By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times
During a recent meeting of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) Vasily Chekhun, director of the R.E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology, made a report on the state and prospects for the application of nanotechnologies in biology and medicine. Representatives of institutes of the NASU and the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine took part in a discussion of the report.
In recent years Ukrainian scientists have achieved the striking results of a fundamental and applied character, which are aimed to create new nanomaterials and develop targeted vector systems for biology and medicine. In particular, the researchers obtained nanoparticles with controlled optical and magnetic properties as well as developed systems of the targeted delivery of drug preparations to malignant tumors.
Among their successes is the novel antitumor drug Ferroplat that contains nanoparticles of magnetic liquid and cis-platin. Ferroplat has pharmacological advantages over the free form of a cytostatic.
In addition, the Ukrainian scientists developed computer software to estimate the efficacy of a magnetic field: the programs enable simulation of the delivery of magnetic nanocomposites to tumors.
However, it is necessary to bring the above advanced developments to a logical conclusion, or their application in actual practice.
As far as the follow-up of the report is concerned, the NASU Presidium has approved the draft resolution, which underlines a need to determine the most worthwhile trends of research forming the basis of innovation technologies in biology and medicine.
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