Departments and Laboratories

1. Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology

    Pharmaceutics Laboratory I, II, III, IV

    Industrial Pharmacy Laboratory I, II, III

    Pharmaceutical Microbiology Laboratory and Aseptic Area

2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

    Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory I & II/ Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory I & II

    Pharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory

    Central Instrument Laboratory III

3. Department of Pharmacology

    Human Anatomy, Physiology and Health Education Laboratory

    Pharmacology Laboratory

4. Department of Pharmacognosy

    Pharmacognosy Laboratory and Phytochemistry Laboratory

5. Computer Laboratory

6. Research Laboratory – Central Instrument Lab I & III

7. Clinical Pharmacy

8. Library Facility

Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutics Laboratory I, II, III, IV 

These well-furnished laboratories cater to the practical requirements of the subjects Technology of Drugs & Cosmetics, Biopharmaceutics & Dosage Form Design, Biological Pharmacy, Physical Pharmacy, Dispensing Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Engineering (unit operations) and Engineering Drawing.

Industrial Pharmacy Laboratory I, II, III

This laboratory is well equipped with machinery required for mixing, size reduction, granulation, tablet compression, drying, sterilization, capsule filling, ampoule filling & sealing in manufacturing of pharmaceutical dosage form like tablets, capsules, ointments, liquid orals, parenterals, novel drug delivery system, packaging science etc. This laboratory is also equipped with equipments like hardness taster, disintegration and dissolution apparatus etc.

Pharmaceutical Microbiology Laboratory and Aseptic Area

This sophisticated laboratory helps students to 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 microorganism, microbiological assays etc.

 

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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry  

Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory I &II / medicinal chemistry laboratory I & II

These well-furnished laboratories provide facilities for practical training    in pharmaceutical medicinal chemistry, synthesis and structural elucidation of medicinally important compounds, practical training is also offered in organic chemistry, biochemistry and inorganic chemistry with well design experiments.

Pharmaceutical analysis laboratory

Pharmacopeal and other standard and well-publicized methods are used for analysis of foods and pharmaceuticals. This laboratory equipped with necessary facilities helps students familiarize themselves with different classical methods of analysis.

 

Central Instrument Laboratory III:

This laboratory supplements pharmaceutical analysis laboratory referred to above and enables students to perform analysis of drugs and pharmaceuticals using different instruments based on spectroscopic, electrometric and chromatographic techniques. The study of other subjects requiring instrumental analysis is also done here.

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Department of Pharmacology:

Human Anatomy, Physiology and Health Education lab & Pharmacology Lab:

Both well equipped laboratories and animal house (Registered & Approved by CPCSEA, Chennai) help the students in practical studies of anatomy physiology and health education, pharmacology and chemotherapy, bioassay of various drugs and to carry out animal model experiments for the activity testing of various drugs and chemicals etc.

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Department of Pharmacognosy:

Pharmacognosy Laboratory and Phytochemistry lab:

Standardization of herbal drugs is need of the hour. These laboratories provide the required facilities for the students to acquire skill of identification, morphological and microscopical studies of crude as well as powdered drugs, extraction, isolation and estimation of active principles, pharmacological uses and formulation aspects of various medicinal and aromatic plants of traditional value.    

Museum:

A separate collection of herbariums and drug samples of the plants origin with detailed description is available.

 

Medicinal Garden: 

A medicinal garden is cultivated within the campus as a supplement to the Pharmacognosy department. The medicinal plants are tagged with their biological names and categories used in Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy.  

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Computer Laboratory:

The computer laboratory is well equipped with latest computers and necessary software’s for practical training in computer programming, application of computers in pharmacy and Internet facilities for the use of students and staff.

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Research Laboratory – Central Instrument Lab I & III        

These are state of the art laboratories equipped with very sophisticated instruments like Double beam UV spectrophotometer, FTIR spectrophotometer, HPLC, HPTLC etc. These laboratories enable the postgraduate research students and faculty members to pursue various minor and major research projects as a part of academic research and sponsored projects in QA & other subject. These laboratories are air conditioned with exquisite finish of floors, walls and false ceilings with appropriate materials

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Clinical Pharmacy

Two laboratories are set up to cater to the postgraduate program in clinical pharmacy and to undertake any sponsored clinical research work including bioequivalence studies.

Biomedical Laboratory: Equipped with required facilities & instruments like Biochemistry Analyzer, Binocular microscope, Automate Cell counter etc.  

 

Pharmacokinetic Laboratory: Equipped with facilities for keeping human volunteers & patties.

 Project Room: This room aids postgraduate students to pursue their dissertation work.

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Library Facility:

A well-maintained and spacious library having the latest reference books, textbooks, CDs on pharmacy subjects with Indian and foreign journals and periodicals for keeping the students with the latest developments in pharmaceutical sciences

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