Department of Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry is one of the oldest Departments existing from
the day of the inception of the Institute in 1917. Since then the Department
has come a long way and taken up newer and advance research in multidisciplinary
area of Chemistry. The present faculty strength of the department is nine
and a few more are expected to join soon. At present, the department is actively
engaged in research in the fields of natural products and synthetic organic
chemistry, bioactive compounds from natural sources, biochemical and biophysical
aspects of proteins and macromolecules, membrane biology, drug targets, chemistry
and biochemistry of lipids, intracellular transport, cell signaling etc.
Specific goals and objectives of the Department
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To develop therapeutic agents for arthritis, eye disorders and cancer
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To search for antidiabetic and antihepatoxic agents from plants
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To identify the anthilmintic principle (s) of well known medicinal plants
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Molecular Characterization of drug targets and drug resistance mechanism
in mycobateria
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To elucidate the mechanism of b - lactam resistance in Shigella
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Molecular analysis of the association of membrane proteins of the human
erythrocyte and the role of protein palmitoylation in modulating these associations
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Modulation of ion-transporting enzymes by drugs, endogenous regulators
and protein kinase (s)
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Molecular chaperones in folding of globular proteins and to understand
the structural and conformational basis of chaperone function
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Development of molecular theory of the smectic C state of matter and
used continum theories to account for the phase transition involved in F-
actin