Department
The Department of Pharmacognosy is dedicated to natural and herbal medicinal product research in pharmaceutical sciences. This department deals with the study of biology, chemistry, biochemistry, taxonomy, and ethnobiology of natural products obtained from plant, animal, marine, and other life origins.
We use interdisciplinary approaches to identify, analyse, and purify multi-component mixtures from plant, fungal, or marine sources focusing on the characterization of their bioactive secondary metabolites.
Pharmacognosy has undergone significant change in recent years and today represents a highly interdisciplinary science, which is one of the major pillars of Pharmaceutical education.
Areas of active interest include natural products chemistry, isolation, characterization and biological studies of phytoconstituents using animal models, herbal cosmetics, novel herbal formulations, and their standardization.
Specialized learning and research in medicinal plants and natural products.
Study of crude drugs, medicinal plants, and herbal medicines.
Extraction, isolation, and characterization of phytoconstituents.
Development and standardization of herbal formulations and cosmetics.
Research on natural bioactive compounds and drug discovery.