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Faculty of Pharmacy



Centre for Drug and Herbal Development (CDHD)


Research at CDHD involves all aspects of drug discovery and development of bioactive natural products with the aims to aid and advance in the area of drug discovery and development by establishing various approaches to drug discovery.

The Centre for Drug and Herbal Development (CDHD), Faculty of Pharmacy is recognised as one of the reference centre for drug and herbal research in the region.

KEY RESEARCH AREAS

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Drug Discovery - Phytochemistry, Drug Design and Synthesis
Cell-Viability-Proliferation-and-Cytotoxicity
Bioassays - Pharmaceutical Biology, Pharmacology, Toxicology
herbal analysis
Herbal Analysis - Pharmacognosy, Development of Herbal, Nutraceutical and Cosmeceutical Products
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Research Members

Chair of CDHD

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Biochemistry, immunology.

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Pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical analysis and quality control.

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Natural products chemistry,听drug discovery.

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Drug design and synthesis,听cardiovascular diseases.听

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Neuroprotection & neurotoxicity of dopaminergic neurons, behavioural & molecular neuropharmacology, pharmacy education.

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Phytochemical studies in natural products, Bioactivities on anti-inflammatory (NO), and anti-allergic studies, drug discovery, herbal monograph.

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Spectroscopic analysis of pharmaceutical and herbal products, Counterfeit and adultered drugs detection, development and application of spectral database, near infrared spectroscopy, chemometric applications.

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Drug discovery, synthesis.

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Biobanking, next-generation sequencing, Nanopore sequencing, PCR and genotyping, Molecular cloning, cell culture.

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Molecular biology and pharmacology, gene cloning, protein expression.

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Immunopharmacology of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides. Works involve cell culture, molecular biology, immunocytochemistry, flow cytometry .

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Pharmacology on cancer and wound healing, signaling pathway studies, public health .

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Neuromodulation.

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Bone metabolism, pharmacology, endocrine, animal model (osteoporosis), tocotrienols.

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Natural Product Pharmacology, Computer aided drug discovery, medicinal plants, Network Pharmacology.

Contact

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Norsyahida Mohd Fauzi
+603-9289 7275
+603-2698 3271
pcdhd-ffar@ukm.edu.my

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