Iranian Firm Exports Home-Made Nano Drugs with Controlled Release System
“We have designed and produced targeted nanoparticles containing anticancer drugs and microparticles with controlled release system,” said Navid Nateqian, the co-founder and a member of the board of directors of Nano Darou Pajouhan Pardis company.
"The first product that we have made is Paclitaxel Albumin Nanoparticles (Pacli-Nab) used for the treatment of cancerous tissues,” he added.
Nateqian noted that the knowledge-based product was so much successful in the market that “it was also welcomed internationally and we were able to start exporting our product from the very first year”.
In a relevant development last November, Iranian researchers at Islamic Azad University had also succeeded in synthesizing and producing a smart polymer-based nanocarrier capable of destroying cancer cells in the culture medium.
Hossein Peyman, a member of the academic faculty of Islamic Azad University’s Ilam branch, who has a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry, explained about the polymeric anti-cancer capsules.
“In this project, the goal of the research group was to make a polymeric capsule that can carry special drugs, specially anti-cancer medicine, and release them merely in the cancerous tissue,” he told ANA.
“By using this method, the anti-cancer drugs will not have a harmful and destructive effect on other tissues of the body, and their effect on the cancerous tissue will be doubled,” Peyman said.
“Of course, the research group used a super magnetic nanoparticle in the structure of the polymer carrier in a bid to increase the therapeutic effect and track the drug carrier, and in addition to the drug that is loaded inside the smart polymer capsule, it used the heat generation feature of the super magnetic nano particle in the magnetic field to make the continuous imaging of the drug possible,” he added.
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