Profile: Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine is an organization having the facility for advance product chemistry, pharmacology, biotechnology and botanical sciences. The major areas of research include standardizing the agro technology of medicinal and aromatic plants, their propagation techniques, isolation of active fractions & single molecules from such plants. The herbal based new drug design & development has four sub-sections, which are biopharmaceutics, biochemistry, specific pharmacology & general pharmacology. The biopharmaceutics has the expertise in the areas of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and stability study. The biochemical markers & assays for every activity are taken up by the biochemists. The specific pharmacology has a set of bioactivities being carried. The active products are studied for general pharmacological profile in the general pharmacology laboratory. The division of pharmacology is well equipped with modern infrastructure facilities. The plant based products are subjected to a battery of well established in vitro as well as in vivo tests for their biopotential, efficacy and biosafety.