Dr. Aida Maryam Basri

Office | 1A.26
Phone | +673 2461020 Ext 1225  
Fax | +673 2461035/6
Email | aida.basri@utb.edu.bn

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Lecturer / Secretary of SASM Management Committee /  Year 1 BSc FST Coordinator / FST Examination Officer /  Coordinator of UTB Planning and Development Office (PDO)

Qualifications

  • PhD in Chemistry (University of Leeds, UK)
  • MSc in Instrumental and Analytical Methods in Biological and Environmental Chemistry (IAMBEC) (Warwick University, UK)
  • BSc (Hons) in Pharmaceutical Sciences with Law (University of Bradford, UK)

 

Career or Professional Bodies/Awards

 

  • 2018: Scientific and Editorial Board, International Conference on Natural Product and Bioresources Sciences (ICONPROBIOS 2018), Tangerang, Indonesia

 

  • 2015 – 2016: BRC Research Fellow at Herbal Drug Discovery Lab, Faculty of Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam for the project “Ex-situConservation, Biological and Phytochemical Studies of Flora of Brunei Darussalam”
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Current Teaching Module

  • SF1511: Introductory Chemistry for Food Science and Technology
  • SF1501: Research Methodology
  • SF2203: Food Quality and Flavour Sciences
  • SF2214: Food Chemistry
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Current Research and/or Postgraduate Projects

  • Plant-based antimicrobial food packaging
  • Nutritional analysis of Local Rice Flour
  • Development and Evaluation of Nutritional Local Fruit Jams

 

Research Interest

  • Study of Brunei medicinal plants as Functional Foods
  1. M. Basri, H. Taha, N. Ahmad, ‘A Review on Pharmacological Activities and Phytochemicals of Alpinia officinarum (Galangal) Extracts Derived from Bio-Assay Guided Fractionation and Isolation’, Pharmacognosy Reviews2017, 11(21), 43-56
  2. M. Basri, R. M. Lord, A. Rodríguez-Bárzano, F. D. Janeway, S. J. Lucas, C. M. Pask, R. M. Phillips and P. C. McGowan, ‘Picolinamide Ruthenium(III) dihalide complexes with a cis to trans isomer switch, triggering high potency and cancer cell selectivity’, Chemistry – A European Journal2017, 23(26), 6341-6356
  3. G. P. Yik, A. M. Basri, H. Yasin, H. Taha and N. Ahmad, ‘Ethnobotanical review and pharmacological properties of selected medicinal plants in Brunei Darussalam: Litsea ellipticaDillenia suffruticosaDillenia excelsaAidia racemosaVitex pinnataand Senna alata’Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine2017, 7(2), 173-180
  4. N. Diris, A. M. Basri, F. Metali, N. Ahmad and H. Taha, ‘Phytochemicals and Antimicrobial Activities of Melastoma malabathricumand Melastoma beccarianum leaf crude extracts’, Research Journal of Phytochemistry2017, 11(1), 35-41
  5. Aminuddin, A. M. Basri, H. Taha, A. M. Abidin, N. Ahmad, Antimicrobial activities of soap containing Senna alata leaf extract’, Scientia Bruneiana2016, 15, 44-47
  6. J. Lucas, R. M. Lord, A. M. Basri, R. M. Phillips, A. J. Blacker and P. C. McGowan, ‘Increasing Anti-Cancer Activity with Longer Tether Lengths of Group 9 Cp* Complexes’, Dalton Transactions2016,45, 6812-6815
  7. Rodríguez-Bárzano, R. M. Lord, A. M. Basri, R. M. Phillips, A. J. Blacker and P. C. McGowan, ‘Synthesis and anticancer activity evaluation of η5-C5(CH3)4R ruthenium complexes bearing chelating diphosphine ligands’, Dalton Transactions2015, 44, 3265-3270
  8. Almodares, S. J. Lucas, B. D. Crossley, A. M. Basri, C. M. Pask, A. J. Hebden, R. M. Phillips, and P. C. McGowan, ‘Rhodium, Iridium, and Ruthenium Half-Sandwich Picolinamide Complexes as Anticancer Agents’, Inorganic Chemistry2014, 53, 727-736

 

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