VETERINARY COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NAMAKKAL

Objectives

• Offering U.G. courses for B.V.Sc., students and P.G. course for M.V.Sc. and Ph.D., students
• Providing laboratory facilities and guidance to M.V.Sc., and Ph.D. students.
• Conducting post mortem examination on Livestock and Poultry for academic and diagnostic purposes.
• Screening the clinical materials and histopathological sections to aid in confirmation of diseases.

Courses Offered

Ph.D.

• VPP 801 Molecular pathology of cell injury 2+1
• VPP 802 Oncology concepts 2+1
• VPP 803 Toxicopathology 2+1
• VPP 804 Advances in pathology of nutritional and metabolic diseases 2+1
• VPP 810 Avian Pathology 2+1

Post – Graduate

• VPP 601 Tissue reaction to injury 2+1
• VPP 602 Clinical Pathology 1+2
• VPP 603 General Oncology 2+1
• VPP 604 Histopathological Techniques and Autopsy Diagnosis 1+2
• VPP 605 Systemic Pathology I  2+1
• VPP 607  Oncology specific tumours  2+1
• VPP 608 Toxicopathology  2+1
• VPP 610 Special Pathology I 2+1

Under – Graduate

• VPP 211 General Pathology 2+1
• VPP 221 Systemic Pathology 2+1
• VPP 311 Special Pathology – I 2+1
• VPP 321 Special Pathology – II 2+1
• VLD 421 Veterinary  Laboratory Diagnosis–I Clinics 0+2
• VLD 511 Veterinary  Laboratory Diagnosis-II Clinics 0+2

Infrastructure

• LCD projector in the lecture hall
• Binocular research microscopes
• Trinocular microscope with photomicrographic unit
• Histopathological instruments (histotap, histoblock, histobath and microtome)
• Computers

Achievements / Excellence

Education

• Practical manuals have been prepared for various U.G. courses
• Transparency slides depicting the lesions of various animal and poultry diseases have been prepared
• A museum consisting of formalin preserved diseased tissues/organs is being maintained
• A repository of microscopic slides pertaining to almost all diseases and neoplasms is maintained  

Research

• Twenty four M.V.Sc., and two Ph.D., researches have been completed
• Ph.D., research on “Pathology of gastro-intestinal diseases in layer chicken” and M.V.Sc., research on “Pathology of necrotic enteritis in broiler chicken” are currently undertaken
• University subproject on “ Ameliorative effect of Panchakavya on aflatoxicosis in broiler chicken“ has been completed
• University subproject on “Hepatoprotective effect of Amirthakaraisal on aflatoxicosis in broiler chicken”   is being carried out

Outreach

• This department is serving as a hub for postmortem diagnosis of animals and birds brought from various districts of Tamil Nadu
• Histopathological evaluation of various researches are being undertaken

Current Focus

Avian diseases and animal neoplasms

Faculty

• Dr. G.A.Balasubramaniam, Professor and Head
• Dr. P.Srinivasan, Professor
• Dr. P.Balachandran, Associate Professor
• Dr. A.Arulmozhi, Assistant Professor
• Dr. R.Madheswaran, Assistant Professor
• Dr. K.Gopal, Assistant Professor
• Dr. M.Sasikala, Assistant Professor