Pharmaceutics


Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) or drug into a medication to be used safely and effective by patients.It is also called the science of dosage from design.There are many chemicals with pharmalogical properties,but need special measures to help them achieve therapeutically relevant amounts at their sites of action.Pharmaceutics helps relate the formulation of a pure drug to their delivery and disposition in the body.Pharmaceutics deals with formulation of pure drug substance into a dosage form.

In course work,emphasis is placed on fandamentals underlying these subject areas.The Pharmaceutics Department offers the Undergraduate programme (B.Pharm), trains the students in pharmacueutical Technology, Pharmaceutical dosage forms, and advances in Drug delivery system.

The core activity of the department is the design and pre-clinical testing of tailor-made drug delivery systems for site-specific, time- and/or rate-controlled delivery of small molecular weight drugs, therapeutic proteins, nucleic acids and antigens for therapy and prevention of life-threatening diseases such as cancer, inflammation and infectious diseases.