The Need Metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes are a major health concern that have impacted hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. Current pharmaceutical therapies for type 2 diabetes have been associated with adverse reactions including weight gain and increased risk of infection, liver …

Verticillins, which are epipolythiodioxopiperazine (ETP) alkaloids, have shown promising anticancer qualities; these fungal metabolites have exhibited high potency against a variety of tumor cell types, with IC50 values typically in the 10-500 nanomolar range. However, these compounds suffer from …

Many diseases emerge from irregularities that occur during protein synthesis. While limited therapies exist to deliver mature proteins to compensate for these errors, protein therapy by direct protein delivery has limited efficiency. This is due to difficulty in controlling the volume of delivered…

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the US with approximately 150,000 deaths in 2017. Currently, mildly ineffective chemotherapeutics ripe with adverse side effects are the standard treatment. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are able to selectively modulate expression of…

One of the primary challenges in therapeutic development is cheap, efficient, and safe drug delivery to specific target tissues. To better target specific tissues, RNA nanotechnology has been progressively applied to generate predefined architectures via self-assembly of modular building blocks. N…

Since RNA interference was first described and utilized in 1998, the field has been expanding at an immense pace. Many types of therapeutics have been developed using synthetically constructed RNA interference nanotechnology, including work in the fields of cancer, immune therapy, and other human …

The Need The efficient delivery of mRNA is a key challenge for the application of mRNA therapeutics. Despite promising data from ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of cancer vaccines, the clinical use of mRNA requires the discovery and development of safer and more effective delivery systems…

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous group of tumors, which can be subdivided based on histopathological features, genetic alterations, and gene-expression profiles. Approximately 50-60% of all breast cancer patients and two-thirds of postmenopausal breast cancer patients have estrogen receptor positi…

Natural products and semi-synthetic derivatives derived from them have been used for anticancer drugs or drug leads for many years. However, side-effects such as myelosuppression and secondary leukemia have been reported. Furthermore, these natural products can be difficult to use for targeting sp…