Chemopreventive aerosols to reduce dysplasia

Profiles
People
Robert E. Sievers, Stephen P. Cape, Sai Tummala (National Jewish Health)
Year Awarded
2012
Type
IRP
Affiliation
UCB: Chemistry
Geography
CIRES

Lung cancer caused by black carbon combustion sources and smoking is one of the leading health-care issues in the world. We intend to study in test rodents whether our inhalable chemotherapeutic/preventive myo-inositol powder aerosols can solve an important unmet medical need, the reduction or elimination of precancerous lung lesions known as dysplasia.