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
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacydrug discovery
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomolecules
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsmutation
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologyparkinson
Call for proposal
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171 77 STOCKHOLM
Sweden