Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Computer aided drug design and synthesis of antitubercular agents

Design and synthesis of antimicrobial agents

Pharmacophore based drug design

High throughput screening

Impurity synthesis

Pharmaceutics

Design and development of following drug delivery techniques:

• Oral Drug Delivery - Film Coated Tablets and bilayer tablets
• Liposomes, SLNs for ocular drug delivery
• SMEDDS for oral as well as vaginal drug delivery
• Bioadhesive delivery systems
• Targeted drug delivery systems
• Nanotechnology based targeted drug delivery system for oral squamous cell tumour, colon cancer and tuberculosis
• Optimization of pharmaceutical formulations using design of experiments (DoE)

Bioavailability and dissolution enhancement techniques

Solubility enhancement of poorly water soluble drug

Pharmaceutical analysis

Analytical method development for estimation of API in dosage form

Development and validation of UV, HPLC, and stability-indicating assay method

Bio-analytical method development

Pharmacology

Neurobiology and behavioural pharmacology

Metabolic disorders such as diabetes, obesity etc.

Studies on following systems:

• Cardiovascular
• Anti-inflammatory
• Immunomodulatory
• Haematology

Pharmacognosy

Studies on Phytochemicals

Bioactivity-directed fractionation of medicinal plant extracts for isolation of phytoactives

Phytochemical and biological profiling of herbal extracts

Standardization of herbal products by new analytical techniques