Department of Pharmaceutics
About the Department
The Department of Pharmaceutics is focused on making the students knowledgeable in the formulation of pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutics involves the design, development and evaluation of drugs in combination with an appropriate dosage form. Pre-formulation studies, drug-excipient compatibility studies and stability studies are carried out in the department with the focus on developing newer dosage forms.
The department also has a biotechnology laboratory for carrying out microbiological and biotechnology related activities.
The machine room provides an industrial set-up facility that acts as a platform for young and aspiring pharmacist, post graduate students and research scholars to gain the hands on experience on unit operations used in the pharmaceutical industry and for the development of novel drug delivery systems in real-time.
Machine room is designed to acquire skills in learning the manufacture of various solid, liquid and semi-solid formulations. Equipment are available for evaluation of various pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Activities
The main focus of the research activities in the department is on the development of Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics and Cosmeceuticals and the students are trained in several specialized areas, including:
- Formulation and development of conventional solid, liquid and semisolid dosage forms.
- Novel drug delivery systems like microspheres, mucoadhesives, transdermal patches, nanoparticles, liposomes, niosomes, gastroretentive dosage formsand colon targeted drug delivery system.
- Study of enzyme technology, fermentation, bioassay and micro biological assays.
Facilities
The following instruments are available for manufacture of various pharmaceutical dosage forms like tablets, capsules, liquid orals, ointments, creams, gels, pastes and novel delivery systems like microspheres, vesicular drug delivery systems, mucoadhesive drug delivery system, transdermal drug delivery system, gastro retentive dosage forms, targeted drug delivery systems, etc.
- All-purpose equipment
- Ampoule filling and sealing machine
- Ball mill
- Capsule filling machine
- Collapsible tube filling machine
- Cramping machine
- Coating pan
- Liquid filling machine
- Disintegrator
- High speed homogenizer
- Hardness tester
- Mechanical stirrer
- Magnetic stirrer
- Bath sonicator
- Sieve shaker
- Sixteen station rotary tablet punching machine
- Single punch tablet punching machine
- Tray dryer
- Dissolution apparatus
- Disintegration tester
- Hot air oven
- Cooling centrifuge
- Aseptic Laminar air flow
- Autoclave
- Incubator
- Zone reader
- Colony counter
- Microscopes
