Mission

 

 

Vision and Mission

The vision of the Department of Pharmacognosy is to prepare a study program that is in line with the most recent developments in the field and produce graduates who could meet the national and international needs in health care. Those enrolled under various programs will study the following topics:

  • Natural product chemistry deals with the study of natural products, their extraction and isolation methods, structure elucidation
  • Pharmacology of natural product relates to the biological activity of crude drugs, isolated compounds and their toxicities
  • Ethanopharmedicine/Ethnopharmacologyis the subject that deals with the traditional medicine practices by different ethnic groups and indigenous people. It relates to traditional medicine, ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, anthropology.
  • Marine Pharmacognosy

Pakistan’s diverse and plentiful marine resources are the most promising avenue for future drug development. It deals with the study of unique chemical composition of marine plants and animals and their biological activity and pharmaceutical value.

  • Biologics is the study of sources, structures, preparation, description and uses of vaccines, toxins, antitoxins, venoms, antivenins, antisera and etc.
  • Allergens an Allergenic Preparations is the topic that describe various types of allergens and the development and preparation of vaccines used for their treatment.
  • Biosynthesis describes the various mechanisms through which plants prepare their primary and secondary metabolites, chemotaxonomy and how these pathways can be used to develop synthetic and semisynthetic analogues of natural products.
  • Quality Control/Quality Assurance Under this subject physical, chemical, and biological methods of analysis are studied to ensure the quality of crude drugs, plant extracts, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals.
  • Standardization methods are developed to produce standardized extracts of plants and other natural resources.
  • Biotechnology deals with methods for sustainable production of medicinally important natural products to meet the market requirement
The current trend and advancements are incorporated from time to time in board of studies and are made part of the syllabus