Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical technologies
Pharmaceutics department
deals with various strategies concerned with administration of therapeutic active
agents to the body by several routes. It includes study of designing, development
and evaluation of conventional and novel drug delivery systems.
Emphasis is laid on fundamentals of pharmaceutics like study of dosage forms, physico-chemical
characterization of drug(s), unit operations and manufacturing pharmacy.
The department has independent laboratories equipped with adequate facilities for
B.Pharm course. The department is equipped with modern teaching aids like computers,
LCD and OHP. The department is also well equipped with instruments viz.,
- Single and multi - station tableting machine,
- Dissolution and disintegration testing apparatus,
- Stability testing/humidity chambers and
- Centrifuge.
To include independency among the students during B.Pharm, they are motivated to
take various activities like Journal club, assignments, laboratory works, and regular
class seminars. The students can access various Pharmaceutical journal published
internationally.
Research activities:
The on-going research activities of the department are in the areas of development
and evaluation of
- Modified release tablets.
- Mucoadhesive drug delivery system.
- Gastroretentive dosage forms.
- Colon targeted delivery systems and
- Fast dissolving/ disintegrating tablets