Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications    

BSc, PhD, MRPharmS, MILT

Internal memberships / posts

Science Faculty Timetable Co-ordinator; Course Leader for MPharm (Hons),
Course Leaders Committee; Common Learning Management Forum (Inter Professional learning); University Quality Assurance Committee, Chair of Unit Assessment Board and Assessment Approval Committee

External memberships / posts

General Pharmaceutical Council, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Academic Pharmacy Group RPSGB and Higher Education Academy.

Key teaching responsibilities  

Level 3:  Natural products, physical properties of drugs of natural origin; methods of isolation and evaluation; topics include: volatile oils, fixed oils, carbohydrates, organised and unorganised drugs, alkaloids, glycosides, phenolic derivatives, lignans, plant and mushroom poisons; overview of phytotherapy; crop protection; phytochemical investigations, methods of isolation and spectroscopic identification.
Level M: Research methods, bioassays, drug design, mechanism-based enzyme inhibition.

Key research interests

Natural products, phytochemistry, biologically active compounds and application of spectroscopic techniques (NMR and MS), Postgraduate students currently supervised include 2 PhD, Key research grants obtained in the last five years include Higher Education -British Council Joint Education Links and Canadian Phytopharmaceutical Company Grant for part time PhD Program of study.

Recent Publications*

More recent publications

*Please note that in publications, Asmita Sautreau goes by the name Asmita Patel.