Departments

THE PHARMACEUTICS DEPARTMENT

The aim of the department is to provide an in depth knowledge in quantitative aspects of drug delivery, and involves the design, development, and evaluation of drugs in combination with an appropriate dosage form, through original exploration and experimentation, culminating in the presentation of dissertation that sets out the aims, objectives, methodology, results and conclusion arrived of the research undertaken. In the department of pharmaceutics fundamental and applied research is carried out in the fields of formulation science, novel and targeted drug delivery, tabletting and granulation etc. The department also provides regular training programmes for the students for preparation to work at pharmaceutical industries as a part of curriculum.

THE PHARMACOGNOSY DEPARTMENT

Due to the widespread use of botanicals in developing as well as their resurgence in industrialized nations, significant concerns have been raised about their quality, safety and efficacy. Pharmacognosy plays a critical role in ensuring the authenticity, purity and consistency of the materials employed in this regard. It contributes significantly to the practice of Pharmacy and Herbal Medicine. The Department of Pharmacognosy cover areas in botany and chemistry of medicinal plants, their cultivation, evaluation and their role in promotion and maintenance of health.

THE PHARMACOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Pharmacology is a major subject in drug discovery. It deals with the research, discovery, and characterization of chemicals which show biological effects and the elucidation of cellular and organismal function in relation to these chemicals. Area of research involves Oncology, fertility, infertility, anti-fertility, diabetes, Obesity and cell line based molecular research, CNS disorders including stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, drug abuse, and cardiovascular complications. Efforts are being made to develop animal models of mentioned disorders and NCEs including synthetic, semi-synthetic and herbals are evaluated for efficacy. Further investigations are done on safety and toxicity parameters.


Research Areas

Standardization of medicinal plants, phytochemical evaluation of medicinal plants with respect to essential oil constituents and other secondary metabolites and validation of various herbal remedies. In this regard, medicinal plants with antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant activities as well as wound healing, antiinflammatory, antidiabetic, antihypertensive, antiasthmatic, anthelmintics properties among others have been investigated.

Services

The department has a Physic garden (botanical garden) in which plants are grown and displayed primarily for scientific and educational purposes.The garden additionally serves the following purposes:
A readily available source of medicinal plants for use by students for teaching and learning.
It serves as a cultivated source of plants which may be very sparsely distributed and therefore difficult to come by in large quantities.
It also serves as a cultivated source of plants which are becoming extinct or on the verge of extinction.
It serves as a source of raw materials for the development of new drugs It serves as a readily available source of plants for use in research work.

The main objectives of the course are:

To give students a basic knowledge of various types of plants cells, tissues and organs, to raise the awareness of important plant families yielding clinically useful drugs, to describe how plant drugs and herbal remedies are prepared and to begin to recognize adulteration and its detection morphologically and chemically.
Authentication and quality evaluation on various herbal drugs for the purpose of selecting proper species for cultivation.
The aim of the course is to ensure that the pharmacy students understand the subject of phytochemistry, especially volatile oil constituents. The discussion of theoretical concepts of extraction and use of various chromatographic techniques.
To provide students with detailed knowledge about major plant constituent, their identification and structures, isolation, purification and quantitative estimation.
To recognize medicinally useful represented of different classes of constituents and their
pharmacological actions.
Instruments/Facility
Rotary vacuum evaporator, Electrical Shaker, HPLC, Distillation Unit, Flouroscence Microscope and Centrifuge.

THE PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

Medicinal Chemistry is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry & Pharmacy involved with the designing & developing of pharmaceutical drugs. It involves many aspects like identification, synthesis, isolation, purification and characterization of new chemical entities suitable for therapeutic use.
On the other hand it includes the study of existing drugs their biological properties and structure-activity relationships between the drugs with the aim to explore and elaborate such fundamentals in a systematic manner.
Our Pharmaceutical chemistry department is designed keeping in view all the above and consist of two labs devoted to medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic pharmaceutical chemistry & biochemistry.
The laboratory is well equipped and developed with the help of supporting skilled knowledgeable industrial experienced faculties & to provide the best possible modern Hi-tech facilities for overall sound development of future GRKISTIANS.

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department has sufficient space to perform experimental work and well furnished with equipments / machines as per AICTE and PCI requirements.

List of equipments
1. Hot air oven
2. Vaccum pump
3. Conductivity meter
4. Hot plates
5. UV Cabinet
6. TLC kit with Chamber
7. Heating mantle
8. Fume hood
9. Mechanical stirrer
10. Refrigerator
11. Digital pH meter
12. Melting point apparatus
13. Magnetic stirrer with hot plate
14. Analytical balance
15. Distillation plant
16. Water bath
17 UV- VISIBLE spectrophotometer
18 HPLC
19 Precise Analytical balance
20 Microwave oven
21 Rotary evaporator
22 Water jet vacuum pump
23 Photo colorimeter
24 Karl fisher apparatus
25 Polarimeter
26 IR moisture balance
27 Electronic single pan balance.