{"id":4785,"date":"2026-04-30T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:23:09","slug":"targeted-drug-molecules-find-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/targeted-drug-molecules-find-the-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeted drug molecules find the disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"n4sEPd\">\n<p class=\"QFw9Te BLojaf text-lead\"><span class=\"jCAhz JpY6Fd\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Imagine a drug molecule that goes directly to the diseased cell, instead of spreading throughout the body.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">More <\/span><\/span><span class=\"jCAhz\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">and more research is now focusing on just that, on so-called targeting drug molecules.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">It can, for example, bind to cancer cells and irradiate them, but can also be used in diseases such as Parkinson&#8217;s and Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">How does the technology work, how close are the breakthroughs and what could it mean for the future of healthcare?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"FFpbKc\">\n<div class=\"xMmqsf\">\n<div class=\"nidPne\">\n<div data-show-delay-ms=\"250\" data-append-to-body=\"true\" data-propagate-tooltip-mouseover-events=\"true\" data-anchor-corner=\"bottom-left\" data-enable-skip-handler=\"true\" data-popup-corner=\"top-left\">\n<div class=\"dig2sb\">\n<div class=\"scLCMd\">\n<p class=\"text-lead\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>Gusets:<\/strong> Marika Nestor, professor of biomedical radiation science at Uppsala University, and Peter Nilsson, professor of organic chemistry at Link\u00f6ping University.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lead\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>Program leader:<\/strong> Sofie Pehrsson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the podcast where ever podcasts are, or here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/78JaMLH2Ky2VfnrA0aau8f?si=d16925d3b4794da8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/se\/podcast\/om-vetenskap\/id1559361426?i=1000764637627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>iTunes\/podcaster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podplay.com\/sv-se\/podcasts\/om-vetenskap-1116547\/episodes\/malsokande-lakemedelsmolekyler-789728002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Podplay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a drug molecule that goes directly to the diseased cell, instead of spreading throughout the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}