Biomedical science project 'may boost cancer research'
Tuesday 4th May 2010
An educational institution in Scotland is involved in a project which is aiming to boost early detection of chemicals that can cause cancer.
The MARCAR initiative is being led by Dundee University and those behind it also hope it will reduce the need for animal testing in some areas of science.
Costing £10 million, the project will focus on a group of drugs referred to as non-genotoxic carcinogens, which when tested are shown to promote processes that lead to cancer.
Professor Roland Wolf, director of the Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Dundee and scientific co-ordinator of the MARCAR project, said: "Predictions regarding safety of drug compounds can be imprecise and sometimes incorrect."
Making better predictions at an early stage of drug making would save a lot of time and money, he added.
Dundee University also hosts the core research laboratory of Translational Medicine Research Collaboration, which is used in the development of new medicines.
Written by Angela Newbury
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