Multifunctional intelligent polymers and polymer-inorganic hybrid materials for biomedical applications

用于生物医学应用的多功能智能聚合物和聚合物-无机杂化材料

• 批准号: 170460-2013
• 负责人: Wu, XiaoYu
• 金额: $ 2.55万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=593574
• 关键词: Multifunctional; intelligent; polymers; polymer; inorganic

Dr. Wu and coworkers have been developing "smart" multifunctional materials for biomedical applications such as self-regulated insulin release and cancer imaging. In this project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Dr. Wu will design new polymeric and polymer-inorganic hybrid materials using renewable natural materials that widely exist in Canadian agriculture-food products and other biocompatible materials to make them suited for future medical and pharmaceutical uses. Dr. Wu's research will enable more precise disease detection and effective treatment, for example, "seek and destroy" cancer cells, and treatment of other diseases by delivering drugs on demand.

吴博士及其同事一直在开发用于生物医学应用的“智能”多功能材料，如自我调节胰岛素释放和癌症成像。在这个由加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会资助的项目中，吴博士将利用加拿大农业食品中广泛存在的可再生天然材料和其他生物相容性材料设计新的聚合物和聚合物-无机杂化材料，使其适合未来的医疗和制药用途。吴博士的研究将使更精确的疾病检测和有效的治疗成为可能，例如，“寻找并摧毁”癌细胞，并通过按需提供药物来治疗其他疾病。