Molecular Trojan horses for blood-brain barrier drug delivery

Abstract

Molecular Trojan horses are genetically engineered proteins that cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) via endogenous receptor-mediated transport processes. Molecular Trojan horses provide a brain drug targeting technology that allows for the non-invasive delivery of large molecule therapeutics to the human brain. The development of BBB drug targeting technology is an arcane area of discovery medicine that suffers from chronic under-development.