Education:
- Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, PhD, 1985, Biochemistry
- North Central College, Naperville, IL BA 1981, Biology/Chemistry
- La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA Postdoc, 1988, Nuclear Receptors in Cancer
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, England, Postdoc, 1991, CREB and JUN Transcription Factors
Select Publications:
Ramraj SK, Elayapillai SP, Pelikan RC, Zhao YD, Isingizwe ZR, Kennedy AL, Lightfoot SA, Benbrook DM. Novel ovarian cancer maintenance therapy targeted at mortalin and mutant p53. Int J Cancer. 2019 Dec 17. PMID: 31845320.
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Gnanasekaran KK, Pouland T, Bunce RA, Darrell Berlin K, Abuskhuna S, Bhandari D, Mashayekhi M, Zhou DH, Benbrook DM. Tetrahydroquinoline units in flexible heteroarotinoids (Flex-Hets) convey anti-cancer properties in A2780 ovarian cancer cells. Bioorg Med Chem. 2020 Jan 01; 28(1):115244. PMID: 31831296.
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Csiszar A, Balasubramanian P, Tarantini S, Yabluchanskiy A, Zhang XA, Springo Z, Benbrook D, Sonntag WE, Ungvari Z. Chemically induced carcinogenesis in rodent models of aging: assessing organismal resilience to genotoxic stressors in geroscience research. Geroscience. 2019 04; 41(2):209-227. PMID: 31037472.
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Nammalwar B, Bunce RA, Berlin KD, Benbrook DM, Toal C. Synthesis and biological evaluation of SHetA2 (NSC-721689) analogs against the ovarian cancer cell line A2780. Eur J Med Chem. 2019 May 15; 170:16-27. PMID: 30878829.
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Watts FM, Pouland T, Bunce RA, Berlin KD, Benbrook DM, Mashayekhi M, Bhandari D, Zhou D. Activity of oxygen-versus sulfur-containing analogs of the Flex-Het anticancer agent SHetA2. Eur J Med Chem. 2018 Oct 05; 158:720-732. PMID: 30245396.
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Mahjabeen S, Hatipoglu MK, Benbrook DM, Garcia-Contreras L. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Escalating Doses of SHetA2 After Vaginal Administration to Mice. J Pharm Sci. 2018 12; 107(12):3179-3186. PMID: 30196041.
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Mahjabeen S, Hatipoglu MK, Benbrook DM, Kosanke SD, Garcia-Contreras D, Garcia-Contreras L. Influence of the estrus cycle of the mouse on the disposition of SHetA2 after vaginal administration. Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 2018 Sep; 130:272-280. PMID: 30064701.
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Carlson BW, Craft MA, Carlson JR, Razaq W, Deardeuff KK, Benbrook DM. Accelerated vascular aging and persistent cognitive impairment in older female breast cancer survivors. Geroscience. 2018 06; 40(3):325-336. PMID: 29804200.
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Sharma A, Benbrook DM, Woo S. Pharmacokinetics and interspecies scaling of a novel, orally-bioavailable anti-cancer drug, SHetA2. PLoS One. 2018; 13(4):e0194046. PMID: 29634717.
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Ramraj SK, Smith KM, Janakiram NB, Toal C, Raman A, Benbrook DM. Correlation of clinical data with fallopian tube specimen immune cells and tissue culture capacity. Tissue Cell. 2018 Jun; 52:57-64. PMID: 29857829.
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