Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Education & Research

The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is one of the core department, engaged in research related to drug development and discovery. The Department was formally established in 1986 with the M. Pharm. (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) and Ph.D. programme. The University started two-year M Pharm (Pharm Analysis) course in the academic year 2006. The courses are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Pharmacy Council of India (PCI). The Department is well equipped with modern wet laboratories along with analytical instruments like NMR (Bruker Avance-400MHz), IR (Bruker alpha-T spectrophotometer), Mass (Waters SYNAPT UPLC-MS/MS) etc. The Department has received research grants to the tune of more than Rs. 2.5 crores from various funding agencies like UGC/ ICMR/ AYUSH/ AICTE/ DST/ DBT. Currently, DST-FIST (Level-1) of amount Rs 1.18 Crore was awarded to the department. The students are well placed in various industries (Ranbaxy Research Laboratories-Diachi, Sun-Pharma, Nicolas Piramal, Jubiliant Organosys, Dabur etc) and Academic and Research Institutions through Placement cell. The School of Pharmaceutical Education & Research has recently been ranked 1st amongst the various Pharmacy Institutions in India by NIRF-2020, Govt. of India.