Mohammad is a PhD student jointly supervised by Dr Fazlul Huq and Dr Beale.

Mohammad is investigating new tumour-active metal complexes. Currently he is working with a number of trinuclear palladium complexes.

Objectives

• To synthesize multicentred palladium compounds containing planar amine ligands.
• To determine the activity against cancer cell lines
• To quantify the nature of interaction with DNA and its constituents

Mohammad's research has resulted in the following publications:

Publications

1. F Huq, M Farhad, A Abdullah, P Beale and M Zhang (2004) Studies on oligonuclear palladium complexes. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Submitted         
2. M Farhad, F Huq, and P Beale (2003) Studies on trinuclear palladium complexes (anticancer active). Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 96:129
3. P Beale, F Huq and M Farhad (2002) Studies on polynuclear palladium complexes.Third Research Conference 2002, "From Cell to Society 3", Leura (18-19 September, 2002). Organized by the College of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney.
4. F Huq and M Farhad (2001) Modelling the interaction between Cu2+ and the nucleobases adenine and guanine in solution in water. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 86:273

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