Rate My Professor Borkwei Ed Nignpense

Dr. Borkwei Ed Nignpense is an accredited medical laboratory scientist and Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University, located at the Gold Coast campus (B7.49). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours from Charles Sturt University, as well as a Bachelor of Biomedical Science from the University of Tasmania. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Nignpense worked as a researcher at Dorevitch Pathology in Melbourne, where he conducted tests in haematology, transfusion science, biochemistry, and microbiology for SouthWest Healthcare Warrnambool hospital and outpatients. He also served as a sessional academic in medical laboratory science at Charles Sturt University. Currently, he acts as a unit assessor for subjects including Haematology II, Transfusion Science, and Integrated Pathology. Dr. Nignpense is an active full professional member of the Australian Institute of Medical Scientists (AIMS), serving on the AIMS Queensland Branch committee, and is a member of the Haemostasis & Thrombosis Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Nignpense's research focuses on the bioavailability, bioaccessibility, and medicinal effects of bioactive compounds in natural products, particularly polyphenols. His Honours dissertation examined the potential of polyphenols as natural antioxidants to modulate platelet function, microparticle generation, and cardiovascular biomarkers. His PhD research expanded this to investigate polyphenol bioaccessibility and bioavailability through in vitro cellular models and human trials, providing insights into their roles in gastrointestinal health, inflammation, oxidative stress, and allergic responses. Integrating immunology, haematology, and biochemistry, his work evaluates the efficacy of medicinal plant-based compounds, with applications in developing dietary supplements and functional foods to prevent or manage chronic inflammatory conditions. His research contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals and has resulted in a track record of Q1 publications, including "Bioaccessibility and Bioactivity of Cereal Polyphenols: A Review" (2021), "Polyphenols: Modulators of Platelet Function and Platelet Microparticle Generation?" (2019), "The bioavailability of polyphenols following acute consumption of pigmented barley and wheat" (2024), "The effect of in vitro digestion on the anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of purple rice and purple barley phenolic extracts in Caco-2 and RBL-2H3 cells" (2024), and "Effect of gastrointestinal digestion on the stability, antioxidant activity, and Caco-2 cellular transport of pigmented grain polyphenols" (2024).