Medicinal Natural Products: A Disease-Focused Approach

Prof Satyajit Sarker, the Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemical Analysis, and the former President of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (2018-20), is the Director of School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University. He has recently been awarded with an Honorary Professorship at the University of East Anglia (2020-24). He obtained BPharm (Hons) and MPharm degrees from Dhaka University, and completed his PhD in Phytochemistry from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. His research focuses on anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antimicrobial, chemopreventive and wound-healing properties of phytochemicals. Prof Sarker is in the Editorial Board of >35 international journals. Dr Lutfun Nahar, Chemistry honors graduate from Exeter University, obtained her PhD in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry from Aberdeen University. She is the Managing Editor of Phytochemical Analysis, a reviewer of 30 international journals, and in the Editorial Board of 15 international journals. She has published 360 scientific papers, reviews, books and book chapters in the area of Synthetic Organic Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry. Her research interest includes several aspects of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry.

• 1. Medicinal natural products - An introductionLutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker2. Anticancer natural productsSatyajit D Sarker, Lutfun Nahar, Anca Miron and Mingquan Guo3. Antimicrobial natural productsMukhlesur Rahman and Satyajit D Sarker4. Antiparasitic natural productsFyaz M D Ismail, Lutfun Nahar, Kalin Y Zhang and Satyajit D Sarker5. Anti-inflammatory natural productsOlumayokun A Olajide and Satyajit D Sarker6. Neuroprotective natural productsSubrata Das, Lutfun Nahar, Rajat Nath, Deepa Nath, Satyajit D Sarker and Anupam Das Talukdar7. Hepatoprotective natural productsSitesh C Bachar, Ritesh Bachar, Rownak Jahan and Mohammed Rahmatullah8. Nephroprotective natural productsEmil Jivishov, Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker9. Cancer chemopreventive natural productsKenneth J Ritchie and Satyajit D Sarker10. Antipsoriatic natural productsAnca Miron, Lutfun Nahar, Elvira Gille and Satyajit D Sarker11. Medicinal natural products in osteoporosisDidem Sohretoglu and Gulin Renda12. Antidiabetic natural productsPulok K Mukherjee, Amit Kar, Subhadip Banerjee and C.K. Katiyar13. Anti-obesity natural productsAditya Arya, Lutfun Nahar, Hidayat Ullah Khan and Satyajit D Sarker14. Analgesic and antipyretic natural productsJamil A Shilpi and Shaikh Jamal Uddin15. Fertility regulating natural productsSushmita Nath, Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D Sarker16. Antipsychotic natural productsKrystyna Skalicka-Woźniak and Jürg Gertsch