| National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) | |
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| Location | IDPL, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (India) |
NIPER Hyderabad is a premier institute offering pharmaceutical sciences education. The institute caters to the need of pharmaceutical R&D laboratories and industry around the country.It is a National level institute in Pharmaceutical Sciences with proclaimed objectives of becoming centre of excellence for advance science and research in pharmaceutical sciences. Previously, there was only one NIPER at Mohali. Later, the Govt. of India (Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers) has started 6 such institutes under the aegis of this Ministry. NIPER-Hyderabad is one among them. This institute offers a 2 year PG degree course; MS (Pharm.) in 4 disciplines ( Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Analysis & Pharmaceutics ) and is located at the former R&D Centre of IDPL, Balangar, Hyderabad. Presently, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad a premier CSIR Research Laboratories, is the Mentor Institute for NIPER, Hyderabad.
This is being developed as a National Centre to cater to the needs of pharmaceutical academia and the industry. Very soon, it is likely to become the Centre of Excellence for Advance Studies and Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Hence, the Govt. has awarded the status of “Institute of National Importance” to it. This institute will play an important role in the Human Resource Development for the ever growing Indian Pharmaceutical industry, which has been in the forefront of India’s science based industries with wide ranging capabilities in this important field of drug manufacture.
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The institute has its campus in its own site of 150-acre (0.61 km2) area, in Balanagar – Hyderabad. The campus, with its greenery frontage and well laid our and spacious buildings, provides and environment which is very much conducive to a bright educational pursuit.
The library at NIPER-Hyderabad is being developed in a manner that it can eventually gain the status of National Library and Information Centre on Pharmaceutical Sciences. A beginning has been made with the subscription of 6 International and 9 National journals. The library has Chemical Abstracts from 1963 to 1983 and Cumulative Indices up to eleventh bound volumes. A number of CD-ROM databases such as International Pharmaceutical Abstracts and Drug Information Full Text (1963-1998 Scifinder-Scholar online bibliographic database for Chemical Abstracts also available. The library is accessible to all the Pharmacy professionals from the country information to the academia, Researchers and the industry personnel. The library has obtained institutional membership of IICT-Library.
At present NIPER-Hyderabad belongs to 400 Books for three disciplines which are M.S. (Pharm) in Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Pharmacology & Toxicology. Library possesses 14750 Books belongs to Old IDPL R & D Centre, 1500 bound volumes of journals and Chemical Abstracts & Biological Abstracts.
Computer centre at NIPER-Hyderabad serves the needs of faculty, staff and students in updating the literature and communication. It also facilitates the faculty and students with 75 higher end desktops which are connected in network. In addition to Windows 7, Vista operating systems, this centre has general software like MS Office 2010, Antivirus and other free software e.g. Guassview, ChemDraw, Chem BioOffice, GOLD and other molecular modelling software. For day to day computer practicals and literature retrieval from internet, 50 desktops are utilized. For molecular modelling / Drug discovery research activities, NIPER-Hyderabad procured license for a complete suite of Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) software, Chemical Computing Group, Canada. For high performance computing, two work stations are available and are used for free modelling software like AUTODOCK, NAMD etc. This centre is equipped with 2 Mbit/s internet Lease Line (1:1) connectivity with six servers set up in a rack which allows the users to have access to the email, internet etc. These servers were installed with windows Server 2003 and Linux (Red hat) operating system. Programming compilers including C, C++ and Java have also been installed. Establishment institutional email facility in progress. NIPER Hyderabad also has access to scientific database i.e. ACS SciFinder. Other computer related accessories including high speed and network laser printer (colour and black & white) and scanners are also available. Computer laboratory kept opened from 8.00 AM till 8.00 PM for students and staff.
The institute offers education and research facilities in area of three pharmaceutical disciplines
1. Medicinal Chemistry department is engaged in the following areas of research
2. Pharmaceutical Analysis department is involved in the diversified activities,including active involvement in industrial research projects.The key areas of research are :
3. Pharmacology and Toxicology d/span>epartment has the facilities to carry out pharmacological screening of NCEs. The department can enter into project collaborations in regulatory toxicological testing, viz., acute, sub-chronic and chronic toxicity testing. The departmental research activities are concentrated in the following areas:
NIPER Hyderabad is offering following courses in 4 disciplines
Discipline Courses offered Number of seats in the current year
Medicinal Chemistry M.S. (Pharm) 30 Pharmacology & Toxicology M.S. (Pharm) 15 Pharmaceutical Analysis M.S. (Pharm) 14 Pharmaceutics M.S. (Pharm) 16 Ph.D course in the three disciplines is likely to be commenced in 2010. Information on this, when finalized will be made know through press and website.