Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery

ISSN: 1574-8928 - Volume 3, 3 Issues, 2008

Editor-in-Chief:

Khurshid Zaman
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.

Editorial Advisory Board:

M.G. Achen (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Melbourne, Australia)
D.J. Adams (DUMC, Durham, NC, USA)
S. Agrawal (Hybridon, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA)
S. Ahmed (Kingston University, Surrey, UK)
R.J. Akhurst (University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA)
A.M. Almerico (University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy)
K. Altundag (Hacettepe Univ. Inst. Oncology, Ankara, Turkey)
A. Amin (United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE)
V. Apostolopoulos (The Austin Research Institute, Heidelberg, Australia)
G.J. Atkins (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
B.C. Baguley (University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
P.G. Baraldi (Universita di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)
S. Barth (Pharmaceut. Prod. Dev., Aachen, Germany)
A. Bateman (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
D.C. Baumgart (Charité Medical Center, Berlin, Germany)
A. Belfiore (Univ. of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy)
C.L. Berger (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
A. Berrebi (Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel)
S.K. Bhattacharya (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA)
J.A. Boockvar (Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA)
W.G. Bornmann (University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA)
M. Bracke (University Hospital, Gent, Belgium)
A. Breier (Slovak Acad. Sci. Inst., Bratislava, Slovakia)
R.M. Brosh (National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA)
A. Budillon (National Cancer Institute, Napoli, Italy)
B. Bussolati (University of Turin, Orbassano, Italy)
S.X. Cai (EpiCept Corporation, San Diego, CA, USA)
Y. Cao (MTC Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
K. Camphausen (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA)
M. Caraglia (Second Univ. of Naples, Naples, Italy)
C. Carlo-Stella (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
D.P. de Carvalho (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
N. Cerqueira (REQUIMTE / Faculdade de Ciéncias, Porto, Portugal)
J.B. Chaires (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA)
A. Chan (The Mount Sinai Sch. of Med., New York, NY, USA)
D.P. Chauhan (University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA)
F. Chen (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
J. Chen (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, MN, USA)
Q. Chen (Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
X. Chen (MIPS, Stanford, CA, USA)
P. Chene (Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland)
A. Ciampolillo (University of Bari, Bari, Italy)
J. Claria (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
L. Cocco (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
M.P. Costi (Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy)
P. Cuevas (Univ Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain)
Z. Culig (University of Innsbruck, Anichstrasse, Austria)
W.M. Dai (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
H. Deissler (University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)
J. Dietrich (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
C. Doehn (Univ. of Lubeck Med. Sch., Lubeck, Germany)
R.J. Doll (Schering-Plough Res. Inst., Kenilworth, NJ, USA)
F. Donate (Attenuon, San Diego, CA, USA)
A. Ducharme (Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada)
A.Z. Dudek (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
H.S. Duggal (West. Psychiatric Inst. and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
J. Dulak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
C. Dumontet (CHU de Pierre Benite, Lyon, France)
M.V. Dwek (University of Westminster, London, UK)
J. Easmon (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)
J.A. Eble (Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany)
F. Entschladen (Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany)
Z. Estrov (University of Texas, Huston, TX, USA)
W.D. Figg (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA)
D. Fornasari (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
R.A. Franklin (Brody Sch. of Med. at East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC, USA)
G. Fritz (University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany)
S. Fulda (University Ulm., Ulm, Germany)
M. Galanski (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
L. Gamet-Payrastre (INRA, Toulouse, France)
C. Garcia-Echeverria (Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland)
M. Gautum (University of Pune, Pune, India)
J. Golab (The Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)
B.G. Gold (Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA)
P. Grieb (Med. Res. Ctr. Polish Acad. of Sci., Warsaw, Poland)
D. Grierson (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
P. Gunning (Childrens Hospital, Westmead, Australia)
D. Hallahan (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
F.H. Hausheer (BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Antonio, TX, USA)
T.-C. He (The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA)
P. Heseltine (Global Businesses Beckman Coulter, Inc., Brea, CA, USA)
J.W. Ho (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
M. Holeík (Apoptosis Research Center, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
A. Honda (Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki, Japan)
H. Hondermarck (Univ. des Sci. et Tech. de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France)
J. Howl (University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK)
W. Hu (University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA)
D.H. Hua (Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA)
H.-S. Huang (National Cancer Centre of Singapore, Singapore)
H. Hung (National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan)
K.-I. Inoue (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan)
M. Iskander (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
N. Jing (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
K. Kakudo (Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan)
Y. Keisari (Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel)
M. Khan (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
S.G. Kim (Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
Y.-H. Kim (Korea Univ. Coll. of Medcine, Seoul, South Korea)
A. Kimura (Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan)
S. Kimura (Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan)
A. Korycka (Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)
I. Kostova (Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria)
S.V. Kozlov (NCI at Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA)
A.P. Krapcho (University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA)
G. Kremmidiotis (Bionomics Limited, Thebarton, Australia)
M. Kriajevska (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)
J. Kusari (Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Irvine, CA, USA)
