Cenk Andac
Istinye University, Turkey
Biography
Cenk A Andac works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy at Istinye University. He has completed his Master’s degree and PhD work from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA (UW-Pharmacy, USA). He has been involved in teaching drug actions and delivery, and pharmaceutical biochemistry and biotechnology courses at UW Pharmacy, USA for four and half years. He has also taught Medical Pharmacology courses as an Assistant Professor for three years in Medical School of Turkey. His current researches are development of novel anticancer agents inhibiting G-coupled receptors in cancer stem cells; development of novel aminoglycoside antibiotics; determination of 3D structures of biological and synthetic compounds by NMR techniques; computer-assisted drug development by AMBER, CHARMM and quantum mechanics; and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics properties of drug-receptor interactions. He currently holds a patent for a potentially active anti-cancer agent against breast cancer.