Vision, Mission and Key objectives


Vision: The vision of the Institute is to position IIIM as an International center of excellence for natural products chemistry, chemical biology, pharmacology and biotechnology to discover new chemical entities (NCEs) as drugs for unmet medical needs and provide scientific rationale and validity to various Indian systems of medicine. The institute aspires to achieve leadership position as a research Institute for creating a broad knowledge base, a work force of dedicated and trained scientists and a technology development center through scientific exploration of secondary metabolites from plants and microbial biodiversity, at the same time generating awareness for their conservation and protection.

Mission: To become a Centre of Excellence in Natural Products chemistry and biotechnology driven drug discovery, integrating modern biology with chemistry.

Key Objectives : CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) is a national Institute of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) of India, with primary objectives of research on drug discovery f