Funded Research Projects

DST KU KNISS LABORATORIES - DPRD RESEARCH PROJECT

The Ministry of Science & Technology - Department of Science & Technology - Government of India has sanctioned a Joint Venture Project for Rs. 1.28 crore under the DPRB programme for Karpagam University towards Herbal Anti-Diabetic Formulation Development, NABL accredition level of labs are being established for this project. Facilities include HPTCL & Spray Dryer etc.

Research activities

Major and Minor projects funded by UGC /ICMR / ICSSR / Ministry of Environment & Forest and Ministry of Agriculture / TNSCSCT / Ministry of Youth Affairs and sports / Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

S.No	Principal Investigator	Title Project	Name of the Funding Agency	Amount
1.	Dr. Maleeka Begum	Improvement of infrastructural facilities of the existing botanical garden	Ministry of Environment and Forest	2,00,000
2.	Dr. P.K. Suresh	Invitroanalysis of leukocytes and lung cell lines exposed to asbestos a significant occupational pollutant, to determine its genotoxicity and mechanisms of cancer	UGC, New Delhi	3,23,040
3.	Dr. A. Anburaj	Effect of high temperature stress on nitrogen fixation and nitrate reduction their impact on protein yield characteristic in chick pea	UGC, New Delhi	3,28,060
4.	R. M. Vijayalakshmi	In vitro screening and photochemical characterization of selected Indian medicinal plants for their antimicrobial activity	UGC, Hyderabad	50,000
5.	Dr. M. Palaniswamy	Exploitation of litter degrading fungi for pulp and paper bleaching	UGC,New Delhi	10,03,300
6.	Dr. Rajeswari Sivaraj	Treatment of textile effluent by parthenium activated carbon adsorption and bioremediation	UGC, New Delhi	10,08,100
7.	Dr. M. Pugalenthi	Comparative nutritive evaluation of differentially processedMucuna seeds and its utilization as a feed ingredients for poultry	UGC,New Delhi	7,42,600
8.	Dr. G. Sekar	Establishment of instruments maintenance facility	UGC,New Delhi	5,76,548
9.	Dr. V.K.Gopalakrishnan	Anticancer effect of medicinal plants on prostate cancer progression model invitro	ICMR,l New Delhi	4,44,931
10.	Dr. J.M. Sasikumar	Isolation of antioxidant flavinoids from underexploited wild edible fruits of the Nilgris, western Ghats	UGC,New Delhi	3,36,000
11.	Dr. V.K.Gopalakrishnan	Expression of transfected FHIT gene in ovarian cancer cell lines	UGC, New Delhi	8,03,600
12.	Dr. P.Jeyaramaraja	Studies on mechanism and molecular markers related to drought tolerance in peanut (Arachis hypogea L.)	UGC,New Delhi	11,50,000
13.	Dr. P. Palanivelu	The study on export performance of garment industry in Trippur	UGC,New Delhi	3,68,200
14.	Dr. Jelsy Joseph	An analysis of non-performing asserts of selected industrial units supported by a nationalized bank in Coimbatore region	UGC, New Delhi	2,82,000
15.	Prof. M. Palaniswamy	Purification and characterization of milk clotting enzyme byMucor species and its application in cheese making industry	UGC,New Delhi	5,75,800
16.	Dr. T. Subburaj	Development of mechanism based antidiabetic formulation, standardization from Indian traditional herbs. Viz., Bioavailability, stability studies	DST, New Delhi	1,25,23,000
17.	Dr. S. Sudha	Cloning and expression of Human calreticulin (CRT) gene on human breast cancer cell line: a foundation of DNA vaccine	DST, New Delhi	18,92,400/- (Amount sanction letter not yet received)
18.	Dr. G. R. Prabhu	Production of bacterially expressed double strand RNA (ds RNA) for sugarcane viral disease control – a simple, irresponsive RNA interference (RNAi) approach.	DST, New Delhi	20,59,200
19.	Dr.M.Nalini	IDENTIFICATION AND PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL AGGLUTININ FROM THE HEMOLYMPH OF LARVAL INSTARS OF PERICALLIA RICINI (Fabricius)	TNSCST	10,000/- (released Rs.6,000/-)
20.	Dr. G.Sekar	A study on the social, psychological and economical aspects of voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) on textile workers.	ICSSR, New Delhi	3,10,675
21.	Dr. G.Sekar	Land reform and employment trends of landless agriculture laborers belonging to scheduled castes	Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
22.	Dr. S. Sudha	Cloning and expression of human calrecticulun (CRT) gene on human brest cancer cell line: a foundation of DNA vaccine	DST, New Delhi	18,92400
23.	Dr. K. Ramasamy	Biobutanol production by metabolically modified Clostridium sp.	DBT, New Delhi	23,75,000

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