Skoltech researchers including Tatiana Abakumova, Olga Sergeeva and Timofei Zatsepin from CLS have published a paper “Multifunctional nanostructured drug delivery carriers for cancer therapy: multimodal imaging and ultrasound-induced drug release” in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces journal. The scientists developed hybrid particles based on biocompatible polymers containing magnetic nanoparticles, photoacoustic, fluorescent dyes, and therapeutic anticancer components (doxorubicin). These particles were verified for safety and efficiency to be used in multimodal systems for simultaneous therapy and diagnosis of neoplastic diseases. Full text of the paper is available here.