A new heterotrimetallic sandwich-like Cu II -La III -Cu II cluster, [(valpn) 2 Cu 2 La (NO 3 ) 2 ]NO 3 (H 2 O) 1.8 , (H 2 valpn = 1,3-propanediylbis(2-iminomethylene-6-methoxy-phenol)), was synthesized by the reaction of [Cu(valpn)] with La (NO 3 ) 3 .6H 2 O (1:1 M ratio) at room temperature. The resulted cluster was characterized by X-ray diffraction, UV-Vis and IR spectroscopy, and elemental analysis (CHN). The crystal structure of the cluster revealed that La(III) ion was sandwiched between two [Cu(valpn)] moieties and located in the open compartments of two copper Schiff base complexes and being surrounded by 12 oxygen atoms. This cluster complex, as a model anticancer drug, was investigated in interaction with fish sperm deoxyribonucleic acid (FS-DNA) using docking study and experimental methods such as fluorescence and UV-Vis spectroscopy, circular dichroism spectroscopy (CD), cyclic voltammetry (CV), viscosity measurements, and agarose gel electrophoresis. These investigations suggested intercalative interaction between the cluster complex and FS-DNA.Plasma proteins are other targets for the anticancer drugs, so the clusterbovine serum albumin (BSA) interaction was also investigated. For evaluating the binding, Stern-Volmer constants (K SV ) and the number of binding sites (n) were calculated. It was proposed that the electrostatic interaction was the main force in the cluster-BSA binding. Cytotoxic activity was assayed by MTT assay toward LACaP, MCF-7, and HeLa cancer cell lines. The IC 50 values of the cluster for HeLa and LACaP cell lines were lower than for MCF-7 cell lines. The docking studies were also performed for cluster-BSA and cluster-DNA interactions. The cluster was also investigated as an artificial enzyme in catechol oxidase activity, and kinetics of the oxidation of 3,5-di-tert-butylcatechol catalyzed by the cluster was studied.