The Laboratories
Department of Pharmaceutics
The Institute has three undergraduate Pharmaceutics
Laboratories namely Pharmaceutics Laboratory
(Industrial Pharmacy Lab), Pharmaceutics
Laboratory II and Pharmaceutics Laboratory
III (Physical Pharmacy Lab) and Pharmaceutics
Lab for M.Pharm. The Labs are well equipped
with equipments, glasswares and chemicals
to carry out the necessary experimentation
work as prescribed in the syllabus of B.Pharm.
Machine Room
The machine room has a well built aura of
machines generally encountered in Pharmaceutical
Industry like 16 station Rotary Punching
Machine, Pan Coater, Hand Operated Single
Punch Machine, Dissolution Rate Test Apparatus
(I.P Standard), Disintegration Rate Test
Apparatus (U.S.P. standard), Silverson emulsifier,
ROPP Cap Bottle Sealing Machine, Ampoule
filling and sealing machine, Bottle filling
machine, Mechanical and Gyratory Sieve Shaker,
Filter Press, Reynolds Apparatus, Venturimeter
and Orifice meter, Vacuum filter Unit, Friability
Test Apparatus, Capsule filling machine,
Mechanical Stirrer, Double and Cuboidal
Cone Blender, Micropulverizer, Root crusher,
Ointment filling machine, Ointment Crimping
machine.
This room provides a window for young and
aspiring pharmacist to be well versed with
the current Pharmaceutical Scenario.
Pharmaceutical Microbiology Laboratory
This laboratory is built with an insight
into the Biotechnology Industry with instruments
like B.O.D. Incubator, Aseptic Room with
Laminar Air Flow Cabinet and U.V. Cabinet,
Deep Freezer, Digital Oven, Incubators,
Double Door Ovens, Bacterial Colony Counter,
Autoclaves.
Once out of the laboratory, a student will
be well versed with the microbiological
part of the course.
Instrument Room
The instrument room consist of Double Beam
UV Spectrophotometer (Systronics 2101),
Karl - Fischer Instrument, Abbe's Refractometer,
Nephelo Turbidimeter, Polarimeter, pH meter,
Conductivity meter, Potentiometer , I.R.
Moisture Balance and Electronic Single Pan
Balance.
These instruments are effectively used
by undergraduate students for analysis of
drugs and their formulations.
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• Pharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory
• Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory for
M.Pharm
Separate
balance room is provided with each
laboratory. These Laboratories help
in acclimatizing the student with
the chemistry aspect of the Pharmacy
profession which helps them in their
carrier as an analytical chemist,
Research and Development and in Post
graduate studies.
Advanced Instrument Laboratory
The Advanced instrument Lab consist
of state of the art Instruments like
UV Double beam Spectrophotometer,
Shimadzu 1700, High Performance Liquid
Chromatography (HPLC), Cecil, FTIR-8400
S-Shimadzu, Single Pan Balance, Shimadzu,
Photomicrograph, Brookefield's Viscometer,
I.R Moisture Balance, Flame photometer,
6 station Dissolution Rate Test Apparatus.
This Lab caters to
the needs of post-graduate research
projects to be carried out under the
auspices of U.P. Technical University,
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Department of Pharmacognosy
It is equipped with instruments like Soxhlet
Apparatus and Clavengers Apparatus for extraction
and isolation of crude drugs, Microtome
for cutting fine section of the drugs, Bio-Visual
aids like - Permanent Slides, Compound and
Dissecting Microscope, Medicinal plant charts,
Visualizing wooden cabinets of crude drugs
etc.
The Museum
The Institute possesses a large museum consisting
of more than 100 crude drugs, herbarium
sheets, botanical specimens & charts
of the drugs & plants, coloured slides
of medicinal plants, patent medicines &
containers of common usage in medicines.
The Medicinal Garden
The college comprises of a beautifully landscaped
medicinal garden consisting of more than
125 plants of medicinal importance like
Vinca rosea, Ocimum sanctum, Rouwolfia serpentina,
Foeniculum vulgare, Coriandrum sativum,
Saraca indica, Datura innoxia,Mentha spicata,
Gossypium harbaceum, Olea europoea, Ricinus
communis, Elettaria cardamomum, Curcuma
longa, Azadirachta indica, Tribulus terrestris,
Asparagus racemosus etc.
Department of Pharmacology
The Pharmacology lab consists of equipments
to identify the activity of various drug
samples. These include Digital Actophotometer,
Eddy's Hot plate, Histamine Chamber, Plethysmograph,
Cook's Pole Climbing Apparatus, Convulsiometer,
Pyrogen Telethermometer and Single and Double
organ Bath with Kymograph to study the effect
of drugs on animals. Moreover the college
has started experiment conduction on simulated
softwares.
A student becomes well versed with handling
and experimentation on animals both in laboratory
(manually) and on computers (simulated softwares
) once out of the laboratory.
Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology
Laboratory
This laboratory consists of bones, human
skeleton model, various charts and models
of brain, ear, human digestive system etc,
which once visually encountered will help
a student to grasp the basics of the pharmaceutical
profession.
Computer
Lab
The Institute encompasses a spacious
computer lab with P-IV computers connected
to 40 nodes. The lab is provided with
256 kbps dedicated lease line internet
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