Department of Pharmaceutics Laboratory
Equipped for solid, liquid, and semi-solid dosage form compounding, physical pharmacy investigations, and modern pharmaceutical manufacturing demonstrations.
- Formulation Units: Preparation of syrups, elixirs, emulsions, suspensions, and sterile preparations.
- Apparatus: Ointment slabs, mechanical stirrers, water baths, autoclave, filtration units, and bulk mixers.
- Demonstration Machinery: Rotary tablet compression models, coating pans, and suppository moulds.
Key Equipment & Apparatus:
Chemical Safety & Instruments:
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory
Designed for qualitative chemical identification, limit tests for impurities (arsenic, lead, heavy metals, chlorides), volumetric assays, and organic drug synthesis under strict safety protocols.
- Analytical Assays: Acid-base, redox, complexometric, and non-aqueous titrations per Indian Pharmacopoeia monographs.
- Purity Testing: Identification reactions of pharmaceutical organic and inorganic chemicals.
- Safety Features: Continuous ventilation, neutralization sinks, and emergency eye-wash showers.
Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry Laboratory
Dedicated to macroscopic and microscopic evaluation of medicinal plants, extraction of natural phytoconstituents (alkaloids, glycosides, tannins, flavonoids), and botanical herbarium curation.
- Microscopy: Compound binocular and dissection microscopes for morphological identification of plant powders.
- Phytochemical Extraction: Soxhlet continuous hot extraction and Clevenger apparatus for volatile oil isolation.
- Crude Drug Museum: Over 100 genuine botanical drug specimens labeled per taxonomic classifications.
Phytochemical Hardware:
Physiological Models & Sets:
Human Anatomy & Physiology (HAP) Laboratory
Providing deep conceptual and diagnostic practical training on vital human organ systems, hematology indices, cardiovascular measurements, and histological tissues.
- Hematological Training: Blood grouping, bleeding & clotting time, hemoglobin estimation, total RBC/WBC counts, and ESR measurement.
- Clinical Parameters: Recording blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration, and body temperature.
- Tissue Histology: Microscopic examination of epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous tissue slides.
Central Library & Reading Hall
The institutional library houses standard reference textbooks, official pharmacopoeias (IP, BP, USP), peer-reviewed pharmaceutical journals, and digital reference access.
Policy: 2 borrower cards per student; 7 days issue tenure; renewal permitted up to 3 weeks.