Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications

BPharm, PhD, DSc

External memberships/posts

Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

Phytochemical Society of Europe

British Phycological Society

Honorary Member of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society

Editorial Board of Tropical Science

Editorial Board of Natural Product Communications

Advisory Board of the Umm Al-Quara University

Journal of Science, Medicine and Engineering

Research interests

N-methylated compounds from natural sources and their role in resistance to plant stresses; cytotoxic compounds from marine algae.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications Before 2006

Blunden G, Patel AV, Armstrong N, Adrian-Romero M & Meléndez P, Betaine distribution in angiosperms, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 33, 904-920, 2005.

Ali BA, Al Wahel N & Blunden G, Phytochemical, pharmacological and toxicological aspects of Hibiscus sabdariffa L.: A review, Phytotherapy Research, 19, 369-375, 2005.   

Blunden G, Patel AV, Adrian-Romero M & Meléndez P, The accumulation of trans-4-hydroxy-N-methylproline and N-methylproline by some plant species, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 32, 1153-1158, 2004.

Shoeib NA, Bibby MC, Blunden G, Linley PA, Swaine DJ, Wheelhouse RT & Wright CW, In vitro cytotoxic activities of the major bromophenols of the red alga Polysiphonia lanosa and some novel synthetic isomers, J. Nat. Products, 67, 1445-1449, 2004.

Ramírez I, Carabot A, Meléndez P, Carmona J, Patel AV, Crabb TA, Blunden G, Cary PD, Croft SL & Costa M, Cissampeloflavone, an antiprotozoal chalcone-flavone dimer from Cissampelos pareira, Phytochemistry, 64, 645-647, 2003.

Ali BH & Blunden G, Pharmacological and toxicological properties of Nigella sativa, Phytotherapy Research, 17, 299-305, 2003.

Hohmann J, Rédei D, Máthé I & Blunden G, Phenylpropanoid glycosides and diterpenoids from Salvia officinalis, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 31, 427-429, 2003.

Blunden G, Patel AV & Armstrong N, Betaine distribution in the Scrophulariaceae and some previously included families, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 31, 359-365, 2003.