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(Amendment) Schedule of Lecture and Practical Session Schedule for the Clinical Pharmacy Program Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Research, National University Second Semester of the Academic Year 2025/2026

Meeting of the Department of Pharmacognosy Council at the Faculty of Pharmacy This will take place on Thursday, February 5, 2026

God willing, the 67th meeting of the Department of Pharmacognosy Council at the Faculty of Pharmacy This will take place on Thursday, February 5, 2026.26, at 11:00 AM.

in the department council meeting room.

 

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The faculty extends its congratulations to Professor Dr. Tarek Aboul-Fadl Mohamed Hassan, Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, on his research project receiving funding from the faculty for the academic year 2025/2026.

 

The Faculty extends its congratulations to

 Professor Dr. Tarek Aboul-Fadl Mohamed Hassan,

Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, on receiving funding for his research project entitled: "Design, Synthesis, and Anthelmintic Profiling of New Heterocyclic Scaffolds"  for the academic year 2025/2026.

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Nature-inspired chalcone-functionalized paracetamol derivatives as potential anticancer leads: synthesis, biological evaluation, apoptotic mechanisms, and in silico docking studies

Research Abstract

Inspired by the known anticancer activities of hydroxychalcones and acetamidochalcones, a series of novel hybrid molecules integrating these motifs with a paracetamol core were designed and synthesized. The synthesized chalcone–paracetamol hybrids were evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against a panel of eight human cancer cell lines. Compounds 6a, 6b, and 9, showed good activity against four cancer cell lines (U937, Jurkat, HCT-116 and MCF-7 cells). Notably, derivative 9 was the most potent with IC50 ranging from 1.50 to 4.50 μM, while showing no significant toxicity toward normal cells. Mechanistic investigations revealed that compound 9 induced cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 phase and stimulated apoptosis. Further biochemical analysis identified it (9) as a multi-target agent, with significant inhibitory activity against EGFR (0.62 ± 0.02 μM), VEGFR-2 (2.26 ± 0.01 μM), COX-2 (17.38 ± 0.13 μM), and tubulin polymerization (19.31 ± 0.29 μM). Molecular docking analysis supported these results, showing strong binding affinities for the respective target proteins, with high binding scores of compound 9 ranging from (−9.2 to −10.0) kcal/mol. Collectively, these findings highlight that compound 9 is worthy of further investigation as a potential anticancer lead.

Research Authors
Omaima F. Ibrahim, Rana M. I. Morsy, Varsha Menon, Wafaa S. Ramadan, Raafat El-Awady, Hajjaj H. M. Abdu-Allah, Etify A. Bakhite
Research Date
Research Journal
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Research Pages
130562
Research Publisher
Elsevier
Research Vol
134
Research Website
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960894X26000296?dgcid=author
Research Year
2026
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