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DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOGNOSY

• The department involves in various research activities like authentication of medicinal plants, standardization of herbal drugs, isolation and evaluation of therapeutically important phytoconstituents, histochemical studies, isolation, formulation and evaluation of volatile components and characterization of such isolated compounds.
  
• Faculty members have been attending various seminars, workshops and conferences both National and International. They have also been presenting and publishing their research findings in referred National / International journals.
  
• The department has received various grants from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi under Research and Development Programme, Tamil Nadu Pharmaceutical Sciences Welfare Trust (TNPSWT), Chennai, Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST), Chennai.
  
• The department organized many State level Workshops and Staff Development Programme (SDP) sponsored by the AICTE, New Delhi.
  
• The department maintains a Herbal conservation area (1 acre) having 150 species of medicinal plants & Herbal museum with a display of crude drugs. Herbarium & photographs of rare medicinal plants to promote herbal research.
  
• The department has published 56 articles & presented 76 research findings in National & International journals, Conferences, Symposia etc.,