I. National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), University of Mississippi, US.

Natural products offer a vast and virtually unlimited source of new agents for both the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. The National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) was created to bring together an alliance of academia, government, and the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries to integrate research, development, and commercialization of potentially useful natural products. It is the nation’s only university-affiliated research center devoted to improving human health and agricultural productivity through the discovery, development, and commercialization of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals derived from natural products. The NCNPR conducts basic and applied multidisciplinary research to discover and develop natural products for use as pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements and agrochemicals, to understand the biological and chemical properties of medicinal plants, and to provide leadership in natural products research. Research is also conducted on medicinal plants so that they may be developed as crops for U.S. farmers... more

Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)

The Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy (ISM&H) was set-up in December,1995 and re-named as Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha andHomoeopathy (AYUSH) in November, 2003 with a view to providing focused attention to development of Education & Research in Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy systems. The Department continues to lay emphasis on promotion of Indian Systems of Medicine upgradation of AYUSH educational standards, quality control and standardization of drugs, improving the availability of medicinal plant material, research and development and awareness generation about the efficacy of the systems domestically and internationally ... more

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), Jammu

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu (formerly RRL, Jammu) a constituent unit of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, is one of the premier Institutes engaged in two major areas of research namely, Drug Design and Development and Microbial Biotechnology. However, overall aim of this Institute is to boost the industrial development of the North Western region of the country. The Laboratory was established in 1941 as a low key research and production centre known as Drug Research Laboratory of J&K State and was later on taken over by the CSIR in December 1957. The Institute was lucky to have Col. Sir Ram Nath Chopra, Prof. of Pharmacology as its Founder Director who was an outstanding luminary in the field of Medical Education and Research and has been widely acclaimed as the Father of Indian Pharmacology ... more