Medicines from traditional plant ingredients have prospects of scientific development and decent research. In international level, Indonesia is wellknown for its abundance of its spices and traditional medicinal ingredients. Research in traditional medicine is the concern of Dr. Aty Widyawaruyanti, dra., Apt., M.Si. She not only lectures regarding Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, but also spends her time in laboratory in Institute of Tropical Disease (ITD) UNAIR to study natural medicinal ingredients. The aims were to support pharmacy education and to shape experts in pharmacist profession. Aty has been actively involved in research since she was a staff in Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry department. Overall, she conducted research aiming at gaining active ingredients for her research object, mainly plants and traditional ingredients for medicine. The active ingredients could be extract, fraction, or compound which had been isolated from plants. Furthermore, Aty focuses her study on natural medicinal ingredients discovery for anti malaria. In 1990-present, she developed research focusing on medicinal ingredients for malaria, including isolating its active compounds. Nowadays, there were two anti malaria candidates from the extracts she developed: extract or fraction. Those two candidates came from cempedak barks and sambiloto herb. In laboratory named Center for Natural Product Medicine Research and Development, she developed her research to obtain natural products in capsules and tablets. For malaria treatment, few activities of products have been tested on experimental animals and pre-clinic ones. In ITD, Aty did not only conduct research on anti malaria medicine but also explored medicine ingredients from other plants. She together with her team surveyed several national parks and forests to take plant samples. Those samples would be extracted and tested. Besides research, Aty wrote publications of articles in national and international levels, such as: “Activities of Ficus fistulosa leaves extract and fractions against Hepatitis C Virus” in 2016; and “Andrographolide determination of Andrographis paniculata extract, ethyl acetate fraction and tablets by thin layer chromatography” in 2015. (*) |
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Place and Date of Birth :Jakarta, 26 April 1962 Email :aty_ww@yahoo.com Phone :08113404171 Educational Background :
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