Code
178FW238
Duration
01 January 2008 → 28 February 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Biomarker discovery and evaluation
- Drug discovery and development
- Medicinal products
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy
- Toxicology and toxinology
- Other pharmaceutical sciences
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Engineering and technology
- Chemical product design and formulation
- Process engineering
- Polymeric materials
- Biomaterials engineering
Keywords
plasmid DNA
non-viral gene therapy
nuclear membrane
Project description
Plasmid DNA needs to reach the cell nucleus to be biologically active. We aim to explore new strategies to target naked DNA or DNA nanoparticles to the cell nuclei of daughter cells during the cell division of the mother cell, since during cell division the intracellular barrier of the nuclear membrane is temporarily broken down.