{"id":23,"date":"2020-05-04T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:42:56","slug":"front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transporter-mediated Targeted Drug Delivery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our mission is to <strong>improving drug delivery to their target sites <\/strong>by utilizing membrane transporters selectively expressed in different tissues, cells, and cell organelles. This is expected <strong>to improve drug efficacy<\/strong> <strong>and diminish simultaneously the off-target effects<\/strong>. Simultaneously, we want to <strong>increase the knowledge of different transport mechanisms <\/strong>that small molecular-weight compounds use and d<strong>evelop novel tools to study these mechanisms<\/strong>. However, we are curious to apply our know-how also to larger biomolecules, such as peptides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/08\/TTDD1-1024x570.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1035\" style=\"width:289px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/08\/TTDD1-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/08\/TTDD1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/08\/TTDD1-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/drug-targeting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/08\/TTDD1.png 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In our research group we focus on the journey of lifelong learning, although the 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