The African University of Science and Technology (AUST) has discovered a new drug and method for the treatment of cancer, its President and Provost, Professor Wole Soboyejo, said in Abuja.
Soboyejo said the feat was achieved in the course of the ongoing research into cancer treatment, adding the the research was already showing reasonable conclusions of a nanotechnology-based cancer treatment.
The drug development, he said, is a collaboration between the university, Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SHETSCO) and Princeton University in the United States with funding from World Bank STEP-B Projects and that Abuja is now the operational centre for the research. Work had started on it at Princeton in the USA.
He said that the treatment would utilise nanoparticles, which could be injected into the body through the blood vessels to the capillaries and then attach itself to the cancer cells. It would also utilise Biological Micro-electromechanical Systems (Bio-MEMS) and used for detecting and treating cancer.
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