The Department of Pharmacognosy of Senghundhar college of Pharmacy was established in 2017 with the introduction of undergraduate Program B. Pharmacy.
The strength of the department lies in its modern labs, sophisticated instruments and high quality research output. The department maintains active research groups for carrying out collaborative and interdisciplinary research.
We are motivated to instill the skill sets that the students are expected to possess in the competitive arena of Pharmaceutical education, research and industry.
Our department has advanced facilities, well-equipped laboratories, museum as well as medicinal plant garden for better understanding related to the subjects. Our domain expertise includes subjects like, Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Herbal Drug Technology, Quality Control and Standardization of Herbals, Plant Tissue Culture and Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals.
Our faculty members are devoted to cultivating a learning environment conducive for overall development of students. We utilize innovative pedagogical practices state-of-the-art facilities to provide a supportive learning experience to the students. Our faculty members are also actively involved in research in areas such as isolation, extraction and standardization of herbal drugs and medicinal plant biotechnology. We encourage students to take up research projects.
The institute has developed a medicinal plant garden in the institutional campus.The medicinal plant garden has around 200 species of the medicinal plants.
A Museum is available with a number of specimens like medicinal plant photos, Histological charts, Models, Crude drug and different herbal formulations. We have about 200 crude drugs at our museum.
