Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with the practical aspects of manufacturing, formulation and evaluation of various pharmaceutical dosage forms. The subject also helps the students to acquire knowledge and skill to apply quality assurance principles, including legal and ethical aspects involving drugs, delivering a quality assured product as per the pharmacopoeial, WHO and ISO standards. The pharmaceutics department has a Pharmaceutics Laboratory I (Dispensing and Formulation Labs) and Pharmaceutics Laboratory II (Unit Operation Lab).
Pharmaceutics Laboratory-I:
This well furnished laboratory caters to the practical requirements of the various subjects like dosage form design, physical pharmacy, dispensing pharmacy, pharmaceutical engineering and unit operations. The facilities available in this lab ensure the complete knowledge of manufacturing of different formulation. This lab also aid in training the students to teach about the dispensing of the drugs in a hospital by a pharmacist and about community pharmacy practice.
Pharmaceutics Laboratory-II:
In this laboratory experiments and research work carried out on formulation of different dosage forms, technology based experiments as well as Novel Drug Delivery Systems (NDDS). It deals with the study of oral, parenteral, dermal, transdermal and mucosal dosage forms; it also focuses on the preparation and evaluation of cosmetics. It also covers basic topics like development of new drugs, preformulation, along with principles of formulation design.