Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology

Overview

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology was established in 1972 at BIT Mesra and is a robust scientific community with highly qualified and competent faculties, postgraduate students, research fellows and visiting scientists. The Department is well-equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructural facilities for teaching and research.

The Department encourages and supports studies involving a range of research strategies, which are supported by various national and international funding agencies like UGC, AICTE, DRDO, CSIR, ICAR, ICMR, DST, BMBF (Germany), UGC-UKIERI, etc. The Department also has collaboration with Institute of Biochemistry, University of Luebeck, Germany; Laboratoire Architecture et Fonction des Macromelécules Biologiques, Départment de Viologie Structurale et Drug Design, Marseille Cedex 09 France; De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and the University of Turin, Italy, Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Chennai, India, for research in the area of antiviral agents.

Young Faculties are also supported for post-doctoral research abroad. A few faculty members have also been on the panel of invited speakers at international conferences held in the USA, Singapore, Germany, Austria, and the UK.

Vision

To become a Centre of Excellence in teaching and research for creating technical manpower to meet the technological needs in the area of healthcare system contributing towards the socio-economic development of the country.

Mission

To develop state of the art education and research at undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral levels in different areas of pharmaceutical sciences and technology.
To provide excellent infrastructural facilities to strengthen research and development activities.
To extend proper academic guidance and career counseling to students in order to bridge the gap between academia and industry as per needs of the society.
To develop effective pedagogical and research potential among the faculties.
To create pharmaceutical knowledge pool with innovative, ethical and leadership qualities to serve the cause of the society
To promote collaboration with academia, industries and research organizations at national and international levels in the areas of mutual interests.