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New strategies for the treatment of cancer by targeting conformational variants of the tumor suppressor p53

Objective

Cancer is still one of the great killers in the European Community despite significant improvements in treatment regimens. Thus, development of novel strategies for treatment ill still a major challenge for biomedical science. One of the dye problems in tackling cancer is that treatments kill both normal and cancer cells. Thus, the goal is to develop therapies that are selective for cancer cells. The gene encoding the p53 tumour suppressor is mutated in more than 50 % of all human cancers, which makes it possibly the most attractive target for cancer therapies. This study is designed to characterise differences between normal and altered forms of p53 that allow a rational design of targeted manipulation of p53 function by chemical agents or peptides. The ultimate goal of this proposal is to develop therapeutic compounds that would allow one to selectively attack tumour cells that express mutant p53 proteins.

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UNIVERSITY OF LUEBECK
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160,Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 LUEBECK
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