Two University of Dayton researchers were awarded nearly $500,000 to explore strategies for the detection and potential treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.
The National Institutes of Health awarded the grant to Shawn Swavey, professor of chemistry, and Kristen Krupa, chair of UD’s department of chemical and materials engineering, to fund their project.
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The project will focus on developing fluorescent imaging tools to better understand how stress inside cancer cells can be used to detect and potentially destroy tumors, according to a press release.
The researchers aim to create probes that can monitor cancer cell activity and deliver therapies directly where they may be most effective by targeting a part of the cell called the endoplasmic reticulum…