Research interests Our tea. ‘Nanobug Oncology Sheffield’ (@Nanobug_Shef) focuses on developing state-of-the-art methods to target anticancer therapies to tumours. For example, we have devised a way to use macrophages as ‘trojans’ to deliver large quantities of cancer-killing virus to both primary and secondary tumours simultaneously (click here). We are currently developing innovative nanomedicine platforms to improve the targeting of drugs to tumours so that healthy tissue remains unharmed. We have used these platforms to protect and deliver oncolytic viruses via the bloodstream so that advanced metastatic cancers can be treated. These include liposomes, nanohydrogels, silk fibroin, extracellular vesicles, and magnetic nanoparticles. For the latter, we recently demonstrated that iron particles purified from magnetotactic bacteria were able to shield viruses and guide them to tumours in models of breast cancer.