Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - [CIMAP], Lucknow

Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) was founded in 1959 as the Central Indian Medicinal Plants Organisation (CIMPO) at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It is a leading aromatic plant research laboratory of CISR.). There are four research centres of this institute at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pantnagar, and Purana. It offers a Ph.D. program across six specializations. Admissions will be granted on the basis of CSIR UGC-NET followed by an interview.

CIMAP Lucknow Facilities

The Central Institute of Medical and Aromatic Plants provide very good research facilities with advanced equipment.

• Biology Central Facility – It is well equipped with advanced instruments like Automated Capillary genetic analyzer, Real-Time PCR, Ultracentrifuge, etc.
• Chemical Central Facility - It is well equipped with advanced instruments like GC, GC-MS, NMR, HPLC, LC-MS. The activities perform Qualitative and Quantitative identification of bioactive markers in various medicinal plants, essential oil. It also identifies the physical properties of essential oil, structural elucidation of natural product marker.
• Farms Services - It provides strengthening R&D base of MAP through field experiments and production of quality seeds and planting material of MAPs.
• Technology and Business Development (TBD) – This division has the prime objective of linking the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAP) science with society.
• Information and Communication – This department provides networking, mailing, and computer services at the institute. It is responsible for the up-gradation of mail, servers, DNS, DHCP, Router, backup, databases, Security.
• Project Monitoring and Evaluation – PME cell works as a central facility for project monitoring and evaluation of scientific and programs of the institute.