H.C. Lai (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
F. Lallemend (University of Liege, Liege, Belgium)
N. Lange (University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
O. Lavergne (Ipsen Research Laboratories, Les Ulis, France)
M. Lee (Hope College, Holland, MI, USA)
M. Lei (Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, MI, USA)
F. Leroux (University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
P. Limonta (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
H.K. Lin (Nankai University, Tianjin, China)
M.L. Lindsey (The Univ.of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA)
C.A. Lingwood (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
K.P. Lu (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
R. Lucas (University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria)
B.A. Lwaleed (Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK)
B. Malgrange (University of Liege, Liege, Belgium)
F. Mannello (University "Carlo Bo" of Urbino, Urbino, Italy)
J.M.P. Martin (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
R. Martinez ( Univ. Nac. Autónoma de México, Mexico)
M. Matsumoto (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Otsuka, Japan)
A.P. Mazar (Attenuon, L.L.C., San Diego, CA, USA)
J.A. McCubrey (Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, NC, USA)
M. Mckeage (The Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
M.J. Meegan (School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
L. Messori (University of Firenza, Fenza, Italy)
O. Micheau (INSERM, University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France)
B.J. Michel (University of Paul Cezanne, Marseille, France)
R.F. Minchin (University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia)
S. Mocellin (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
R.M. Mohammad (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA)
D. Mohanraj (CuraGen Corporation, Branford, CT, USA)
K. Moriarty (Johnson and Johnson PRD , Exton, P, USA)
C. Mothersill (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
L. Munaron (University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
N. Neamati (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
L. Nair (Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ, USA)
Y. Najajreh (Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine)
J. Neuzil (Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia)
G.L. Nichols (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
A. Nishikawa (National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan)
M. Ohh (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
T. Okamoto (Nippon Chemiphar, Co., Ltd., Misato, Saitama, Japan)
S.N. Orlov (University of Montreal Hospital, Montreal, Canada)
G.F. Oxenkrug (St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA)
Y.-P. Pang (Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, MN, USA)
J.O. Park (University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL, USA)
E. Papadimitriou (University of Patras, Patras, Greece)
S. Pelengaris (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
S. Pervaiz (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
E. Petridou (Athens Univ. Med. Sch., Athens, Greece)
P. Pevarello (BU-Oncology Nerviano Med. Sci., Nerviano, Italy)
K. Podar (Harvard Medical, Boston, MA , USA)
M. Poirot (Institut Claudius Regaud, Toulouse, France)
C. la Porta (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
J.T. Price (Monash University, Victoria, Australia)
M. Prudhomme (University Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France)
M.D. Pujol (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
J. Quin (Liverpool Hlth. Serv., Liverpool, UK)
J.Y. Rao (University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
T. Robak (Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)
D. Ribatti (University of Bari, Bari, Italy)
P. Russo (National Institute for Research on Cancer, Genua, Italy)
F. Saad (University of Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
D. Santini (University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy)
S. Sasaguri (Kochi Medical School, Kochi, Japan)
M. Sattler (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA)
N.A. Saunders (University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia)
T.K. Sawyer (ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA)
M. Schaffer (University of Munich, Munich, Germany)
M.P. Schön (Bayerische Julius-Maximilians University, Wurzburg, Germany)
K.F. Scott (The University of South Wales, Darlinghurst, Australia)
N.P. Seeram (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
E. Segal-Bendirdjian (Institut Universitaire d'Hematologie, Paris, France)
G. Selivanova (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
A. Seth (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
M.S. Sheikh (State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA)
B. Shen (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)
A. Shtil (N.N. Blokhin Cancer Center, Moscow, Russia)
M. Stadler (Bayer Research Center, Wuppertal, Germany)
H. Stepien (Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)
D. Sze (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia)
D. Thurston (University of London, London, UK)
A. Toninello (University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
K.J. Tronstad (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway)
A.C.Tufan (Pamukkale University, Kinikli Denizli, Turkey)
N. Tuncel (Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey)
J. Tyndall (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
F.M. Uckun (Parker Hughes Institute, St. Paul, MN, USA)
H. Uemura (Yokohama City University, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan)
T. Vogt (University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
V. Vuligonda (Retinoid Research Allergan Inc., Irvine, CA, USA)
M. Watanabe (Yokohama National University, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Japan)
T. Watanabe (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
B. Wilkinson (Biotica, Little Chesterford, UK)
K.G. Wiman (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
C. Wójcik (Indiana University Sch. of Med., Evansville, IN, USA)
D. Wolowiec (Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland)
W. Wu (The UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA)
P.X. Xing (The University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Australia)
W. Xu (Shandong University, Jinan Shandong, China)
D.H. Yan (The University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA)
S.-D. Yang (Natl.Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu,Taiwan)
D.J. Yang (The Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr., Houston, TX, USA)
J. Yuan (J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)
K. Ye (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA)
K.J. Yoon (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA)
N. Yoshimi (University of Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan)
G. Zauli (University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy)
H. Zhong (Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
J. Zhou (Nankai University, Tianjin, China)
Y. Zou (The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)