Lecturer of Industrial Chemical Engineering Technology Study Program (S.Tr. TRKI) Vocational College Diponegoro University (UNDIP) Mohamad Endy Yulianto, S.T., M.T. received the Most Granted 2021 Patent Owner Lecturer award at Undip with a total of 22 patents. This patent consists of 3 intellectual property rights with the status of ordinary patents, 18 simple patents and 1 copyright.
One of the patents that is currently the focus of his research with the team is entitled “Development of Shogaol Ginger Nano Products as Anticancer through UV-Photoextraction Technique with Subcritical Water”. This research was driven by his concern over the high cost of chemotherapy that must be borne by cancer patients in Indonesia. Besides being expensive, the chemotherapy process also usually has side effects for the patient.
From the results of his study he found research results stating that bioactive components such as 6-shogaol in ginger effectively inhibit cancer cells so that it can be an alternative cancer treatment sourced from natural ingredients and is expected to minimize side effects that usually suffer from chemotherapy patients. In addition, ginger is a spice plant that thrives in Indonesia so that it can provide affordable cancer treatment for the community.
However, the cancer treatment process using 6-shogaol compounds in ginger has weaknesses in oral absorption, stability, and low bioavailability. Therefore, it is necessary to process a high efficient UV-photoextraction system using a subcritical water solvent in the manufacture of nano shogaol to provide optimal results on the use of ginger as an anticancer. This method has many advantages, including non-toxic solvents, easy to obtain, abundant availability, high purity, can be recycled and easy to handle. This method does not use alcohol as a solvent so that it can meet the needs of the Indonesian people for halal products.
“The production of nano shogaol in ginger is one of the efforts to increase the nation’s independence in fulfilling highly competitive drugs and medicinal raw materials. The production of extracts of active ginger compounds is able to increase product prices up to 80.8 times higher than when sold in the form of ginger rhizomes,” he said.
This research on ginger as an anticancer was funded by the Directorate of Research and Community Service, Directorate General of Research and Development of the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education for a research period of 3 years, from 2020 – 2022. In the second year of this research has been able to produce nano shogaol Ginger as an anticancer that leads to well-proven technology based on zero waste.
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