Objective
The aim of this project is to generate a comprehensive platform of intellectual property to facilitate the discovery and development of a new generation of therapeutics with the ability to activate or inhibit the c-Ret receptor tyrosine kinase. Mutations in c-Ret are directly implicated in human cancers, and the c-Ret ligand, GDNF, is being developed as a therapeutic agent for neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease and ALS. To develop c-Ret as a target for drug discovery we propose: i) to validate c-Ret as a drug target; ii) to develop scaleable assays for high throughput screening of c-Ret inhibitors and activators; iii) to isolate artificial c-Ret peptide ligands; iv) to determine the 3D structures of the extracellular and kinase domains of wild type and oncogenic c-Ret; v) to identify ligand binding sites in the c-Ret extracellular domain. Our long-term goal is to enter into license agreements with interested user groups for the exploitation of the generated knowledge and technology platform.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug discovery
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics mutation
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology parkinson
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Coordinator
171 77 STOCKHOLM
Sweden
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