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Hristo Plamenov Varbanov

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Screening-based approach to discover effective platinum-based chemotherapies for cancers with poor prognosis

Gerardo Turcatti, Damiano Banfi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Fabien Kuttler, Hristo Plamenov Varbanov

Drug combinations are extensively used to treat cancer and are often selected according to complementary mechanisms. Here, we describe a cell-based high-throughput screening assay for identification of synergistic combinations between broadly applied plati ...

2019

Repositioning approved drugs for the treatment of problematic cancers using a screening approach

Gerardo Turcatti, Damiano Banfi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Fabien Kuttler, Hristo Plamenov Varbanov

Advances in treatment strategies together with an earlier diagnosis have considerably increased the average survival of cancer patients over the last four decades. Nevertheless, despite the growing number of new antineoplastic agents introduced each year, ...

2017

Oxaliplatin reacts with DMSO only in the presence of water

Paul Joseph Dyson, Laure Menin, Hristo Plamenov Varbanov

Herein we show that oxaliplatin reacts rapidly with DMSO in aqueous solutions, despite being stable in pure DMSO and pure water. Furthermore, the reactivity of the clinically applied Pt(II) drugs in water/DMSO and PBS/DMSO mixtures, and the nature of the s ...

2017