"TB Drug Development-UK (TBD-UK)"
Medical Research Council

Publications

• Mooney MH, Fogarty S, Stevenson CS, Gallagher AM, Palit P, Hawley SA, Hardie DG, Coxon GD, Waigh RD, Tate RJ, Harvey AL, Furman BL. (2008) Mechanisms underlying the metabolic actions of galegine that contribute to weight loss in mice. British Journal of Pharmacology 153, 1669-1677
  
  
• Coxon GD, Furman BL, Harvey AL, McTavish J, Mooney MH, Arastoo M, Kennedy AR, Tettey JM, Waigh RD. (2009) Benzylguanidines and other galegine analogues inducing weight loss in mice. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 52, 3457-3463 [DOI: 10.1021/jm8011933]
  
  
• Al-Balas Q, Anthony NG, Al-Jaidi B, Alnimr A, Abbott G, Brown AK, Taylor RC Besra GS, McHugh TD, Gillespie SH, Johnston BF, Mackay SP, Coxon GD (2009) Identification of 2-Aminothiazole-4-Carboxylate Derivatives Active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and the β-Ketoacyl-ACP Synthase mtFabH. PLoS ONE 4, e5617 [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005617]
  
  

• Mooney MH, Fogarty S, Stevenson CS, Gallagher AM, Palit P, Hawley SA, Hardie DG, Coxon GD, Waigh RD, Tate RJ, Harvey AL, Furman BL. (2008) Mechanisms underlying the metabolic actions of galegine that contribute to weight loss in mice. British Journal of Pharmacology 153, 1669-1677
  
  
• Coxon GD, Furman BL, Harvey AL, McTavish J, Mooney MH, Arastoo M, Kennedy AR, Tettey JM, Waigh RD. (2009) Benzylguanidines and other galegine analogues inducing weight loss in mice. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 52, 3457-3463 [DOI: 10.1021/jm8011933]
  
  
• Al-Balas Q, Anthony NG, Al-Jaidi B, Alnimr A, Abbott G, Brown AK, Taylor RC Besra GS, McHugh TD, Gillespie SH, Johnston BF, Mackay SP, Coxon GD (2009) Identification of 2-Aminothiazole-4-Carboxylate Derivatives Active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and the β-Ketoacyl-ACP Synthase mtFabH. PLoS ONE 4, e5617 [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005617]
  
  

Group

Postgraduate students

Bilal Ali Ahmad Al-jaidi: 'Design and Synthesis of Novel Antituberculosis Agents' (started 2007)

Giacomo Berretta: 'the Synthesis of Cyclopropanating Enzymes in Mycolic Acid Biosynthesis Towards New Drug Candidates for the Treatment of Persistant Tuberculosis Infect' (started 2006)

Helena Isabel Pereira Goncalves: 'The identification, design and synthesis of inhibitors of the TpX from Mycobacterium tuberculosis' (started 2011)

John Jeh Lung Tiong: 'Discovery of novel antibacterial and anti-tubercular compounds using chemical genetics and computational approach targeted at phospholipid biosynthesi' (started 2009)