October 2009 news
Oct. 21, 2009
Sue Deutscher's lab
Recent Publication
Newton-Northup, J.R., Figueroa, S.D., Quinn, T.P., and Deutscher, S.L. (2009) Bifunctional Phage-Based Pretargeted Imaging of Human Prostate Carcinoma, Nuclear Medicine Biology, 36, 789.
Recent Grants
US Army DOD 04/01/09-01/31/12
Phage Display-Selected Galectin-3 Targeting Peptide Scaffolds for the SPECT and PET Radioimaging of Breast Cancer, Deutscher (PI)
$562,000/3 years total
NIH/NCI 03/01/09-02/30/11
Improved Peptide-based Tumor Targeting Imaging Agents Using Phage Display, Deutscher (PI)
$433,000/2 years
DOE 09/30/09-08/31/11
Radiolabeled Peptide Scaffolds for PET/SPECT-Optical Imaging of Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions, Deutscher (PI)
$599,000/2 years
SBIR from NCI with AlphaMed Inc.
Alpha Particle-emitting ErbB-2 Tumor-targeting Peptides, Deutscher (PI)
The goal is to label ErbB-2 targeting peptide with 203Pb and determine its biodistribution properties in breast tumor-bearing mice.
$30,000 direct/6 months
Dennis Lubahn's lab
The Lubahn lab would like to congratulate Anna Slusarz on her successful defense of her dissertation entitled "Targeting Estrogen- and Hedgehog-Signaling Pathways in Prostate Cancer" on September 14th.