New drugs put cancers to sleep – permanently

Updated September 5 2018 - 12:36pm, first published August 10 2018 - 2:23pm
CONFIDENT: Associate Professor Tim Thomas and Associate Professor Anne Voss from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute with Professor Jonathan Baell from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
CONFIDENT: Associate Professor Tim Thomas and Associate Professor Anne Voss from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute with Professor Jonathan Baell from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

In what they describe as exciting news, Melbourne scientists have discovered a new type of anti-cancer drug that can put cancer cells into a permanent sleep, avoiding the harmful side-effects caused by therapies like chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

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