SFI Frontiers for Partnership Awards
Prof James Curtin received one of the 15 SFI Frontiers for Partnership Awards announced by Minister Simon Harris this week. Alongside the co-PI Professor Paula Bourke, and collaborators Professor John Stephens, Dr Gemma Kinsella and Dr Daniela Boehm the group will develop prodrugs that can be activated from within a tumour using local treatment with Cold Atmospheric Plasma. In doing so, they aim to use Cold Plasma as a technological therapy, allowing local control of therapeutic activation and therefore minimising side effects associated with cancer treatment.