Introduction

The department of Biophysics devotes its research activities which center around the following fields: protein chemistry, structure determination through crystallization of micro- and macro-molecules, peptide synthesis, biological molecular interaction- and dynamic light scattering studies, bioinformatics, molecular biology and clinical proteomics. The outcome of these research activities leads to structure based drug design through ligand-target interactions. A few of the findings are left for processing through clinical trials for validity of the designed drugs.

The other research interest of this department concentrates on the validation of the applications of a low cost, non-invasive and non-oral administrative  complementary and alternative medical therapy for the management of ailments not tractable by conventionally  designed drugs. In this respect, the ongoing randomized clinical trials are in the areas of intractable epilepsy and diabetic neuropathy. It has also been observed through pilot studies of a small sample size that this therapy is effective for peripheral neuropathy, progressive supranuclear palsy, mastalgia, post–operative nausea, vomiting and pain, acute and chronic hypertension, spleenomegally and sports injuries etc.