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DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICS
Drug development has become increasingly complex, time consuming and expensive. As a result there is an increased focus on making clinically established drugs perform better therapeutically in terms of efficacy, safety and improved patient compliance by designing novel and patentable technologies or delivery systems. This has led to a paradigm shift in drug delivery technologies from conventional dosage forms to controlled release and sophisticated delivery systems. These systems are based on the concepts of biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics driven by pharmacodynamic activity and therapeutic needs. The emergence of the Biopharmaceutic Classification System (BCS) based on the two tenets of absorption namely solubility and permeability has further simplified drug development program form a regulatory perspective. About 20 drugs, which are not only of clinical significance but also, model drugs representing various classes were chosen by the department to carry out research and projects in the area of conventional and novel drug delivery systems, biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetic evaluation, bioavailability and bioequivalence testing, preformulation, formulation development and stability testing.
The department of pharmaceutics is one of the key departments of the Institute. It is equipped with state of the art facilities to undertake research in drug development and delivery. In the frontier area of Biomaterial research, the focus will be for synthesis and characterization of new biodegradable polymer, their formulations for various drug delivery systems, to improve surface biocompatibility of medical devices and their invitro/invivo evaluation. To strengthen our research potential, nanotechnology will be utilized to prepare effective carriers to deliver the drugs at diseases targets and effort will be taken to initiate gene delivery program in our department.
The Academic Records of the Department
- The Department of Pharmaceutics is being recognized as Research centre leading to the award of Ph.D in Pharmaceutics by the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai.
- Dept. of Pharmaceutics has Post Graduate course with 9 annual intake.
- Many industrial collaborative research projects are being undertaken.
- The faculty members of the department are well qualified and experienced in their specialization.
- The laboratories are well equipped with sophisticated equipments.
- A pilot plant of liquid oral section is established in the department with AICTE grant under EMD scheme.
- The faculty members of the department attended number of National and International Seminars & Conferences. They published their
research findings in National & International reputed Journals.
- 55 research papers have been published till date. More than 60 papers have been presented in National and International Conferences.
- The department is expertise in research areas such as development
& valuation of newer formulations, targeted drug delivery system, pre-formulation incompatbility studies, enzyme technology and soil Actinomycetes isolation for production of newer antibiotics.
- M.Pharm students are awarded with scholarship from various funding agencies like AICTE, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu Pharmaceutical Sciences Welfare Trust (TNPSWT) and Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST), Chennai.
- Conducted National level seminars and workshops sponsored by various funding agencies like MHRD, Government of India, AICTE, PCI and ISTE
- Research proposal sanctioned with a fund of Rs.8.5/- Lakhs from AICTE, New Delhi under Research Promotion Scheme.
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