CIIC researchers discover potential breakthrough in the fight against drug-resistant melanoma

CIIC researchers Associate Professor Sónia Troeira Henriques and Dr Aurelie Benfield  from the Peptide Therapeutics and Membrane Biology Research Group located at the Translational Research Institute (TRI) have discovered a potential breakthrough in the fight against drug-resistant melanoma.
Their work reveals how peptides derived from a tarantula and horseshoe crab can kill melanoma cells—including resistant and dormant ones—without the cancer developing resistance. The pre-clinical study, published in the prominent journal Pharmacological Research, found that the two very similar peptides not only killed resistant melanoma cells, but the cancer was incapable of developing resistance to the peptides. Read full story