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Brian D. Palmer is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific focus areas in Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Physiology, Pharmacology, and Biological Psychiatry.

The scientist's work addresses major topics including Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms, Biochemical and Molecular Research, Tryptophan and brain disorders, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Synthesis and biological activity, and Circadian rhythm and melatonin.

Frequent publication venues where Brian D. Palmer's research appears include Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Tetrahedron Letters, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Molecules.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Brian D. Palmer are:

  • Synthesis and structure-activity relationships for tetrahydroisoquinoline-based inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2020, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Synthetic Studies to Help Elucidate the Metabolism of the Preclinical Candidate TBAJ-876-A Less Toxic and More Potent Analogue of Bedaquiline (2020, Molecules)
  • Synthetic studies towards isomeric pyrazolopyrimidines as potential ATP synthesis inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Structural correction of reported N-(6-(2-(dimethylamino)ethoxy)-5-fluoropyridin-3-yl)-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)pyrazolo[1,5-α]pyrimidin-7-amine (2021, Tetrahedron Letters)
  • Synthesis and structure-activity relationships for a new class of tetrahydronaphthalene amide inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2021, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Parallel discovery of selective and dual inhibitors of tryptophan dioxygenases IDO1 and TDO2 with a newly-modified enzymatic assay (2021, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry)

Their frequent co-authors include Hamish S. Sutherland, Peter J. Choi, Christopher B. Cooper, William A. Denny, and Scott G. Franzblau.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms and biomaterials in pH-responsive tumour targeted drug delivery: A review.

    Manju Kanamala;William R. Wilson;Mimi Yang;Brian D. Palmer

  • Tyrosine kinase inhibitors. 15. 4-(Phenylamino)quinazoline and 4-(phenylamino)pyrido[d]pyrimidine acrylamides as irreversible inhibitors of the ATP binding site of the epidermal growth factor receptor.

    J. B. Smaill;B. D. Palmer;G. W. Rewcastle;W. A. Denny

  • Hypoxia-selective antitumor agents. 7. Metal complexes of aliphatic mustards as a new class of hypoxia-selective cytotoxins. Synthesis and evaluation of cobalt(III) complexes of bidentate mustards.

    David C. Ware;Brian D. Palmer;William R. Wilson;William A. Denny

  • Relationships Between Hydrophobicity, Reactivity, Accumulation And Peripheral Nerve Toxicity Of A Series Of Platinum Drugs

    D. Screnci;M.J. McKeage;P. Galettis;T.W. Hambley

  • Tyrosine kinase inhibitors. 9. Synthesis and evaluation of fused tricyclic quinazoline analogues as ATP site inhibitors of the tyrosine kinase activity of the epidermal growth factor receptor

    Gordon W. Rewcastle;Brian D. Palmer;Alexander J. Bridges;H. D. Hollis Showalter

  • Tyrosine kinase inhibitors. 10. Isomeric 4-[(3-bromophenyl)amino]pyrido[d]-pyrimidines are potent ATP binding site inhibitors of the tyrosine kinase function of the epidermal growth factor receptor.

    Gordon W. Rewcastle;Brian D. Palmer;Andrew M. Thompson;Alexander J. Bridges

  • Gemcitabine sensitization by checkpoint kinase 1 inhibition correlates with inhibition of a Rad51 DNA damage response in pancreatic cancer cells

    Leslie A. Parsels;Meredith A. Morgan;Daria M. Tanska;Joshua D. Parsels

  • Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. 11. Soluble Analogues of Pyrrolo- and Pyrazoloquinazolines as Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors: Synthesis, Biological Evaluation, and Modeling of the Mode of Binding

    Brian D. Palmer;Susanne Trumpp-Kallmeyer;David W. Fry;James M. Nelson

  • Hypoxia-selective antitumor agents. 3. Relationships between structure and cytotoxicity against cultured tumor cells for substituted N,N-bis(2-chloroethyl)anilines.

