Research
Marine sponge metabolites represent a highly diverse and structurally complex natural library of compounds with remarkable biological and medicinal properties. Students in the group will develop novel heterocyclic methodologies enable the efficient synthesis of natural products.
The structural diversity of marine sponge metabolites makes them ideal as tools to discover novel targets and mechanisms. The main cellular target of interest in the "proteasome". In our chemical biology lab, students will unravel the biological properties of marine sponge metabolites and determine their use as therapeutic leads or biochemical tools.
Our lab develops new chemical methodologies to mimic the diverse structural features found in natural products with the goal to capture their unique biological properties in drug-like scaffolds. Students in the lab with synthesize and test the new scaffolds in order to optimize the natural product mimics for potency, selectivity, ADME, PK and PD properties. Current programs are focused on novel therapeutics for multiple myeloma, neurodegenerative diseases, and tuberculosis.
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Thank you Taylor, Sophie and Allison of all your hard work in helping me put this together and for the data needed to get his funded!
Rahman was selected as one of the five faculty members from Pakistan's leading research intensive university, LUMS, to receive this award. Rahman is currently an Associate Professor at LUMS after getting his PhD from the Tepe lab at MSU in 2011.
Congrats from all of us!
Biomedicines 2022, 10, 938. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10050938
Title: Small molecule 20S proteasome enhancer regulates MYC protein stability and exhibits antitumor activity in multiple myeloma.
Journal of Medicine Chemistry 2022, in print.
Title: "Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Potent 20S Proteasome Activators for the Potential Treatment of α-synucleinopathies"