Syahida Ahmad
UPM, MALAYSIA
Biography
Syahida Ahmad is a Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She received her Ph.D. in Drug Discovery at UPM in 2006. Her fields of studies are biochemistry, animal cell biotechnology and natural products biochemistry. Her current research project is focused on the mechanism of action of potential therapeutic compounds, which are chemically synthesized or isolated from natural products on cellular model of pigmentation disorders (e.g psoriasis) or chronic inflammatory diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, osteorthritis and Alzheimer’s disease). For the past 10 years she has developed simple bioassays to screen for anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and depigmenting activities using animal cell lines. Currently, she is developing a fast and cheap toxicity assay using zebrafish embryo as an animal model under a trade name of Danio AssayTM. Since graduated until present she had published more than 30 papers in the international journals either as corresponding or co-author.