UNAIR NEWS “51¶¯Âþ has just inaugurated new professors.This time the professors came from the same faculty.They are Prof. Dr. Suharjono, M.S., Apt.; Prof. Dr. Suko Hardjono, M.S., Apt.; and Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fu™ad, M.S., Apt. All three are professors from the Faculty of Pharmacy UNAIR.Despite coming from the same faculty, the three professors have different fields of study.
All three were inaugurated by the Rector of UNAIR Prof. Dr. Moh. Nasih, SE., MT., Ak., CMA., in Garuda Mukti Hall on Thursday, December 28. In his speech, Prof.Nasih emphasized that the professors should be able to implement their role as the spearhead of innovation and science development as the development of innovation and science is one form of implementation of UNAIR™s vision and missions.
“We hope that vision and missions of UNAIR can be implemented by these three newly-inaugurated professors,”said Prof.Nasih.
Furthermore, regarding the three professors graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1980, Prof.Nasih reiterated that the professors are expected to contribute more in pharmaceutical science.As UNAIR is one of the leading universities in the field of pharmaceutical science in Indonesia.
“The development of pharmaceutical science is one of UNAIR™s excellences.Therefore, these new professors should show their useful works for the community, “he said.
Ideas of Professors
As the first professor who presented the oration, Prof.Suharjono delivered the oration that was related to the study of polypharmacy. Polypharmacy is the use of more than one type of drugs simultaneously.It refers to the phenomenon of various diseases that occur to degenerative disease patients such as diseases that damage the tissues or organs of the body like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure, and osteoporosis.
“The use of more than one drug is aimed to avoid the dominance of one drug and to complement the other especially as an effort to reduce the risk of acute illness, “explained the 20th active professor of the Faculty of Pharmacy UNAIR.
The next oration was presented by Prof.Suko Harjono.The 21st active professor of Faculty of Pharmacy™s oration title was “The Role of Medicinal Chemistry in the Development of Anticancer Drugs”.According to Prof.Suko, in the field of pharmaceutical science, medical chemistry is a branch of chemistry and biology. It plays an important role in explaining the mechanism of drug action.Medicinal chemistry, he explained, works for drug development such as to develop new drugs with better activity such as minimal side effects, more selective work, and longer effectiveness.
“Indonesia can improve the role of medicinal chemistry in drug development because it has many advantages.One of them, numerous active compounds that can be obtained from nature, semi synthesis and synthesis, “said Suko.
Finally, the last oration was delivered by Prof.Ahmad Fuad.Through an oration entitled “Revealing the Diversity of Chemical Content and Bioactivity in Natural Medicine” the 22nd active Professor of Faculty of Pharmacy stated that Indonesia was blessed by Allah SWT as the second country with most natural diversity in the world.Therefore, Prof. Fuad, is certain that Indonesia has resources of natural ingredients beneficial for the treatment of diseases in large quantities.
“Wealth of natural resources that we have, and supported by the excellent human resources capable of exploring natural materials to be a product of the pharmaceutical industry, will make this nation a healthy and efficient nation,” he said.
Author:UNAIR NEWSTeam
Editor: Feri Fenoria
