Academic Facilities

At Chitkara College of Pharmacy (CCP) a wide range of academic facilities are provided to the students to assist them at every stage of their course. These include high-tech, well-equipped laboratories in the Departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy, which serve as a strong framework for our graduates to help them develop capabilities to become world-class pharmacists and scientists. Academically as well as socially productive in-house projects and research work are taken-up in these laboratories.

The classroom and laboratory infrastructure is backed with well-furnished seminar halls and conference rooms where presentations on scientific and other topics are organized by faculty members and students.

The institute has sophisticated manufacturing and analytical equipment that include:

• High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) machine (from Shimadzu, Japan)
• Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer
• USP dissolution apparatus
• Multi-station tablet punching machine
• Fluidized bed drier
• R M granulators
• Lyophiliser
• Laminar flow bench
• Refrigerated centrifuge
• Ultrasonicator
• Microscope with camera

Pharmacology equipment includes pole climbing apparatus, actophotometer, electroconvulsiometer, water maze, chymographs, tail flick apparatus, Histamine Chambers etc. All laboratories are well-furnished with appropriate numbers of glassware, chemicals and additional preparation, and technical staff-support rooms.

Laboratories at CCP

• Pharmacology Lab

The lab is equipped with sophisticated instruments like isolated organ bath, assemblies for isolated tissue experiments, rota rod apparatus, analgesiomenter, convulsiometer, Cook’s pole apparatus etc. Various experiments set up of the lab include isolated tissue experiments. In vivo pharmacological screening experiments for CNS, CVS, Respiratory, GIT, Renal drugs.

• Anatomy and Physiology Lab

The lab has sophisticated instruments like haemocytometers, b.p. measurement apparatus, ECG machine, spirometer, muscle physiology experiment apparatus, Isolated heart experiments, anatomical models and charts etc. Various experiments set up of the lab include basic haematological experiments, respiratory and cardiovascular physiology experiments, and experiments on human anatomy using histological slides, anatomy charts and models.

• Physical Pharmacy

The lab is equipped with modern instruments like equipment for Reynolds number measurement, balances, microscopes, various manometers and flow meters, distillation assembly. Various experiments set up of the lab include pharmaceutical engineering, unit processes in pharmaceutics, study of physical properties of various materials used for formulation.

• Pharmaceutical Technology Lab

The lab contains sophisticated instruments like 10 station rotary tablet machine, ampoule washing, filling, sealing and clarity testing apparatus, capsule filing machines, ointment filling machine, collapsible tube crimping machine, 6 station digital dissolution test apparatus, disintegration apparatus, friability and hardness tester for tablets, infra red moisture balance, tincture press, dry granulator, wet granulator, tablet coating pan, ball mill, planetory mixer.

• Industrial Pharmacy Lab

The lab has instruments like deionizer, suppository moulds, centrifuge etc. Various experiments set up of the lab include drug formulation preparation, stability studies and in process testing studies can be conducted in this lab.

• Pharmaceutical microbiology and Biotechnology Lab

The lab has a varied collection of instruments like aseptic room, laminar air flow bench, auto claves, B.O.D. incubators, dry heat sterilizers, filtration assembly for sterilization, antibiotic zone reader, digital colony counting apparatus, refrigerator, microscopes etc. Various experiments set up of the lab include staining and culturing of bacteria using microbial assay, sterility testing.

• Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab

The lab is well equipped with instruments like Fume cupboards, Centrifuges, microscopes, glassware and other requirements for qualitative and quantitative estimation of various biochemicals. Various experiments set up of the lab include qualitative and quantitative estimation of various biochemicals.

• Pharmaceutical Analysis Lab

The lab is equipped with sophisticated instruments like Analytical Balances, equipments and glassware pertaining to quantitative analysis of various drugs by I.P., B.P., U.S.P. methods. Various experiments set up of the lab include Acid base, redox, complexometric, Gravimetric, Non-aqueous, potentiometric, spectrophotometric titrations, Karl Fischer titrations, fluorimetric estimations, conductometric estimation of buffer capacity etc.

• Instrumentation Lab

The lab has sophisticated instruments like Colorimeters, Conductivity meters, Digital pH meters, Flame-photometers, Karl-Fischers apparatus, photofluorimeter, polarimeter, potentiometer, refractrometer, spectrophotometer. Various experiments set up of the lab include Experiments based on Instrumental methods of analysis.

• Pharmacognosy Lab – I

The lab contains instruments like microscopes, soxhlet apparatuses, tlc spreader, column chromatography apparatus, charts for plants microscopy, herbal drugs museum. Various experiments set up of the lab include experiments pertaining to study of macroscopic, microscopic and chemical analysis of herbal drugs, extraction of active constituents using various techniques.

• Pharmacognosy Lab – II

The lab is equipped with sophisticated instruments like Microscopes, Extraction instruments etc. Various experiments set up of the lab include pharmacognostic and phytochemical studies of various plant drugs.