US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on July 8 for "Method for inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,241, issued on July 8, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells" was invented by Tarek Ahmed Yousef (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Saad Shaaban (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hussein Ba-Ghazal (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Ayman Abo Elmaaty (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed A. Al-Karmalawy (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells includes contacting the cancer cells with a cytotoxic effective amount of an anticancer compound ofwhere R1 to R8 are each independently selected from a group consisting o...