The goal of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is to improve the knowledge and comprehension of undergraduates and postgraduates in a variety of pharmacy-related chemistry courses, including Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Chemistry of Natural Products.
The department's research is divided into three primary categories: Pharmaceutical Analysis, Drug Discovery, and Research on Natural Products. Computational Chemistry plays a major role in Pharmaceutical Chemistry research by facilitating the synthesis of small organic compounds. This helps in the drug discovery process.
The Department is equipped with the necessary infrastructure needed to ensure that undergraduate and postgraduates can utilize the advanced instruments in the Central Instrument Room and Instrument Research Centre, which including HPLC, UV spectrophotometer, FTIR Spectrophotometer, Rotary Vacuum Evaporator, Microwave Synthesizer, Centrifuge, Deep freezer, Melting point apparatus, and more.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry has adequate faculty members. The major areas of research in this Department include Computer Aided Drug Design, lead discovery and lead optimization from natural, semi-synthetic and synthetic sources, structure-activity relationship studies followed by pharmacological evaluation of synthesized and characterized analogues against various drug targets such as anti-cancer, anti-viral and neurodegenerative disorders. The Faculty has many publications in Journals of good impact factor. Several papers have been presented by the faculty in Conferences, Symposia and Seminars of National and International repute besides being invited as speakers in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops etc.,
Research Projects: The department has successfully completed many research projects funded by various agencies such as RGUHS.