Amani Mahbub
Umm Al Qura University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Amani Mahbub has completed MSc in Biomedical Basis of Disease in 2010 and PhD in Anti-Cancer Potential of Polyphenols in Treatment of Leukemia in 2015 at the Sheffield Hallam University of Biomedical Research Centre – Cancer Research, Sheffield, UK. She has been interested in investigating the biological effects of a number of nutraceutical compounds such as polyphenols alone and in combination with chemotherapies on the induction of apoptosis, reduced cell proliferation and signalling pathways that involved in the pathogenesis of leukaemias. She also has four published papers in the Journal of Pathology (2012), the Journal of Anti-cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (2013) and recently two in Nature (2015), and two more papers under publications. In addition, she was awarded, the Alastair Currie prize for the best poster presentation at the Pathological Society of Great Britain & Ireland Conference in 2012, Sheffield, UK; and Best Poster Prize at 4th International Conference on Blood Malignancies & Treatment, 2016 in Dubai, UAE. Currently, she is working at Umm Al-Qura University in Laboratory Medicine of Applied Medical Sciences College – Pathology Department, Makkah, KSA.
Abstract
Abstract : Polyphenols act synergistically with doxorubicin and etoposide in leukaemia cell lines