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Need advice. Biomimetics to treat cancer
I would like some advice/suggestions on a project I'm working on for my introduction to biology class. I'm supposed to use biomimetics to come up for a treatment for cancer. My idea consists on using biomimetic peptides to link them to the HLA class I molecules found in cells to be recognized by T cells. Then I would use modified T cells to target specifically the HLA molecules linked to the biomimetic peptides in order to kill the tumor cells.
It's still a work in progress but I would like to know if it sounds feasible, and any ways I could improve it.