Journal of Molecular Imaging & Dynamics
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Daniel Y. Lee

Biography

In an effort to devise schemes to site-specifically deliver drugs “on demand” we have leveraged the inducible expression properties of the well-characterized class of stress-response factors, the heat shock proteins. We asked whether a small molecule ligand selective for such proteins could be used as a potential theranostic platform. By conjugating a fluorescent dye to a recently identified nucleoside analog with modest affinity for heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), we have found that cellular uptake can be enhanced following transient heat shock in vitro

Research Interest

Dr. Daniel Y. Lee research interest includes Heat shock proteins, Targeted drug delivery, Molecular targeting.

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