Department of Pharmacognosy

The Pharmacognosy Department deals with the evaluation and investigation of pharmaceutical raw materials from natural sources. Its scope includes from sourcing, extraction and isolation, purification using phytochemical techniques, ethnobotany, for phytotherapeutics among others. Main mandate of the department is to provide academic training in accordance with the latest scientific and technological advances accompanied by on hands experimental and practical (laboratory) applications.

Pharmacognosy is under the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and also offers MSc and PhD programmes in the Graduate School of Health Sciences. During the postgraduate education, students are expected to strictly follow ethical principles in their theoretical and practical scientific work as well as practices.

Pharmacognosy Department is among the most active, well equipped academic entity of Anadolu University, Faculty of Pharmacy with high reputed and esteemed international reputation.

Research areas include

Active natural products (Essential oils, alkaloids, lipids, phenolics, etc.).

Chromatographic and spectroscopic investigation of natural products.

Extraction, distillation and isolation of natural products.

Quality control of natural products and plant drugs.

Biological activities of natural products (Antimicrobial, antioxidant, enzymatic, etc.).

Microbial transformation of natural products.

Natural products for complementary therapies (Phytotherapy, aromatherapy, etc), among others