Pharmacognosy is a specific discipline, which deals with versatile studies of the drug and auxiliary substances of biological origin like Plants, Animals & Minerals. This subject provides information about procedure used in manufacturing of materials of natural origin, extraction, isolation, purification of medicinal substances, design and development of herbal formulations and quality control. The Department of Pharmacognosy provides necessary facilities for the development herbal products, herbal product standardization and characterization. The departmental laboratories equipped with modern and   sophisticated instruments and recently enriched with the addition of HPTLC. The faculty members have excellent academic credentials and are continuously involved in research activities, as result, more than 100 publications in the journal of national and international repute with good impact factor. Our faculty members serve on the editorial boards of national and international journals, review research articles for journals on a regular basis. The department has received the research grant of Rs. 25,00,000/- from SPPU, Pune and AICTE, New Delhi. We have a herbal garden within the campus with more than 80 species of important medicinal and aromatic plants. It gives me immense pleasure to welcome all in the very interesting department where inventions of new lead medicinal moiety are happening.

Dr. Rasika D. Bhalke

Professor, Sanjivani college of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Kopargaon