Active scaffold for on-demand drug and cell delivery

• Main Author: Ng, Candy Ting Ting.
• Other Authors: Raju Vijayaraghavan Ramanujan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48437
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and side effects on cancer patients from conventional cancer treatment therapy are inevitable. Polymer coated magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) are attractive drug carriers for targeting specific tumors with minimal systemic distribution of the anti-cancer dru...