    Brian D. Palmer;William R. Wilson;Susan M. Pullen;William A. Denny

  • Synthesis and Structure−Activity Relationships of Aza- and Diazabiphenyl Analogues of the Antitubercular Drug (6S)-2-Nitro-6-{[4-(trifluoromethoxy)benzyl]oxy}-6,7-dihydro-5H-imidazo[2,1-b][1,3]oxazine (PA-824)

    Iveta Kmentova;Hamish S. Sutherland;Brian D. Palmer;Adrian Blaser

  • Synthesis and structure-activity studies of biphenyl analogues of the tuberculosis drug (6S)-2-nitro-6-{[4-(trifluoromethoxy)benzyl]oxy}-6,7-dihydro-5H-imidazo[2,1-b][1,3]oxazine (PA-824).

    Brian D. Palmer;Andrew M. Thompson;Hamish S. Sutherland;Adrian Blaser

  • 4-Phenylpyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazole-1,3(2H,6H)-dione inhibitors of the checkpoint kinase Wee1. Structure-activity relationships for chromophore modification and phenyl ring substitution.

    Brian D Palmer;Andrew M Thompson;R John Booth;Ellen M Dobrusin

  • Bioactivation of dinitrobenzamide mustards by an E. coli B nitroreductase.

    G.M. Anlezark;R.G. Melton;R.F. Sherwood;W.R. Wilson

  • Synthesis, reduction potentials, and antitubercular activity of ring A/B analogues of the bioreductive drug (6S)-2-nitro-6-{[4-(trifluoromethoxy)benzyl]oxy}-6,7-dihydro-5H-imidazo[2,1-b][1,3]oxazine (PA-824).

    Andrew M. Thompson;Adrian Blaser;Robert F. Anderson;Sujata S. Shinde

  • Potential antitumor agents. 54. Chromophore requirements for in vivo antitumor activity among the general class of linear tricyclic carboxamides

    Brian D. Palmer;Gordon W. Rewcastle;Graham J. Atwell;Bruce C. Baguley

  • Hypoxia-selective antitumor agents. 5. Synthesis of water-soluble nitroaniline mustards with selective cytotoxicity for hypoxic mammalian cells.

    Brian D. Palmer;William R. Wilson;Stephen Cliffe;William A. Denny

  • Mustard prodrugs for activation by Escherichia coli nitroreductase in gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy

    Frank Friedlos;William A. Denny;Brian D. Palmer;Caroline J. Springer

  • DNA-directed alkylating agents. 5. Acridinecarboxamide derivatives of (1,2-diaminoethane)dichloroplatinum(II).

    Ho H. Lee;Brian D. Palmer;Bruce C. Baguley;Michael Chin

  • Structure-activity relationships for 2-anilino-6-phenylpyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidin-7(8H)-ones as inhibitors of the cellular checkpoint kinase Wee1.

    Brian D. Palmer;Jeff B. Smaill;Gordon W. Rewcastle;Ellen M. Dobrusin

  • Total synthesis of the ionophore antibiotic X-14547A (Indanomycin)

    Martin P. Edwards;Steven V. Ley;Simon G. Lister;Brian D. Palmer

  • 3,5-Dialkoxypyridine analogues of bedaquiline are potent antituberculosis agents with minimal inhibition of the hERG channel.

    Hamish S. Sutherland;Amy S.T. Tong;Peter J. Choi;Adrian Blaser

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Denny
William A. Denny University of Auckland
William R. Wilson
William R. Wilson University of Auckland
Bruce C. Baguley
Bruce C. Baguley University of Auckland
Scott G. Franzblau
Scott G. Franzblau University of Illinois at Chicago
David W. Fry
David W. Fry Pfizer (United States)
Edward N. Baker
Edward N. Baker University of Auckland
Colin J. Jackson
Colin J. Jackson Australian National University
Steven V. Ley
Steven V. Ley University of Cambridge
Jun Lu
Jun Lu Zhejiang University
Lynnette R. Ferguson
Lynnette R. Ferguson University of Auckland

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