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Deciphering the radiobiology of targeted radionuclide therapy: from subcellular to intra-tumoural analyses

Project description

Characterising multilevel mechanisms of targeted radionuclide therapy

Radiotherapy of tumours has seen tremendous advances in the last several decades relative to the potentially cancer-causing and non-selective radiation of earlier years. Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT), like chemotherapy, is a systemic treatment. It relies on a cancer cell-targeting molecule labelled with a radionuclide to deliver toxic radiation directly to the tumour site. While TRTs are very promising, optimising treatments requires better understanding of their specific radiobiological effects. The EU-funded RADIOBIO project will yield critical information on subcellular and intratumoural radiopharmaceutical uptake kinetics, DNA damage response kinetics and dose response simulations while delivering a novel imaging technique to image real-time cellular processes of anti-cancer therapies in a living organism.

Coordinator

ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM
Net EU contribution
€ 1 750 000,00
Address
Dr Molewaterplein 40
3015 GD Rotterdam
Netherlands

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Region
West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Groot-Rijnmond
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00