The Department of Pharmacy is currently carrying out a joint project in the field of Computational Chemistry in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. Computational Chemistry is emerging at the forefront of contemporary drug design techniques.

This specific project is targeting the androgen receptor, which is known to play an important role in the development of prostate cancer. The aim of this project is to design a synthetically feasible anti-androgen, which, while exhibiting the binding affinity to the androgen receptor of currently used drug molecules, is non-steroidal in structure, thus effectively minimising steroid associated side effects.

The University of Malta is sponsoring this project through a scholarship awarded to Claire Zerafa, assistant lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy. The study is being tutored by Professor Victor Ferrito and Professor Anthony Serracino Inglott for the Department of Pharmacy, and by Dr Stephen Doughty for the University of Nottingham.

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