Combating glioblastoma with vitamin B3-based radiotheranostics

Description of the granted funding

Brain cancers are deadly and difficult to treat. Many complicated drugs have been tested but failed. Surprisingly, vitamin B3 has recently shown promise for treating brain cancers, but no one knows how it exactly works. Our project is to add a label on vitamin B3 to track its behavior in the body, and the labeled vitamin B3 will be used for brain cancer diagnosis and radiotherapy. Vitamin B3 is found in our daily food; our results will advise how to prevent and treat brain tumors with food or food supplements.
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Starting year

2025

End year

2029

Granted funding

Xiang-Guo Li Orcid -palvelun logo
547 416 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Academy projects

Decision maker

Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment
16.06.2025

Other information

Funding decision number

368560

Fields of science

Pharmacy

Research fields

Farmasia

Identified topics

cancer