1. Development of new strategies in complimentary, alternative and herbal medicine.

2. Studying the pharmacological effect of secondary metabolites of medicinal plants.

3. Assessment of the biological activity of some plants using tissue culture techand its biological activity.

4. Studying different pharmacological activities of medicinal plants.

5. Studying factors affecting growth of medicinal plants and  the production of volatile oils.

6. Development of validated analytical methods for determining promising natural compounds in plant extracts thus enabling the study of factors affecting the biological yield of such compounds.