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 tissue culture of some plants and its biological activity.

4- Studying different pharmacological activities of medicinal plants.

5- Studying factors affecting growth of medicinal plants and production of volatile oils from different plants.

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