Bachir Benarba

Address:

Department of Biology,
Daculty of Sciences of Nature and Life,
Pole Sidi Said, Mascara (29000), Algeria,
Algeria.

Research Interests:

Flow Cytometry, Natural Product Chemistry, Antioxidant Activity, Extraction, Chromatography

Biography:

• Bachir Benarba, PhD, is Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the department of Biology, University of Mascara, Algeria. 
• He’s the chief of this department since October 2013. 
• He was Technical Director of international project with “Centro de Estudios Rurales Y y de Agricultura Internacional, Spain. Dr Bachir Benarba works on identification of Algerian plants used in the treatment of cancer. 
• He identified two Algerian plants with strong anticancer and apoptogenic activity, and clarified the molecular mechanism of these activities. 
• He carries out also ethnobotanical studies in different regions of Algeria. 
• He manages a research project named “Valorization and identification of new anticancer active molecules from Aristolochia longa. 
• He is the author of many technical and vulgarization documents on cancer.
• He has reviewed and published many international articles. 
• He also advised more than 40 master and other dissertation’s degrees.

Publications:

• An ethnobotanical study of the traditional uses of medicinal and aromatic plants of the regions of Relizane (North-West Algeria)
• Impact of pulsed electric field treatment for extracting essential oil from Mentha Spicata L.
• Spontaneous medicinal plants used by the population of Ain Sefra province (Southwest Algeria): An ethnobotanical study
• Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers in Algeria: A Multiregional Ethnobotanical Study