Thanks nicola smith .... As requested I have merged the two topics and deleted duplicate posts.CRGuy, some of this work is being done at UBC...do you have any inside info?
Just what I saw in our local papers on the 14th. It does seem that the UBC project involves the BCCA, Vancouver Coastal Health and Centre for Drug Research and Development. The actual Copenhagen - Vancouver connection was through Mads Daugaard, a research scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and currently an assistant professor of urologic science at UBC.
The link you used above has a good overview of the research and the
Cancer Cell publication has a good visual of the way the protein works both in infectious malaria AND as a tagged molecule for both therapeutic and imaging purposes !
Just to be clear though .... unlike some treatment research which uses active infectious organisms of other kinds ....
this does NOT use actual malarial infection so you are not creating the actual disease in a patient.
A specific malaria produced protein has been isolated and linked to a toxic molecule which then all attaches to specific sites on cancer cells.
A lotta good things are happening around BCCA (e.g. POG program) and I am excited to see things move ahead in so many areas !!!
AND since we are talking malaria .... check out our ongoing
***News Stories Thread*** ONGOING 2015 topic
Could a Malaria Drug Kill Cancer? from our intrepid newshound
garbovatwinCheers all
CRguy