![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920035811im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Cancer Drug Delivery Research at Case Western Reserve University Cuts Time From Days to Hours
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July 23, 2008
![Clemens Burda and student](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920035811im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/clemens_burda_l.jpg) | Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a technique that has the potential to deliver cancer-fighting drugs to diseased areas within hours, as opposed to the two days it currently takes for existing delivery systems. Full story |
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