CSIR-Central Drug research Institute, Lucknow

Central Drug Research Institute is a multidisciplinary research laboratory located in Lucknow, India, that employs scientific personnel from various areas of biomedical sciences. It was one of the first laboratories to be established in India right after its independence and is among the thirty-nine laboratories functioning under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India. The institute was formally inaugurated on 17 February 1951 by the prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. For administrative and scientific purposes, the institute's manpower has been grouped into 17 research and development divisions, along with several divisions providing technical and scientific support. These divisions include Biochemistry, Botany, Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Cancer Biology, Endocrinology, Fermentation Technology, Medicinal and Process Chemistry, Microbiology, Neuroscience and Aging Biology, Parasitology, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Laboratory Animals. Additionally, two data centers and one field station located outside the research institute provide operational support. Among its notable achievements, the institute developed Centchroman/Ormeloxifene.