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Towards the design of Personalised Polymer-based Combination Nanomedicines for Advanced Stage Breast Cancer Patients

Descripción del proyecto

Nanomedicamentos a medida contra el cáncer de mama

A menudo existe variabilidad en los resultados del tratamiento de los enfermos de cáncer. Ello se debe a diferencias en la biología subyacente del cáncer, así como a diferencias en el estado general de salud, la genética y el estilo de vida del paciente. Por lo tanto, se requiere adaptar los tratamientos a cada paciente en función de sus características únicas. El equipo del proyecto MyNano, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende diseñar combinaciones terapéuticas personalizadas a base de polímeros para pacientes con cáncer de mama. Los investigadores optimizarán el diseño de nanoconjugados para subtipos clínicos específicos, lo cual introducirá un cambio de paradigma en el diseño de nanomedicamentos para ámbitos con necesidades clínicas no cubiertas. El uso de conjugados poliméricos en el diseño de fármacos puede mejorar la eficacia terapéutica y reducir la toxicidad asociada.

Objetivo

Research on anticancer therapies has provided little progress towards improved survival rates for patients with metastatic disease. The intrinsic advantages of polymer conjugates can be optimised to rationally design targeted combination therapies, concept I pioneered that allows enhanced therapeutic efficiency. Early clinical trials involving conjugates showed activity in chemotherapy refractory patients and reduced drug-related toxicity. However, there is a growing concern on patient variability regarding tumor patho-physiology that underlie successful therapeutic outcome. Specific biomarkers are required to select those patients most likely to show good clinical response to these therapies.
The objective of MyNano is to engineer polymer-based combination therapies designed to treat metastatic breast cancer in a patient personalised manner. Therefore, novel multicomponent polymer conjugates with precise control over size, shape, solution conformation, multifunctionality and bioresponsiveness will be obtained while in parallel their structure activity relationships to underlying proposed mechanisms of action in clinically relevant models will be studied. Polyglutamates obtained by controlled polymerisation and self-assembly strategies will be the carriers. Primary breast cancer patient tissue will be used to generate cell and in vivo models representing different clinical molecular subtypes. MyNano will also investigate new combination strategies using current treatments together with inhibitors of tumor-derived exosome release pathways, phenomenon related to metastasis and resistance mechanisms.
The aim is to provide a novel methodological approach that would allow by reiterative design to optimise the design of the next generation nanoconjugates for the treatment of specific metastatic cancer clinical subtypes. MyNano will be a breakthrough as it introduces a paradigm shift in the strategy to design nanomedicines in areas of unmet clinical need.

Régimen de financiación

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Institución de acogida

FUNDACION DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION PRINCIPEFELIPE
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 724 168,97
Dirección
CALLE EDUARDO PRIMO YUFERA 3
46012 Valencia
España

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Región
Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
Tipo de actividad
Research Organisations
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 1 724 168,97

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