DEVELOPMENT OF DNA-TEMPLATED IR QUANTUM DOTS


Year of Award:
2008
Status:
Complete
Award Type:
R21
Project Number:
CA122878
RFA Number:
RFA-CA-07-033
Technology Track:
Molecular & Cellular Analysis Technologies
PI/Project Leader:
KELLEY, SHANA O
Other PI or Project Leader:
N/A
Institution:
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Functionalized semiconductor quantum dots have previously been demonstrated to bind to markers on cells. Through their spectrally-narrow optical emissions, they illuminate tumors and other harbingers of disease. They are enabling the highly specific detec