UNLV biochemist Chandra Bhattacharya is unlocking clues for treatment of cancer and other diseases; answer may lie in mRNA.

There’s detective work going on inside of one of UNLV’s science labs: Medicinal chemist Chandra Bhattacharya is busy cracking the code for cancer therapy. The answer, she believes, lies in messenger RNA (mRNA). 

The science term likely sounds familiar for most, remembering back to the COVID pandemic and the race to develop the first mRNA vaccine to combat COVID. Using mRNA in this way wasn’t new, but the COVID pandemic helped to make it more mainstream which has allowed for a heightened research focus on how this technology can be used to treat other diseases.

For Bhattacharya, it helped to spark a years-long pursuit – first at MIT and now at UNLV – researching new immunotherapy delivery systems to battle cancer and other diseases like diabetes.

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