A local medical company, working in coordination with Penn State, has earned a $1 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Keystone Nano, based in the Zetachron building at 1981 Pine Hall Road in Ferguson Township, has been working on a possible new drug delivery method, using a product called NanoJackets, to treat a variety of cancers.
The grant, supplied by the Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement Program, is intended to allow Keystone Nano to speed its potentially live-saving product to market, according to Thomas Hostetter, a spokesman for the state Department of Health.
A goal of this initiative is commercialization of innovations derived from prior research endeavors, he wrote in an email.
Six years ago, the patented NanoJacket technology was developed out of a partnership between two Penn State professors, one specializing in materials science and the other in medicine.
Dr. Mark Kester is director of the Penn State Center for Nanomedicine and Materials and the co-leader for experimental therapeutics at the Hershey Cancer
Institute, and professor James Adair is director of the Particulate Materials Center and a professor in the materials science and engineering department at Penn State.
Adair first looked into the science that scored the grant for Keystone Nano after a heart condition nearly killed him.
As a result of his condition and fortunate recovery from it, he said, I wonder if these nanomaterials can do something for health, Davidson said.
Adair reached out to Kester, a friend, and the two began collaborating on what eventually turned into Nano- Jackets.
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