This course helps to learn and understand the knowledge of medicinal plants and their uses to socially diverse community which includes, the advances in the field of cultivation and isolation of drugs of natural origin, tissue culture techniques, various phytopharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and their medicinal uses and health benefits. Upon completion of the course, the student shall be able to know the different classes of phytoconstituents, their biosynthetic pathways, their properties, extraction and general process of natural product drug discovery, phytochemical fingerprinting and structure elucidation of phytoconstituents. The course also helps to understand the Industrial and commercial potential of drugs of natural origin, integrate traditional Indian systems of medicine with modern medicine and also to know regulatory and quality policy for the trade of herbals and drugs of natural origin.
Pass in the following examinations
The stakeholders after successful completion of the course shall get jobs in the pharmaceutical industries as herbal drug development authorities. They can become entrepreneurs in the development of herbal formulations including neutraceuticals and cosmetics. They have wide scope in the herbal drug research in the fields of isolation of lead markers, standardization of herbal formulations and also in academic institutions.
Fees : 2,00,000 / year