A number of students of Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Faculty of Pharmacy UGM have developed a herbal formula to cure wounds usually suffered by people with diabetes. The formula uses coffee extract.

It was Diana Octavirena Antaresty, Fakhri Husain, Maulana Supama Putra, Siti Hartinah and Giovani Oka Putra Caesar that developed the gel to cure diabetes wounds that are infected by bacteria. The medication is called as Roco Gel.

Team chairman, Diana, said the active substances in robusta coffee, which are cafffein and chlorogenic acid, have the potential to be used as anti-bacterial. Both can also speed up healing of the wound that is infected by Staphylococcus aureus resiten Methicillin (MRSA) bacteria. read more

Limited economic condition did not diminish Febriyanti Siahaan’s dream of studying at university. But her parents had to tell her to postpone her dreams and advised her to find a job instead after she passed high school. Who knows that Febri’s dream finally came true when she learned that she had been accepted at Faculty of Pharmacy UGM without even paying for tuition.

“I’ve always wanted to study at a higher education level, but my parents always said no, telling me that university was just for the haves. So, when I learned that I’d been admitted and didn’t even have to pay for tuitions, instantly I hugged my parents. I told them I could study at university for free,” said Febri when met at her home in Batu Aji, Batam City, on Monday (5/6). read more

Postgraduate students of Faculty of Pharmacy UGM introduce how to make traditional medicine to the residents of Kapencar village, Wonosobo regency, Central Java. The traditional medicine is made by using local plants that can be grown in the garden for household scale product.

Fadhil Rusyida, Pharmacy student, said that he and other 38 colleagues worked with Women Farmers Group in the village to explore the potential of medicinal plants and processed them into herbal medicinal products which can be produced on Student Extracurricular Units scale. “Two types of medicinal plants that we introduce are red ginger and okra,” Fadhil told reporters on Friday (27/5). read more