November 2025
A Spoonful of Sugar for Medicine
Dr. Eden Tanne, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi.
Nobody likes taking their medicine — especially if you're a cancer cell! What if we could coat the medicine in sugar? Triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal sub-type of breast cancer, is tough to treat because it lacks the three traditional “markers” that can be used to deliver treatments in other subtypes. However, these cancer cells overexpress glucose transporters on their surface to enable them to take up as much sugar as possible. Can we use this to develop a new strategy to treat triple negative breast cancers? Join Dr. Eden Tanner for a Science Cafe sharing some of her team’s latest work in developing targeted nanoparticle therapies using sugar-based ionic liquid surface coatings.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Heartbreak Coffee, 265 North Lamar Blvd, Oxford
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