Dr Wern Chai (Brian Chia)

Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences

City West Campus (HB6-18)
tel +61 8 830 20673

email Wern.Chai@unisa.edu.au

Research

Research focus

Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Biological Sciences
Chemical Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences
Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry

Highlights

Drug discovery and drug development of novel antimicrobial agents targeting resistant pathogens.

Expanding the roles of community pharmacist in practice.

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Chai, WC, Whittall, JJ, Polyak, SW, Foo, K, Li, X, Dutschke, CJ, Ogunniyi, AD, Ma, S, Sykes, MJ, Semple, SJ & Venter, H 2022, 'Cinnamaldehyde derivatives act as antimicrobial agents against Acinetobacter baumannii through the inhibition of cell division', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 13, article no. 967949, pp. 1-13. Open access
2021	Hu, S, Chai, WC, Xu, L, Li, S, Jin, C, Zhu, R, Yang, L, Zhang, R, Tang, K, Li, P, Yang, E, Chang, W, Shen, T, Semple, S, Venter, H & Xiang, L 2021, 'Catecholic alkaloid sulfonates and aromatic nitro compounds from Portulaca oleracea and screening of their anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial activities', Phytochemistry: The International Journal of Plant Chemistry, Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, vol. 181, article no. 112587, pp. 1-11. 3 3 1
2021	Li, P, Chai, WC, Wang, Z-Y, Tang, KJ, Chen, JY, Venter, H, Semple, SJ & Xiang, L 2021, 'Bioactivity-guided isolation of compounds from Sophora flavescens with antibacterial activity against Acinetobacter baumannii', Natural Product Research, vol. 36, no. 17, pp. 4340-4348. 2 3 1
2020	Chai, WC, Whittall, JJ, Song, D, Polyak, SW, Ogunniyi, AD, Wang, Y, Bi, F, Ma, S, Semple, SJ & Venter, H 2020, 'Antimicrobial action and reversal of resistance in mrsa by difluorobenzamide derivatives targeted at ftsz', Antibiotics, vol. 9, no. 12, article no. 873, pp. 1-22. Open access 5 5 2
2017	Arzanlou, M, Chai, WC & Venter, H 2017, 'Intrinsic, adaptive and acquired antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria', Essays in Biochemistry, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 49-59. 76 79 38
2017	Wang, Y, Cong, C, Chai, WC, Dong, R, Jia, L, Song, D, Zhou, Z & Ma, S 2017, 'Synthesis and antibacterial activity of novel 4″-O-(1-aralkyl-1,2,3-triazol-4-methyl-carbamoyl) azithromycin analogs', Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 27, no. 16, pp. 3872-3877. 9 9 1

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Ardabil University of Medical Sciences	IRAN
Maternity and Child Care Centre of Jinan	CHINA
Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention	CHINA
Shandong University	CHINA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
Zaozhuang University	CHINA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Member Professional Compounding Chemist of Australia	2021
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2021
Member, Early Career Working Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT)	2021
Member, Evaluation Network Therapeutic Guidelines : Antibiotics	2021
Member Professional Compounding Chemist of Australia	2020
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2020
Member, Early Career Working Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT)	2020
Member, Evaluation Network Therapeutic Guidelines : Antibiotics	2020
Member Australian Society for Medical Research	2019
Member Professional Compounding Chemist of Australia	2019
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2019
Member, Early Career Working Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT)	2019
Member Australian Society for Medical Research	2018
Member Professional Compounding Chemist of Australia	2018
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2018
Member, Early Career Working Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT)	2018
Member Professional Compounding Chemist of Australia	2017
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2017
Member, Early Career Working Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT)	2017
Member Professional Compounding Chemist of Australia	2016
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2016
Member, Early Career Working Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT)	2016
Best Young Researcher Applied Microbiology Student's Competition, OMICS International	2015
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2015
Member, Early Career Working Group Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT)	2015
Member Australian Society for Microbiology	2014

Other

Subject Matters Expert (Examinations), Australian Pharmacy Council

Member of the Evaluation Network, Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotics

Early Career Pharmacist Working Group, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (SA/NT Branch)

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