A research group led by Associate Professor Hitoshi Kasai of Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University in cooperation with a group led by Assistant Professor Tatsuya Murakami of Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University (WPI-iCeMS), has synthesized some water-insoluble dimerized compounds of SN-38, a strong anti-cancer agent. And, by applying these compounds to our original nanonization technology of the reprecipitation method, the anti-carcinogenic PND of approximately 50 nm with no carrier could be successfully obtained.

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Associate Professor Hitoshi Kasai

Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University

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