Department of Pharmaceutics


Pharmaceutics is the
discipline of pharmacy that deals with all facets of the process of
turning a new chemical entity (NCE) into a safe and effective
medication. Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design.
Pharmaceutics deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into a
dosage form. Pharmaceutics is a subject that is included in all four
years of B.Pharm.
Apart from this, Pharmaceutics department handles the following subjects:
- Physical Pharmacy: This subject deals with application of physical chemical principles to problems in the pharmaceutical sciences.
- Pharmaceutical Engineering: It is the study of machinery involved in large scale manufacturing of dosage forms.
- Microbiology: The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms and their effects on other living organisms.
- Dispensing Pharmacy: Handles development of formulations customized for individual patients.
- Hospital Pharmacy and Drug Store Management: It is a specialized
field of pharmacy which forms an integrated part of patient health care
in a health facility.
- Cosmetology: It Deals with the formulation of varied cosmetic preparations and their use.
- Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics: It is defined as the
science and study of the ways in which the pharmaceutical formulation of
administered agents can influence their pharmacodynamic and
pharmacokinetic behavior.
- Novel Drug Delivery Systems It is associated with the study of new techniques of drug delivery.
The commo lab
facilities include equipment and machines to deal with dosage
development including liquid orals, ointments, creams, gels, powders,
capsules, tablets.