Medical Nanorobotics

医疗纳米机器人

• 批准号: CRC-2014-00123
• 负责人: Martel, Sylvain
• 金额: $ 14.57万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=658863
• 关键词: Medical; Nanorobotics

Although most cancers are localized, toxic agents are still injected systematically. As a result, present treatments frequently fail because of severe side effects related to the fact that the drug accumulates in insufficient concentration at the tumor site while being distributed over healthy tissues and organs. This Chair aims at exploiting science and engineering including nanotechnology with principles of robotics to develop innovative platforms and techniques to navigate special drug-loaded vehicles to the area to be treated using the most direct route in order to improve tumor killing effects while minimizing toxic side effects caused by drug activity in non-targeted regions.

尽管大多数癌症都是局部性的，但有毒物质仍然是全身注射的。因此，目前的治疗方法经常失败，因为严重的副作用与药物在肿瘤部位积累不足的浓度有关，而药物分布在健康的组织和器官上。这一教席旨在利用科学和工程技术，包括纳米技术和机器人原理，开发创新的平台和技术，使用最直接的路线将装载特殊药物的车辆导航到要治疗的区域，以提高肿瘤杀灭效果，同时将非目标区域的药物活动造成的毒副作用降至最低。