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.