Department of Physiology

About the Department

The Department of Physiology, Rammohan College came into existence from the beginning of the College in 1961 as pass undergraduate programme. In 1980 physiology honours was introduced as a degree course. In that year the department had three students only which is around forty in the recent years. The strength of the department is excellence in teaching. The alumni of the Department occupy high positions in academia.

After 25 years of successful teaching of Physiology (Hons.) at the undergraduate level from 1980, the University of Calcutta has extended affiliation to Rammohan College for teaching “M.Sc in Human Physiology" course in the year 2006. From then, this course is successfully continuing during day-time and on a Co-educational basis. The number of seats in each semester is 25.

Several students from this section are now engaged in teaching and/or research, both in national and international institutes.

Academic Programme

• University of Calcutta recommended three years B.Sc.Honours Course
• University of Calcutta recommended three years B.Sc. General Course
• M. Sc. in Human Physiology affiliated to University of Calcutta (Semester system)

Teaching faculty (UG)

Non teaching staff (UG)

1. Sri Gouri Sankar Dutta
2. Sri Arup Chowdhury
3. Sri Debasis Dey

Teaching faculty (PG)

In addition to the existing teaching faculty of the college, around 15 teachers from different Universities, Research Institutes and Colleges regularly take classes of this course as Guest faculty.

Sl. No.	Name of the Teacher	Designation
1.	Dr. Pranabesh Nath	Retired, City College
2.	Dr Anindya Kumar Ganguly	Retired BHEL
3.	Dr. Amar Kumar Chandra	Retired, University of Calcutta
4.	Prof Bithi Sarkar	Retired, University of Calcutta
5.	Dr. Amit Banerjee	University of Calcutta
6.	Dr. Subhasis Sahu	Kalyani University
7.	Dr. Sankarasis Banerjee	West Bengal State University
8.	Dr Kuladip Jana	Bose Institute
9.	Dr. Tapan Kumar Ghosh	City College
10.	Dr Swadesh Kumar De	City College
11.	Dr. Samarendra Nath Banerjee	Rammohan College
12.	Dr. Shantanu Das	Rammohan College
13.	Dr. Anirban Mitra	Institute of Genetic Engineering

To maintain the basic infrastructure, one library and one office has been developed for the PG section. The following persons are engaged in this section.

Sl. No.	Name of the Teacher	Designation
1.	Ms Pritikana Roy	Librarian
2.	Sri Tridib Chakraborty	Accounts in Charge
3.	Sri Amitava Mahapatra	Office Assistant
4.	Sri Hemanta Das	Laboratory Assistant
5.	Sri Mohan Aich	General duty assistant
6.	Sri Arup Chowdhury	General duty assistant
7.	Sri Munilal Paswan	General duty assistant

Research Wing

For greater academic interest and advancement of learning, from 2010, one Research wing has been developed in the department and in the meantime, four candidates have been awarded the degree of Ph.D. by the University of Calcutta. Presently, eight research scholars are actively engaged in research work for a Ph.D. in various related fields of Physiology like Pharmacology, Microbiology, Ergonomics, Social physiology, and Sports physiology.

The supervisors and research scholars have jointly published more than 15 original research articles in various national and international indexed journals of repute.

The teachers received grants for running research projects from the following funding agencies:-

1. University Grants Commission (UGC) Major research project.
2. Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), West Bengal.
3. University Grants Commission (UGC) Minor research project.

For research on animals, there is one animal house facility in the college, and to monitor this, there is an “Institutional Animal Ethics Committee” registered under CPCSEA, Govt. of India.