Publication Type : Patents
Publisher : Volume European Patent EP 2440247 B1 (2017)
Source : Volume European Patent EP 2440247 B1 (2017)
Campus : Kochi
School : Center for Nanosciences
Center : Nanosciences
Year : 2017
Abstract : The present invention relates to a photosensitizer-containing nanoparticle, comprising a photosensitizer covalently bonded throughout at least a part of said nanoparticle to the nanoparticle matrix material and incorporated therein in a quasi-aggregated state. The present invention further relates to methods for producing the invention nanoparticles, and to methods of killing cancer cells by PDT treatment using the said nanoparticles.
Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Manzoor K., Robinson, D. J., Sterenborg, H. J. C. M., Kascakova, S., and Nair, S., “Targeted nano-photomedicines for photodynamic therapy of cancer”, 2017.