Dr Barbara Pendry
Principal Lecturer
Lecturer
Medicines Research Group
Department of Bioscience , School Of Health, Sport And Bioscience
Barbara is a principal lecturer and programme leader for BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Science.
Areas Of Interest
- Antioxidant activity of medicinal plants particularly in relation to their propensity to inhibit lipid peroxidation.
- Analysis of herbal medicines and plant materials in regard to quality control, efficacy and safety
- Materia Medica and herbal therapeutics
- Botanical treatment of cancer
- Mental health - psychiatric disorders and the pharmacological treatment of mental illness.
OVERVIEW
Dr Pendry is an herbal medicine practitioner with a PhD in Phytotherapy involving the investigation and identification of antioxidant activity in a small selection of medicinal plants traditionally used in the treatment of chronic age-related diseases. Her particular interest in the treatment of cancer with complementary therapies and mental health has evolved from her previous work as a practitioner with Barnet Cancer Care and as a mental health act manager for Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust and latterly Cornerstone House, a service providing a rehabilitation and recovery service for those people from a mental illness. At UEL she has responsibility for the leadership of the BSc in Pharmaceutical Science, and was formerly programme leader for Herbal Medicine.
Dr Pendry is a member of the Medicines Research Group at UEL whose current focus is quality assessment and drug discovery potential for natural products related to public health promotion and disease presentation in emerging and developed economies. The issues related to the problems of antimicrobial resistance are of particular interest and Dr Pendry has presented at two workshops in India (funded by the British Council) and Bangladesh (funded by the GCRF fund) to highlight the problems of antimicrobial resistance and discuss the challenges for the development of novel antimicrobial agents from Ayurvedic medicinal plants.
She is a member of the government's Herbal Medicine Advisory Committee (HMAC) and Editor-In Chief of the Journal of Herbal Medicine.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Active member of the Medicines Research Group (MRG) which embraces research across a wide range of biomedical issues concerning the safety and efficacy of medicines: phytomedicines, nutritional medicine and pharmaceuticals.
Current activities include:
- Editor-in-chief of the Elsevier Journal 'Journal of Herbal Medicine'
- Phytochemical analysis of a range of herbal medicines prescribed by herbalists to assess quality.
- Collaboration with the West African Health Organisation to assist in the development and the use of herbal medicines in healthcare particularly in the development of quality control testing for herbal products and a pharmacopoeia for traditional herbal medicinal plants for a largely uncontrolled market in West Africa.
- Research related to the search for plants to combat antimicrobial resistance plus the use of antibiotics in third world countries contributing to this global threat
- Research on peer-led drug and alcohol services
- Herbal practice related issues such as the use of the restricted Schedule 20 herbs
- PhD/MSc supervision of a variety of medicinal plant related projects
- Dissertation supervisor for undergraduate/postgraduate bioscience students of herbal medicine, pharmacology, pharmaceutical science and biomedical science.
- Internal examiner (UEL)/ External examiner for several PhD theses.
TEACHING
Formally Program leader with overall responsibility for BSc Herbal Medicine and open access herbal medicine clinic (Stratford Centre for Herbal Medicine) latterly Program leader BSc Pharmaceutical Science. Teaching across all BSc and MSc bioscience programs particularly pharmaceutical science; Pharmaceutics and natural product discovery, and a variety of pharmacology modules. BSc/MSc dissertation supervisor.
External examiner for the Herbal Sciences degree, The Open University.
Panel member for the Periodic review School of Health, University of Central Lancashire.
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- Simple and effective method for the extraction of silymarin from Silybum marianum (L.) gaertner seeds Journal of Herbal Medicine. 37 (Art.100619). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hermed.2022.100619
- Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) as a prophylaxis for urinary tract infections in women: A systematic review with meta-analysis Journal of Herbal Medicine. 36 (Art. 100602). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hermed.2022.100602
- COVID-19 and herbal practice: A United Kingdom practitioner survey Advances in Integrative Medicine. 8 (4), pp. 256-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aimed.2021.09.003
- Medicinal plants used to treat infectious diseases in the central part and a northern district of Bangladesh - an ethnopharmacological perception Journal of Herbal Medicine. 29 (Art. 100484). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hermed.2021.100484
- Jigsaw Recovery: The Spatio-temporalities of Alcohol Abuse and Recovery in a Non-interventionist, Peer-led Service Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. 38 (2), pp. 165-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/07347324.2019.1686960
- Terpenes from Zingiber montanum and Their Screening against Multi-Drug Resistant and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Molecules. 24 (3), p. Art. 385. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24030385
