CDRI

Indian research institute at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, founded in 1951 and part of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, set up to develop medicines for the country. Works through divisions for medicinal and process chemistry, pharmacology, parasitology, endocrinology, biochemistry and pharmaceutics, has taken a number of Indian medicines from discovery to market, provides toxicology, analytical and formulation services and trains doctoral students through the CSIR academy.