The Faculty of Pharmacy council will hold its monthly meeting On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at 11:00 (AM)
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Finding effective and selective anticancer agents is a top medical priority due to high clinical treatment demand. However, current anticancer agents have serious side effects and resistance development remains a big concern. This creates an urgent need for new multitarget drugs that could solve these problems. Tetrahydrocarbazoles and 5-arylidene-4-thiazolinones have always attracted researchers for their multifaced anticancer activities and the possibility to be easily derivatized. Thereby, herein we report the combination of the two scaffolds to provide compounds 9a-j and 10a-j that were fully characterized and their tautomeric form was confirmed by crystal structure. 9a-j and 10a-j were assessed for in vitro antiproliferative activity using SRB assay against a panel of seven human cancer cell lines with doxorubicin as the standard. The results revealed that the cell lines derived from leukemia (Jurkat) and lymphoma (U937) are the most sensitive. Compounds 9d, 10e, 10g, and 10f revealed the highest potency (IC 50 (IC 50 = 3.11–11.89 μ M) with much lower effects on normal lymphocytes cell line >50µM). The results show that modifications at 6th position of the THC and the nature of the substituent at the arylidene moiety affect the activity. To exploit the mode of action, 9d, 10e, 10f, and 10g were evaluated as VEGFR-2 and EGFR inhibitors. 10e is the most potent (IC 50 0.26 and 0.14 μ M) against both enzymes. It also induced G0-G1-phase cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. While 10g exhibited higher potency (IC 50 vincristine (IC 50 15.63 μ 9.95 μ M) than M) against tubulin. A molecular docking study was carried out to understand the in teractions between 10e, 10g and their targets. This study reveals 10e and 10g as possible candidates for developing multitarget anticancer agents against leukemia and lymphoma
The Faculty of Pharmacy council will hold its monthly meeting On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at 11:00 (AM)
The lecture for the Medicinal Chemistry-2 course for third-year Pharm D students has been scheduled for April 15, 2025, at 12:00 PM in the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department lecture hall.
God willing, the meeting of the Libraries Committee at the Faculty of Pharmacy and that will be on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at 10:30 AM.at the invitation of Professor Mrs. Professor Dr. Gihan Nabil Hassan Fetih
This meeting will be held in the office of Mrs. Prof. Dr. / Dean of the Faculty - Fifth Floor (Administrative Building).
God willing, the laboratories and scientific equipment committee will hold its meeting That will be on Sunday, April 13, 2025, at 10:30 AM
in the office of Vice Dean for Community Services and Environmental Development Affairs.