Professor Invents Drug to Non-Invasively Diagnose Infectious Diseases
A professor
at The University of New Mexico has developed a new, groundbreaking drug that
that could revolutionize the diagnosis of infectious diseases.
Dr. Jeffrey
P. Norenberg, a professor and director of the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences
Program at UNM’s College of Pharmacy, has invented a non-invasive way to detect
infectious diseases.
“This drug
may aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of many diseases in which inflammation
plays an important role, such as heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease,
lymphoma and leukemia and appendicitis,” said Norenberg. “That is what we can
measure with these tools.”
The method
of non-invasive molecular imaging involves injecting a patient with a drug
which binds to receptors only found on the surface of patients’ white blood
cells. A radioisotope is used with the drug to allow nuclear medicine imaging
so that doctors are able to diagnose the infection, view its extent, or monitor
treatment of the infection within the patient.
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Source: University of New Mexico