Congrats to Dr Violet Lee Eng Yee for successfully defending her PhD! Her thesis title was "New Modes of Activation for Platinum(IV) Prodrugs for Controlled Anticancer Drug Delivery".
10 May 2021METAL in PharMacEuTicAL
The simple inorganic platinum compound cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), also known as cisplatin, is one of the most important anticancer drug in clinical use. The discovery of its antitumoural activity by Barnett Rosenberg some 40 years ago opened a new area of anticancer research based on metal complexes.
In the Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, headed by Dr. Ang Wee Han, we are interested in taking the development of these metal complexes to a whole new level. Our research involves the study of the "metal" in pharmaceutical drugs for cancer therapy. Using rational drug design, we explore alternative strategies and analytical tools to develop viable chemotherapeutic agents based not only on platinum but also other metal centres.
Laboratory Group Members (Photo taken Aug 2015)
Featured Publications
- , Interfering with Metabolic Profile of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer using Rationally-Designed Metformin Prodrugs, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 13405-13413
- , A Cisplatin‐Selective Fluorescent Probe for Real‐Time Monitoring of Mitochondrial Platinum Accumulation in Living Cells, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 9264-9269
- , Strategy for Traceless Codrug Delivery with Platinum(IV) Prodrug Complexes Using Self-Immolative Linkers, Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 1823–1831
- , “Illuminating” Echinocandins’ Mechanism of Action, ACS Cent. Sci., 2020, 6, 1651-1653
- , PlatinER: A Highly Potent Anticancer Platinum(II) Complex that Induces Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Driven Immunogenic Cell Death, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 19070-19078
- , Harnessing Endogenous Formate for Antibacterial Prodrug Activation by in cellulo Ruthenium-Mediated Transfer Hydrogenation Reaction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 9314-9318
- , A structure-based mechanism of cisplatin resistance mediated by glutathione transferase P1-1, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2019, 116, 13943-13951
- , Dual-Targeting Dual-Action Platinum(IV) Platform for Enhanced Anticancer Activity and Reduced Nephrotoxicity (VIP), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 8109-8114
- , A Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe for Cisplatin: Investigating the Intracellular Reduction of Platinum(IV) Prodrug Complexes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 164-167
- , Apoptosis-independent organoruthenium anticancer complexes that overcome multidrug resistance: self-assembly and phenotypic screening strategies , Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3641-3649
- , Structural tuning of organoruthenium compounds allows oxidative switch to control ER stress pathways and bypass multidrug resistance, Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 4117-4124
- , Induction of Immunogenic Cell Death by Chemotherapeutic Platinum Complexes (VIP), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 2015, 54, 6483-6487
- , Discovery and Investigation of Anticancer Ruthenium Arene Schiff-Base Complexes via Water-Promoted Combinatorial Three-Component Assembly, J. Med. Chem., 2014, 57, 6043-6059
- , Immuno-Chemotherapeutic Platinum(IV) Prodrugs of Cisplatin as Multimodal Anticancer Agents, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 26, 6752-6756
- , A Fluorescent Probe for Investigating the Activation of Anticancer Platinum(IV) Prodrugs Based on the Cisplatin Scaffold, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 11785-11789
