Dengue fever, an acute arthropod borne febrile disease, infects 50-100 million people annually. Indonesia is ranked second out of thirty endemic Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) countries from 2004-2010. According to Indonesia’s ministry of health, there are 60,296 cases of dengue fever up until April 2024 resulting in 455 deaths.The high infectivity rate and unavailability of drugs that hav…
i3L is a life science higher education and research institute in Jakarta, Indonesia. Their Pharmacy department in the School for Life Sciences provides research project opportunities for students. This project aims to do phytochemical characterization of Marchantia paleacea, Pogonatum neesii, and Litsea oppositifolia extracts as a preliminary study for two bigger projects that aims to inves…
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virulent source of the COVID-19 disease. As a result of the rapid transmission of the viral agent and deficiency of specific drugs against the virus, a worldwide pandemic ensued with a terrifying death toll. Thus there is tremendous urgency to discover substances for the development of specific COVID-19 drugs. With in…