Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata
Project Overview
The proposal aimed to utilise combination therapy by means of exploiting the synergistic effect of cellular transporters as well as co-administration of two or more therapeutic agents (pro-drug-free drug, free drug-free drug, etc.) with a different mechanism of function for treating cancer. The developed self-assembled structures can serve as a functional table scaffold for augmented loading of chemotherapeutic agents while conjugation with highly fluorescent and photostable Carbon Dots (CDs) that may enable real-time tracking and locating of the drug-loaded conjugates as well as serve as a useful tool for pro-drug activation.