Prof. Maja Čemažar held lectures at foreign university in USA. At Old Dominion University she held a lecture on the use of RNA interference technology in gene therapy of cancer.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 2071675Urška Kamenšek recieved an International Medis Award for Medical Research for her scientific contribution on construction of safer plasmids for gene electro transfer in cancer gene therapy. Gene electrotransfer is becoming increasingly more recognized method for cancer gene therapy, proceeding to clinical trials. It is especially attractive for some indications: like vaccination through the systemic secretion from the transfected muscle or skin, and the utilization of the spatial precision provided by the method for tumor targeting. For the smooth translation of this method in the clinical setting, the appropriate plasmid vector design is of immense importance. In our laboratory we constructed four potentially clinically applicable antibiotic-free therapeutic plasmids for immunotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy of cancer, with interleukin 12 gene and anti-endoglin shRNA molecule under the transcriptional control of tissue specific promoters for muscle, skin and endothelium as well as a therapy inducible promoter.
E.02 International awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 2098811