Established in 1992, the Department of
Pharmacognosy is a recognized research centre
for M.Pharm and Ph.D. programme under Rajiv
Gandhi University of Health Sciences,
Karnataka.
The infrastructure of the Department
includes state-of-the-art laboratories with all the
facilities for isolation, characterization and
estimation of phyto-constitutents including
HPTLC. The Department is also well equipped
to carry out tissue culture studies.
The Department has various collaborative
projects with different organizations for R & D
such as:
 Natural Remedies |
| Sami Labs |
| Indian Institute of Horticultural Research
(IIHR) |
| Foundation of Revitalisation of Local Health
Traditions (FRLHT) |
| Industrial projects are taken up by M.Pharm
students at the Department, which include: |
 Isolation and characterization of marker
compounds from different plants |
| Quantification of marker compounds |
| Phytochemical investigations |
| Bioactivity guided isolation etc. |
| Screening of plants for different
biological activities |
| HPTLC analysis of active constituents |
| Tissue culture studies |
The facilities available at the Department
have been utilized by research scholars
from other institutes as well as by
candidates pursuing MD in allied medical
sciences. |
