Laboratories
The Department of Pharmacy has following well maintained and equipped laboratories.
Pharmaceutics Lab
The laboratories are equipped with new as well as conventional gadgets. The working platforms have adequate water, gas and electricity supply. These well-furnished laboratories cater to the practical requirements of the subject’s technology of drugs and cosmetics, biopharmaceutics and dosage form design, biological pharmaceuticals, physical pharmaceutics, dispensing pharmacy. These laboratories provide good facilities for dispensing various prescriptions and conduct experiments based on physical pharmacy and dispensing pharmacy. This lab is also utilized to teach about the dispensing of the drugs in a hospital by a pharmacist and about community pharmacy practice. The lab is used for the preparation of aromatic waters, ointments, suppositories, gels, creams, syrups, liniments, lozenges, lotions, tinctures etc. It deals with the study of oral, parenteral, dermal, transdermal and mucosal dosage forms; it also focuses on the preparation and evaluation of cosmetics. It also covers basic topics like development of new drugs, preformulation, along with principles of formulation design. This laboratory provides good facilities for pharmaceutical engineering based on drying, distillation, evaporation, centrifugation and crystallization of substances.
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab
In this laboratory the experiments based on qualitative and quantitative determination of impurities present in various inorganic compounds. The experiments aimed separation and identification of inorganic and organic mixture are also carried out in this lab. The pharmaceutical chemistry lab is well ventilated and exhausted and equipped with Magnetic stirrers, Hot plates, Digital melting point determination apparatus, Hot air oven, Distillation assembly and Fuming chamber with which control humidity and heat activation. These well-furnished laboratories provide facilities for practical training in pharmaceutical medicinal chemistry. Students familiarized with various organic compounds by their nature, physical and chemical properties and usage in chemical reactions as well as in pharmaceutical industries in this laboratory
Bio-Chemistry and Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy Lab
This laboratory is built with an insight with instruments like B.O.D. incubator, aseptic room with laminar air flow cabinet and U.V. cabinet, digital oven, incubators, and autoclaves and well-designed aseptic area. It will help students familiarize with Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), design, development and maintenance of aseptic areas, procedure for sterility testing, experiments in biotechnology, growth, cultivation, isolation and identification of microorganisms.
Pharmacognosy Lab
Pharmacognosy lab provides adequate facilities for study of cells and tissues in different parts like root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit and seed of natural plants, identification and standardization of crude drugs. This lab has well equipped facilities for conducting research in the field of standardization of herbal formulations. This laboratory is used for morphological and microscopical studies of plant materials and also to identify the constituents of plant material by performing chemical tests. This lab is well equipped and has facility of all instruments like soxhlet apparatus, Clavenger apparatus, Incenerator, Phase contrast microscope, Simple microscope and Compound microscope with stage micrometer, Camera Lucida, Eye Piece micrometer and Projection microscope.
Anatomy and Physiology and Pharmacology Lab
This well-equipped laboratory helps train the students in practical studies of Anatomy, Physiology and Health education. Practicals based on urine analysis, hematology, etc. are carried out using these facilities. The lab is well furnished with the models of various organ systems of human body like skeletal system, respiratory system, digestive system, nervous system, cardio vascular system etc. and has instruments like Haemocytometer, Spirometer, Haemoglobinometer, RBC& WBC pipettes, Neubauer’s counting chamber, Sphygmomanometer etc. Advanced Pharmacology Laboratory helps train the students in practical studies of pharmacology and chemotherapy, bioassays of various drugs, etc. The advanced pharmacology laboratory is specially designed to carry out animal model experiments for analgesic, antihistaminic, antipyretic, anti-hepatotoxic, anti-ulcer, anti-inflammatory activity testing of known and new drugs of chemical and herbal origin. The lab is well furnished with instruments like Sherrington rotating drum and drum cylinder, isolated organ bath, isotonic frontal writing lever, Rota rod apparatus etc.
Machine Room
The Machine room equipped with most modern equipments and machinery used for pilot project, formulation and development studies in injectables, tablets, capsules, liquid orals and ointment sections. The machine room has a well-built area of machines generally encountered in Pharmaceutical industry like pan coater, hand operated single punch machine, dissolution rate test apparatus, disintegration rate test apparatus, ampoule filling and sealing machine, bottle filling machine, mechanical and gyratory sieve shaker, humidity chamber, capsule filling machine, mechanical Stirrer, double cone blender and ointment filling machine. This laboratory provides a window for young and aspiring pharmacist to be well versed with the current pharmaceutical scenario.id orals and ointment sections.
Computer Lab
This well-equipped laboratory helps train the students in practical studies of Anatomy, Physiology and Health education. Practicals based on urine analysis, hematology, etc. are carried out using these facilities. The lab is well furnished with the models of various organ systems of human body like skeletal system, respiratory system, digestive system, nervous system, cardio vascular system etc. and has instruments like Haemocytometer, Spirometer, Haemoglobinometer, RBC& WBC pipettes, Neubauer’s counting chamber, Sphygmomanometer etc. Advanced Pharmacology Laboratory helps train the students in practical studies of pharmacology and chemotherapy, bioassays of various drugs, etc. The advanced pharmacology laboratory is specially designed to carry out animal model experiments for analgesic, antihistaminic, antipyretic, anti-hepatotoxic, anti-ulcer, anti-inflammatory activity testing of known and new drugs of chemical and herbal origin. The lab is well furnished with instruments like Sherrington rotating drum and drum cylinder, isolated organ bath, isotonic frontal writing lever, Rota rod apparatus etc.
Herbal Garden
A medicinal plants garden has been developed at the campus having various medicinal plants. The plants grown in this garden are useful in the practical classes of Pharmacognosy. This developed medicinal plants garden provides a strong impetus for herbal drug research and for the training of our students in the subject of Pharmacognosy.