Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

The Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology is located in the Second floor of the academic building of the college. The department provides a multidisciplinary and international environment that promotes enriching interactions among faculty, postdoctoral fellows, staff and graduate students.

Now graduate students are immediately integrated in the life of the department through their coursework, research rotation, students freely choose their research area and PH.D. advisor, while maintaining intellectual and scientific contacts with other units.

The faculty encourage students and post-doctoral fellows to initiate and pursue collaborations that require expertise in different but complementary disciplines such as Chemistry/Biology, Pharmacology/Structural Biology, Biochemistry/Cellular Biology and Molecular/Computational Biology.

Most of the post graduate students doing research in the department are in the Pharmaceutical Biotechnology track. The track offers a variety of research opportunities in basic and applied sciences such as mechanisms of antibiotic action, rational drug design, protein synthesis, protein folding, cancer research, microbial genomics, molecular and cellular biology and bioprocess technology.

Graduates from the Pharmaceutical Biotechnology track are expected to be able to assume research and administrative positions in the pharmaceutical industry, faculty and research positions in academia, and research and administrative positions in government agencies. Recent graduates have gone on to industrial research positions in biotechnology companies and to academic research and teaching positions at leading universities.

Title of Research Programs implemented / being implemented

• Development of a formulation of NIM 76 Pessaries (DIPAS, Govt. of India).

• NIM-76 Anti-microbial screening studies (DIPAS, Govt. of India)

• Anticancer targeting of peptides and proteins with Mab (AICTE, New Delhi)

• Antiviral Screening of Medicinal Plants (Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India)

• Enzymatic Modification of cicer arietinum (Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India)

• Anti-tumor screening of Medicinal Plants (Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India)

• Screening and evaluation of anticancer potentials form herbal resources of Nilgiris (Department of biotechnology, Government of India).

• Screening and evaluation of anti cancer potentials from herbal resources of Nilgiris(AICTE).

• Antiviral Screening of Medicinal Plants form Nilgiris(AICTE)

Faculty

 

Department Publication from June-2011 to May 2012

International:-03

1. Design and evaluation of chitosan nanoparticles as novel drug carrier for the delivery of rivastigmine to treat Alzheimer’s disease.Barnabas Wilson,Malay K,Samanta,Madaswamy S.Muthu,and Ganesan Vinothapooshan,Therapeutic Delivery (2011)2 (5),509-609
2. Consecutive Assessment of Taxanes  by Prominence UFLC from Biological Samples,Manjunatha Narayanappa,Anil Dubala,Rizwanbasha Khatwal,Jayasankar Kosaraju,Kalpesh Patel,Dinesh Sindhe,Malay K.Samanta,Journal of Pharmacy Research Vol 4,Issue 11,November 2011
3. Bioanalytical Method Development and Validation of Sitagliptin Phosphate by RP-HPLC and its application to Pharmacokinetic study.AnilDubala,Rizwanbsha,Jayasankar,Venkat Meda and Malay K.Samanta,International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,Vol 4,Issue 2,2012 Page No.691-694.