Specialization : Pharmacognosy
Pharmacognosy deals with scientific study of crude drugs from plants, animals, microbes and minerals. It includes quality control, standardization, isolation & characterization of phytoconstituents and formulation development. The Pharmacognosy specialization of the department provides instructional and research training to the students in the areas of isolation of phytoconstituents, formulation development & standardization of herbal drugs and evaluation of biological activity of medicinal plants. Apart from classical Pharmacognosy the division is now diversifying itself in the frontier areas of phytomedicine.
Research Focus:
The major areas of research being conducted under the Pharmacognosy specialization includes:
- Industrial Pharmacognosy
- Phytopharmaceutics,
- Ethnopharmacognosy, Phytochemistry
- Biological evaluation of Medicinal Plants
The details of research studies being conducted in the department are as follows:
- Drug discovery and lead generation from natural sources
- General quality control methods for crude drugs and protocol development for specific medicinal plant materials
- Development of chemical process/technologies for natural products involving extraction, isolation and quantification
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Development of formulation methods, standardization and stability studies of herbal drugs, herbominerals, nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals of natural origin
- Ayurvedic formulation development and standardization with novel approaches
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Biological evaluation and validation of medicinal plants in various therapeutic areas like antidiabetic, hypolipidemics, immunomodulatory, antioxidants, anti-gastric ulcer, wound healing, antidiarrheal, hepatoprotective, analgesic and anti-inflammatory.
Prospective newer dimensions of research and learning include:
- Plant DNA based molecular markers
- Nanophytomedicine
- Plant tissue culture and animal cell culture
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