Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathem Alkhateeb, the Scientific Affairs Division at the University of Baghdad/College of Pharmacy held an in-person seminar entitled “Urea as Scaffold in Anticancer Drugs,” delivered by pharmacist Mostafa Fayez Tawfeeq, the PhD student at the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department.
The seminar aimed to introduce the audience to the role of urea in the design of anticancer drugs and to highlight its chemical and pharmaceutical significance as a fundamental structural in the development of anticancer agents. It also addressed the role of urea in enhancing the biological activity of drug compounds and improving their therapeutic properties.
The seminar included several topics, including the chemical and pharmaceutical properties of the urea moiety and its importance in drug discovery and design. It also reviewed the role of urea derivatives in the development of anticancer agents and their various mechanisms of action, in addition to discussing the major synthetic approaches used for the preparation and optimization of urea derivatives for pharmaceutical research purposes.
The seminar concluded that urea derivatives represent a promising class of pharmaceutical compounds with significant therapeutic potential in cancer treatment. It recommended further research efforts toward the design and synthesis of novel urea derivatives and the evaluation of their biological activity, toxicity, and selectivity against cancer cells, with the aim of developing more effective and safer anticancer therapies in the future.
