NTeMBI Projects
NTeMBI focuses on the implementation of projects related to human health including:
- Development and assessment of metal containing drugs for cancer treatment using radiolabelling;
- Imaging and therapy for cancer and other diseases using radioisotopes of rhenium and technetium compounds linked to biologically active molecules;
- Imaging as a tool in the development of drug delivery systems and new drugs –especially for tuberculosis;
- Imaging as a tool in developing new diagnostics and drugs for infection – especially for tuberculosis;
- Imaging brain receptors using radiolabelled compounds;
The use of radiolabelled receptor site targeting compounds for early detection and therapy of cancer;
- Assessment of natural products for disease prevention and therapy using labelling;
- Imaging biomarkers using radiolabels;
- Assessing the Sterile Insect Technique for malaria mosquitoes in a South African setting;
- Radiosensitivity in breast cancer
Photos made available from the Vector Control Reference Unit of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.