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From the Desk of the Vice Chancellor

Greetings!

As the Vice Chancellor of this premier university, I am extremely pleased to share this space to converse with all of you. The University of Madras is a post- sesquicentennial institution which has forged a glorious path for itself and has been the site for significant scientific discoveries as well as the beacon for national and regional societal transformation. It has successfully managed to hold aloft its tradition even while keeping up with the emerging trends. One reason for this is the way in which the university has kept alive its interactions with all the stakeholders.

The COVID 19 pandemic has introduced a ‘new normal’ and its impact is felt in the workings of the university as well. The students have been attending the lectures online. While online learning has the advantage of being anytime and anywhere, it has taken away the peer group interaction and peer learning which are integral aspects of the university experience. We look forward to welcoming you to the campus very soon. Meanwhile, our faculty and administration will continue to bring the best to the virtual classrooms. As students, you need to view the restrictions posed by the pandemic as a temporary deterrent. Your focus should be to gain the competencies to conduct application oriented research in order to evolve as useful citizens of our society.

Our university boasts of faculty with a high degree of knowledge and commitment to offer the best in teaching and research. Given the context of the pandemic, we need to redefine our teaching-learning processes to offer the best pedagogic experience to our students. Similarly, the post-pandemic era demands that we hone the employment potential and entrepreneurial capacity of our learners. This necessitates that we focus on sponsored research in cutting edge areas.

Our administrative staff have been the backbone of the university. While we move towards a transparent and complete e-governance model, we need more support from you. When the teaching-learning process at our university – from admission to certification -- is moving into the digital era, your skills and competencies need to keep pace.

At our university, we are gearing up for the final round of NAAC re-accreditation. This has offered us an opportunity to assess our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges. Further, it has made us more determined to reiterate our quality benchmarks in teaching, research and extension activities. We are aware of this responsibility and fully prepared for it because, our university has always encouraged individual thinking within the established frameworks. This is echoed in the words of Tim Burners Lee, who initiated the World Wide Web: “We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually.” Let us unite to make the educational experience at the University of Madras a synergy of the best minds and best thoughts.

Prof.Dr.S.Gowri

Vice-Chancellor
University of Madras

Department of Pharmacology and Environmental Toxicology

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About the Department

The History

The department was established in 1976 and has two major components namely Pharmacology and Environmental Toxicology. The Department of Pharmacology & Environmental Toxicology offers M.Sc.  Toxicology, M.D.Pharmacology, M,Phil. Environmental Toxicology, M,Phil. Neuro and Nanotoxicology and Ph.D. programmes. As a research Department it has been recognized by UGC as a UGC- SAP- DRS-phase II with the thrust areas 1 & 2 as follows: Pharmacology of Indian medicinal plants and traditional medicinal preparations and Toxicology of Environmental pollutants. The department is also being funded under DST-FIST programme. The projects of the Department include funding by DBT, UGC and DST. The faculty member’s carryout intensive research in: Experimental pharmacology, Phytopharmacology, Traditional medicine formulations, Immuno-pharmacology and toxicology, Neuropharmacology and toxicology, Cardiovascular pharmacology, Aquatic toxicology, Food toxicology, Environmental toxicology and Pesticide toxicology. The expertise and facilities can be used for screening of pharmacological as well as toxicological profile of drugs and medicinal plants as well as toxicological evaluation of specific environmental pollutants. The department has the sophisticated analytical equipments such as Florescence spectrophotometer, GC-MS, high pressure liquid chromatography, UV visible spectrophotometer, electrophoresis unit, soft laser screening densitometer, refrigerated centrifuge, thin layer chromatography system and tissue culture facility. In vitro and in vivo pharmacological/toxicological screening equipments include Polygraph, tissue bath set-up, physiograph and electro cardio graph. Rota-rod, actophotometer, analgesio meter, Heb’s William maze are available for behavioural screening.  Thermo cyclers, Co2 incubator for Tissue culture facility, Millicell, as well as Basic equipments such as pH meter, electronic balances, Microscopes, Liquid nitrogen cylinder etc are available.

            A “National Centre for Neurotoxicity research to assist drug development” has been established by Prof. S.L.Maheswari at the Department of Pharmacology & Environmental Toxicology  funded by DST-DPRP-TDT, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. Under this Centre, M.Phil., Neuro and nanotoxicology is being offered to train Manpower and capacity building especially in the focused area of Neuro and nanotoxicology. The State of art equipments like UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, Transmission Electron microscope of 120 KV, Electrophoresis and Western blot units, Biorad dry transfer system, Ultra pure water system, ultra microtome and auto cut   microtome, wax embedding station, tissue processor, EM tissue processor, Florescence- Phase contrast-Bright field microscope, multimode reader, HPLC with UV, Fluorescence, EC and Refractive index detectors, ultracentrifuge, Microwave digestion system, liquid scintillation counter,  ICP-MS, Focus Gas Chromatography, Deep freezers (-85° C and-20° C,) Ultra sonicator, ultrasonic washer, water baths, Rotary evaporator, Soxhslet apparatus, hot air oven, incubator, chiller, Electronic balances, pH meters, extraction units, Ice flake machine, Computer aided Equipments for behavior assessment etc. are also available .  

Infrastructure

Infrastructure and Learning resources:

  • Information and Communication tools for learning: Internet browsing facility for students and scholars. LCD and live demonstration/document reader facility.
  • Other Facilities: Xerox facility
  • Instrument facilities: HPLC, CO2 incubator, micro ultra centrifuge, fluorescence spectrophotometer, vertical and inverted microscopes, PCR thermocycler etc.

Endowments

Maharaja of Travancore Curzon Endowment - It was founded by His Highness of Travancore in memory of the visit of Lord Curzon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India to the State of Travancore in November 1900 and to encourage post-graduate studies mainly in scientific subjects bearing on the material proposperity of India. The endownment was accepted by the Senate of University of Madras and at present consists of Rs.50,300/- in the form of Government securities. Dept. Special Recognition:

  • UGC-SAP-DRS-I from April, 2004
  • DST-FIST-LEVEL-I - from April, 2005
  • Ministry of Health Sciences - for marine environmental toxicology - from 2002

Partnership/Collobration
  • Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Adyar, Chennai.
  • Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Adyar, Chennai
  • IGCAR, Kalpakkam.
  • Tamil Nadu Forensic Sciences Department, Chennai.
  • ICMAM-PD, DOD, NIOT, Chennai,
  • King Institute, Chennai.
  • NIMHANS, Bangalore
  • National Institute for Physiological Sciences - Okazaki,. Japan.

 

Library
  • 150 books on Pharmacology, Toxicology and related disciplines

Our Faculties

Assistant Professor and Head i/c

Dr. B. Anandan

M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

  banandan@unom.ac.in    +91-044-24547180

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Course Offered

Post Graduate

M.Sc Toxicology

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Fee Structure

Master of Philosophy(M.Phil)

M.Phil - Environmental Toxicology - (Inter disciplinary)

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Fee Structure

Neuro and Nanotoxicology

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Fee Structure

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D)

Ph.D - Inter disciplinary - Pharmacology / Environmental Toxicology

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Fee Structure

Syllabus

Syllabus will be available soon

Fees Structure

Fee Structure will be available soon

Timetable

Timetable will be available soon

M.Phil Scholars

Name Guide Topic Year Joined Year Completed Email Id
No M.Phil Scholars

Ph.D Scholars

Name Guide Topic Year Joined Year Completed Email Id
No Result available

Awarded Scholars

Ph.D Nil
M.Phil Nil

Present Scholars

Ph.D Nil
M.Phil Nil
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