Source: Christer Aakeroy, 785-532-6096, aakeroy@k-state.edu;
and Chloe Callahan, chloec@k-state.edu
Photo available. Download at http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/may11/505callahan.jpg
News release prepared by: Kayela Richard, 785-532-2535, media@k-state.edu

Thursday, May 5, 2011

FAMILY INSPIRES WICHITA STUDENT'S 1xbet sports betting FOR MORE CANCER-FIGHTING DRUGS

MANHATTAN -- Chloe Callahan has lost family members and a friend to cancer. The Kansas State University sophomore doesn't want to lose more, so she's taking on the disease in the laboratory.

&1xbet sports betting ;Cancer has been a really big deal in my life and it may be something that me or my brother face. I wanted to get involved,&1xbet sports betting ; said Callahan, who's lost two grandparents and a high school friend to the disease. Her father is a cancer survivor.

Callahan, a chemistry major from Wichita, came to K-State wanting to do medical 1xbet sports betting and is already accomplishing her goal. She's doing independent 1xbet sports betting in supramolecular chemistry. She studies a mixture of molecules that look similar to several types of active anticancer drugs. She has pinpointed why and how certain molecules identify and communicate with other molecular partners.

&1xbet sports betting ;Chloe combines molecules with suitable molecular partners that are intended to change important physical properties such as solubility and shelf life,&1xbet sports betting ; said Christer Aakeroy, K-State professor of chemistry. &1xbet sports betting ;This is a critical challenge in the whole process of making drugs with controllable and tunable behavior.&1xbet sports betting ;

One of the biggest issues with new drug compounds is that they're often not soluble in the body, so they can't be used, Callahan said.

&1xbet sports betting ;Someone may have come up with a really awesome antitumor compound but it's not suitable for humans because you would be taking a pill the size of a baseball,&1xbet sports betting ; she said. &1xbet sports betting ;By using supramolecular chemistry, I can affect the antitumor compound without changing the molecules so it will not affect the medicinal properties.&1xbet sports betting ;

Aakeroy said this 1xbet sports betting could ideally lead to future developments in medicine and it could drastically increase the number of new, effective drugs available.

&1xbet sports betting ;Currently about one out of 10,000 compounds prepared by the drug industry makes it from the laboratory to the patient,&1xbet sports betting ; he said. &1xbet sports betting ;We hope to develop methodologies that can improve these odds substantially. It's critical that we continue to perform first-class research that can inform or positively impact people's lives far beyond this campus.&1xbet sports betting ;

Callahan recently received an undergraduate cancer 1xbet sports betting award from K-State's Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer 1xbet sports betting . She encourages other students who want to do 1xbet sports betting to get involved.

&1xbet sports betting ;Don't be intimidated to try and join a research team,&1xbet sports betting ; she said. &1xbet sports betting ;If you know that you're interested and willing to work, there's someone that you can work with at K-State.&1xbet sports betting ;

She said she sees further 1xbet sports betting in her future and would like to make a big impact with it.

&1xbet sports betting ;If anything comes out of the research we do, it would be really cool to have K-State on the map as one of the pioneers in the field,&1xbet sports betting ; Callahan said. &1xbet sports betting ;Some things you just can't learn unless you do them.&1xbet sports betting ;

Callahan is the daughter of Brian and Rebecca Callahan, Wichita, and a graduate of Goddard High School.