Ready for Thesis in 2024
The activity that the students of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Airlangga University (FF UNAIR) have been waiting for is now back. Ready for Thesis is present as a forum provided by BEM FF UNAIR to help Bachelor of Pharmacy students, especially final semester students, to determine their choice of KBK for their thesis. Thesis Ready comes with a presentation about the lecturer's research and projects as well as a presentation about the research that will be carried out.
"We are ready to submit this thesis because many of our friends who registered for the thesis just went along with it. His friends signed up for KBK Pharmaceutical Chemistry, they also joined KBK for Pharmaceutical Chemistry without knowing what passion they were actually looking for or without knowing what they were actually doing, anyway, they just went along. "Finally, there were many obstacles experienced while carrying out the thesis," explained Mr. Apt. Firmansyah Ardian Ramadhani, S.Farm, M.Farm., as Deputy Dean I in opening the Thesis Ready event this time.
Thesis Ready will be held online on March 2 2024, with the topic KBK Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Two lecturers were invited as resource persons for this activity, namely Mrs. apt. Diajeng Putri Paramita, S.Farm., M.Si. and Prof. Dr. apt. Juni Ekowati, M.Si. There are two research groups in the Pharmaceutical Chemistry KBK, namely the Analytical Development Group and the Drugs Development Group, both of which are based on the Pharmaceutical Analysis and Medicinal Chemistry and Synthesis courses.
The Pharmaceutical Analysis research group has coverage in developing analysis which includes method validation and verification. This aims to develop newer, simpler, faster and more sensitive methods that are validated. There are several instruments used, for example FTIR, AAS, UV-Vis Spectrophotometry, TLC-Spectrodensitometry, GC-FID, Headspace GC-MS, HPLC, and LC-MS/MS. Students who carry out research are not only at MPL 3, but also at UNAIR ULP (Testing Services Unit).
Then, the Drug Development Group Research group has two main focuses, namely medicinal and synthetic. Medicinal chemistry focuses on computationally testing the activity levels of active drug ingredients. Meanwhile, synthetic chemistry focuses on the effective and efficient formation of active drug compounds.
There are three types of research carried out at KBK Pharmaceutical Chemistry, namely wet lab which works directly in the lab with chemicals, dry lab which uses software for modeling, and a combination wet-dry lab.
The following is the flow for registering a thesis:
- Contact the lecturer concerned.
- Register your thesis via cybercampus.
- Fill out the form from cybercampus.
- Collect completed forms.
- Forms are processed in the department, and
- Announcement of supervising lecturers.
When students carry out their thesis, they must have chemistry with their supervisor. Therefore, it is important to contact the lecturer first.
"The most important thing is that if you don't feel strong enough, look for something that suits your capacity. "Then the most important thing is that the undergraduate students themselves carry out the procedures correctly. If there is a problem, that's okay, immediately come forward so that a solution can be provided," said Mrs. Apt. Diajeng Putri Paramita.
"Choose a supervisor who is suitable and keeps you motivated. Choosing a supervisor is like choosing a boarding house that makes you comfortable," advised Mrs. Apt. Diajeng Putri Paramita.
There are no elective courses that must be taken or special requirements if you want to take a thesis at KBK Pharmaceutical Chemistry, but there are several courses that can be taken to support a student's thesis.
In the Thesis Ready activity there were also students, Julian Dwi Susanto (2020) and Thalia Vanessa H. (2020), who also shared their experiences regarding their thesis at KBK Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Both used ferulic acid derivatives in research which then carried out predictions of activity in the human body, reaction processes, and analysis of the resulting compounds. "For a thesis in the field of synthesis, I suggest you take courses in Drug Design and Introduction to Drug Synthesis which are not taught in detail in regular lectures," said Ms. Thalia.
For a thesis in a KBK there must be advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of a thesis at KBK Pharmaceutical Chemistry is that students have the opportunity to create new compounds, the opportunity to publish very large scientific articles, and it is very suitable for those who like to interact with research tools/instruments. Then, one of the disadvantages of taking a thesis in Pharmaceutical Chemistry is that it will require students to work very often in the laboratory.
Writer: Josephine Hoo (2022)
Editor: Nabila (2022) and FF UNAIR Public Relations Team
