1. Traditional systems of medicines and harmonization2. Ethnopharmacology and ethnomedicines-inspired drug development3. Quality evaluation of herbal medicines: Challenges and opportunities4. Qualitative analysis for evaluation of herbal drugs5. Morphological and microscopical evaluations6. Extraction and other downstream procedures for evaluation of herbal drugs7. Bioactive phyto-components and their analysis8. Thin layer chromatography for evaluation of herbal drugs9. High performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) for analysis of herbal drugs10. High performance liquid chromatography for analysis of herbal drugs11. LC-MS: A rapid technique for understanding the plant metabolomic analysis12. Chemo-profiling and marker analysis for quality evaluation of herbal drugs13. Bioassay guided isolation and evaluation of herbal drugs14. Enzyme inhibition studies for evaluation of herbal drugs15. Evaluation of herbal drugs for antimicrobial and parasiticidal effects16. Antiviral evaluation of herbal drugs17. Plant metabolomics and quality evaluation of herbal drugs18. Safety related quality issues for development of herbal drugs19. Quality assurance of herbal drugs and stability testing20. Phytopharmaceuitcals, nutraceuticals and their evaluation21. Regulatory harmonization and good quality practices for development of herbal medicine
Prof. Pulok Kumar Mukherjee is working as the Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, under Department Biotechnology, Govt. of India, at Imphal, Manipur. He worked as the Director of the School of Natural Product Studies and Professor (On lien), Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has made several innovative and outstanding contributions in academic/research on development of Bio-economy from Bioresources particularly on traditional medicine inspired drug discovery from Indian medicinal plants, Ethno pharmacology and evidence based validation of herbs used in medicine and food to make them available from 'Farm to Pharma'. Prof. Mukherjee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), West Bengal Academy of Sciences (FAScT), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India (FNAAS), and the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc). He has contributed over 230 publications in peer-reviewed impact journals, several patents, and books on evaluation of botanicals. His works on translational research on traditional medicine are useful bio-prospecting tools for the development of drugs from nature and ancestors. For further details please visit www.pulokmukherjee.in