A local medical company, working in coordination with Penn State, has earned a $1 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. <\/p>\n
Keystone Nano, based in the Zetachron building at 1981 Pine Hall Road in Ferguson Township, has been working on a possible new drug delivery method, using a product called NanoJackets, to treat a variety of cancers. <\/p>\n
The grant, supplied by the Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement Program, is intended to allow Keystone Nano to speed its potentially live-saving product to market, according to Thomas Hostetter, a spokesman for the state Department of Health. <\/p>\n
A goal of this initiative is commercialization of innovations derived from prior research endeavors, he wrote in an email. <\/p>\n
Six years ago, the patented NanoJacket technology was developed out of a partnership between two Penn State professors, one specializing in materials science and the other in medicine. <\/p>\n
Dr. Mark Kester is director of the Penn State Center for Nanomedicine and Materials and the co-leader for experimental therapeutics at the Hershey Cancer <\/p>\n
Institute, and professor James Adair is director of the Particulate Materials Center and a professor in the materials science and engineering department at Penn State. <\/p>\n
Adair first looked into the science that scored the grant for Keystone Nano after a heart condition nearly killed him. <\/p>\n
As a result of his condition and fortunate recovery from it, he said, I wonder if these nanomaterials can do something for health, Davidson said. <\/p>\n
Adair reached out to Kester, a friend, and the two began collaborating on what eventually turned into Nano- Jackets. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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