DMMC
Course: TECHNIQUES & STRATEGIES IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE
1215-1300
Tuesday 11 December 2007, Panoz institute, LTEE2, TCD
Molecular therapies - false hope or the future of medicine?
Dr Ruth Foley (Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD)
Molecular medicine
has allowed the identification of new targets and new approaches to treat
human disease. The lecture will focus on some of these strategies, including
targeting signal transduction pathways, use of monoclonal antibody based approaches
and the numerous gene therapy strategies that are currently being evaluated.
An overview of the different methodologies will be presented and the current
situation on the clinical application of these approaches will be considered.
Focusing particularly on cancer therapies as a model system, the advances
and challenges of the different approaches will be presented and discussed.