions. The project aims to establish the potential for a drug delivery strategy to increase the efficacy, reduce the toxicity, and transform the impact of drug therapies for a variety of conditions, including pain, hormone dysregulation, and metabolic syndrome.
Integrating Drug Delivery Principles Into Drug Design To Transform The Treatment Of Immune Disease
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$552,635.00
Summary
Immune system disorders (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, transplant rejection, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis) are often treated with immunosuppresant drugs. However, immunosuppressant drugs can cause significant toxicity and can lack efficacy. This proposal will show how the design of drugs used to treat immune disorders can be changed to allow drugs to be delivered specifically to their site of action (immune cells) thereby enhancing activity and reducing toxicity.
Understanding The Mechanisms Of Nanomedicine Absorption From The Lungs And The Application Of This Knowledge To Improving The Delivery Of Chemotherapeutic Nanomedicines Towards Primary And Secondary Lung Cancers
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$408,388.00
Summary
The administration of chemotherapeutic 'nanomedicines' via the lungs has the capacity to improve the specific delivery of toxic anti-cancer drugs specifically towards primary and metastatic lung cancers. This project aims to evaluate how nanomedicines are absorbed from the lungs after an inhaled dose, and how they can be best developed as inhaled chemotherapeutics for the treatment of lung cancers.
Drug Targeting To Sites Of Lymph-adipose Interaction To Transform The Treatment Of Disease
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$515,172.00
Summary
Insulin resistance (IR) underpins the development of inadequately treated heart and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Recently we demonstrated that high fat diets promote increased leakage of fluid from lymph vessels to abdominal fat, and that increased access of lymph fluid to fat stimulates fat expansion and changes in fat function that promote IR. This project seeks to optimise novel drug delivery strategies that target lymph and fat and more effectively treat IR.
Optimising The Therapeutic Efficacy Of Protein-based Drugs Against Lymph-resident Diseases
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$348,330.00
Summary
Effective treatments for lymphatic diseases (such as HIV and lymph-metastatic cancers) are limited by the lack of drug assess towards the lymphatic sites of disease progression. Improving the access of drugs into lymph therefore has the significant potential to improve the treatment of these illnesses. We will therefore explore a novel approach to improving the lymphatic uptake and retention of protein-based drugs using a useful and widely used biologically compatible polymer.