eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal 0974-6242 2015-04-25 5 1 19 24 2187 article Muhammad Nor Omar 1 Nor Hazwani M. Hasali 1 Naik T. Khan 2 Syed Faraz Moin 2 Helmi Y. Alfarra 1 Department of Biotechnology, Kulliyyah of Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, (Malaysia) International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi (Pakistan). In recent years, artemisinin (1) has remained an effective drug to treat malaria. Numerous approaches have been adapted to increase the efficacy of (1) against antibiotic resistant malarial parasite. Microbial biotransformation of (1) has been used recently to produce promising derivatives of (1) on a large scale with low costs. During the last decade several biotransformation studies on (1), by using microorganisms, have been reported. This literature review focuses on the most recent microbial transformation studies on artemisinin and its derivatives. https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol5no1/biotechnological-transformation-of-artemisinin-toward-an-effective-anti-malaria-drug/ Artemisinin Malaria Biotransformation Microorganisms Hydroxylation