Department of Bio-Chemistry  


ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Post-Graduate Course in Biochemistry at Karnatak University was introduced in 1969 as specialized Course in the Department of Chemistry. Prof. M. Madaiah, founder teaching laid strong foundation for teaching Biochemistry and his inspiring teaching attracted students opting for the course as first choice. Majority of graduates passed out from this department have made excellent scientific careers in universities and laboratories of national and international repute. The Post Graduate Department of students in Biochemistry was established as an independent department in 1997. The Department offer M. Sc., and Ph.D., degree in Biochemistry and has adequate infrastructure for teaching and research. The teaching programme and the curriculum is designed to cover not only core areas of biochemistry but also contemporary aspects of life sciences in general. Excellent training at M. Sc., Ph. D., level has helped students to obtain placement  in National and International research Laboratories as well in industry.  The Department has collaborative research programms with premier National and International Universities, research laboratories and Industry, contributed to best publications and patents. The department has four MOU’s for technology development and transfer. Faculty are involved in prestigious institutional research programs like UGC’s UPE, CPEPA, and DBT’s IPLS apart from having individual research projects sponsored by UKIERI, DST, DBT, CSIR,  DST-PURSE Phase-II, RUSA funded etc. By the financial support of various funding agencies state of art research infrastructure has been developed to conduct cutting edge research in the field of Protein Chemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology.

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