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ULM pharmacy awarded drug patent
The United States Patent & Trademark Office recently awarded the University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy a patent for a new anti-cancer drug designed to control prostate cancer metastasis.
Dr. Girish Shah and Dr. Khalid El Sayed, professors in ULM's basic pharmaceutical sciences department, developed a new drug derived from the Red Sea sponge Hemimycale arabica. Shah and El Sayed designed a unique screening platform enabling them to identify one right compound among 50. This discovery was further proven in their transgenic mouse model.
El Sayed said, "I was fortunate to have a great prostate cancer expert like Dr. Shah, who expressed an interest in testing our marine natural products library ... Most cancer mortality is attributed to its ability to invade and metastasize to distant vital organs. Out of more than 50 compounds, a compound from a shallow water Red Sea sponge was able to exert good activity."
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