The department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry at SETCPD ensures to provide quality education to its students by imparting in depth knowledge for easy understanding of principles involved in Herbal Drug Science along with practical skills by training them on various techniques of standardization of crude drugs and their formulations. It also explores the chemistry of secondary metabolites from natural origin and their biological/pharmacological properties. The department has highly qualified staff members including two professors, one associate professor and five assistant professors. All the staff members are actively involved in research on various fields of natural products and published articles in national and international peer reviewed journals. The department has been sanctioned with research projects from various funding agencies. The department has successfully conducted national level seminars/conference on natural products.

FACILITIES IN THE DEPARTMENT

Department of Pharmacy Practice is collaborative with Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubli, which is a very well-known tertiary care teaching hospital recognized by Medical Council of India. The Department has well established drug information and patient counseling centre. It has standard software packages such as SPSS-20, GraphPad Prism for data analysis and Micromedex.