Bose Institute carrying out research on how to stop growth of

The Bose Institute is carrying out research work in its laboratory here to find out how cancer cells multiply and to stop the growth of cancer cells, its director prof Uday Bandyopadhyay said on Saturday.

The Bose Institute was set up in 1917 by Sir J C Bose, the founder of modern science in the Indian subcontinent. It is Asia's first modern research centre devoted to inter- disciplinary research and bears a century-old tradition of research excellence.

Bandyopadhyay told reporters on the sidelines of the foundation day programme here, that the institute believes in trasferring the fruits of basic and fundamental research to the common people.

"Our motto is to bring out research from the confines of laboratory in public domain, so that it can be of help to the public. One of the important research works, being carried in our laboratory here, is to find out how cancer cells multiply and to stop the growth of cancer cells," Bandyopadhyay said.

He said once the molecules which can stop the growth of cancer cells can be identified by trials in hospitals, the next phase will be producing drugs.

If the institute gets the patent there could be greater avenues in medicinal chemistry, he said.

However, to a question, Bandyopadhyay said it will be too premature to specify when the medicines with the cancer prevention molecule can be produced as research is a long- drawn process. "We have already got a faint impression of (the cancer-preventive nature) of certain molecules."
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