Alli has developed a groundbreaking ‘bee glue’ pre-clinical, blood cancer therapy.
As an academic research faculty at the University of New Brunswick, Dr. Murugesan has been developing a nature-inspired compound known as ‘bee glue molecule’ to treat blood cancers. This promising patented compound developed by her in collaboration with Dr. Touiabia (UdeM) and Dr. Reiman (UNB), as well as UNB, DMNB, and MtA students, has the function to kill blood cancer cells more efficiently than the current chemotherapy drugs being used.
With a PhD in biotechnology and two postdoctoral fellowships in neuroscience and oncology, Dr. Murugesan is an expert in identifying, isolating, characterizing, and evaluating proteins and organic molecules from plants and natural products. Her research focuses on developing these into novel therapeutics against cancer and its associated bone diseases, with a particular emphasis on myeloma and lymphoma. She is a serial inventor and her work has been recognized nationally with the prestigious 2018 Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award.
Alli is also the founder of BioHuntress Therapeutics Inc. which helps academic researchers take their findings to market much more quickly by identifying ideas that can be commercialized. She believes the true value of research is when that collective hard work translates into a drug or product that can benefit society.
