It’s been a long road for Australian cancer scientists, Dr Jennifer MacDiarmid and Dr Himanshu Brahmbhatt, who started their company EnGeneIC 24 years ago, guided by an unshakeable belief they could change the way the world treats cancer.

In the last two weeks, their world-first disruptive cancer-beating technology, EnGeneIC Dream Vector (EDV) — a microscopic “Trojan Horse” that slips inside cancer cells and destroys them from within, sparing healthy cells — commenced large-scale human trials in the United States, fast tracked by the US Food and Drug Administration.

It’s a huge moment for the pair, whose journey has been captured over a decade in a two-part SBS documentary, The Cancer Killers, screening on SBS on Demand.

“It’s a big game changer,” MacDiarmid said of the blind second-lin

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