The study will test spider venom molecules against brain tissue made from the blood of individual epilepsy patients.
Kindie Kastrissios keeps a bag packed at her front door ready for the next emergency visit to hospital with daughter Scarlett.
Ms Kastrissios has welcomed the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund giving $4.1 million to University of Queensland researchers to test spider venom proteins as potential epilepsy drugs.Venom researcher Glenn King of UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience said the four-year study would test spider venom molecules against brain tissue made from the blood of individual epilepsy patients.
"What I'm excited about in this project is that a spider venom peptide we will be testing is very specific for this one single protein," Dr Pars said. "We're trying to develop personalised medications that we know will work for particular groups of epilepsy patients." University of Sydney medicinal chemist Michael Kassiou, who is not involved in the venom research, described drug discovery using organoids as an exciting emerging area in science.
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