The National Institute of Sowa Rigpa (Previously National Research Institute of Sowa Rigpa), Leh has been conducting various Research and development (R&D) projects on Sowa Rigpa and Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAP). The following are some major projects.

• Tribal Health care Research programme under Tribal Sub Plan (TSP).
• Revitalization of Local Heath Tradition to secure sustainable health security in Leh district.
• Survey, cataloguing, digitalized inventory of Sowa-Rigpa manuscript.
• Compilation and Documentation of Classical Sowa-Rigpa formulations.
• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL).
• Promotion of Sowa Rigpa under Public Health Initiative Project.

• Pictorial guide of commonly use Medicinal Plants of Sowa Rigpa and Ayurveda.
• Cultivation Studies of some Endangered and commercially viable Medicinal plants of Trans Himalayan and Production of quality germplasm.
• Conservation status, germplasm collection and resource augmentation of priority medicinal plant species in the cold desert of Ladakh.
• Development of Agro-techniques of High Altitude endangered medicinal plants of Trans Himalayas.
• Gene bank maintenance of Medicinal and Aromatic plants.