The University of Louisiana Monroe has announced a U.S. Patent has been awarded based on research led by a ULM College of Pharmacy professor.
Khalid El Sayed, Ph.D., a professor of medicinal and natural products chemistry in the School of Basic Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Sciences, College of Pharmacy, piloted the research into a process to isolate oleocanthal from olive oil for use in breast cancer treatment and relapse prevention.
The patent was awarded to the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors. El Sayed, Abu Bakar Siddique, a postdoctoral fellow at ULM, and Hassan Y. Ebrahim of Cairo, Egypt, were listed as the inventors.