M.Sc. - Pharmaceutical Chemistry
The two year post graduate
course in Pharmaceutical chemistry is conducted
by HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttrakhand,
a well known UGC ranked university and is fully
approved by Government of Uttrakhand.
Pharmaceutical industry can
be looked upon as a life line industry engaged
in inventing and manufacturing drugs and pharmaceuticals
to improve the health of people. The size of
the Global Pharmaceutical industry is estimated
to be around US$500 billion (In Indian currency
Rs. 25, 00,000 crores) and is growing at a very
rapid pace.
With a degree in Pharmaceutical
Chemistry you can make an important difference
in the lives of patients suffering from disease
and the physicians who treat them.
Pharmaceutical chemists use
both sophisticated instrumentation and simple
analytical procedures to study drugs and chemicals
which are present in drug samples or taken from
humans or animals who have been treated with
a drug. Pharmaceutical chemists may develop
new methods to determine if an experimental
drug is actually absorbed by the tissues where
it needs to work. These chemists typically work
in teams of professionals during the development
and testing of new drugs.
The demand is strong for professionals
with expertise in pharmaceutical Chemistry.
You can pursue rewarding positions in.
• Private Pharmaceutical industries.
• Government laboratories of CSIR and
ICAR. Such as the Food and Drug Administration.
Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection
Firms and in NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH and
the CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
• In Industrial, where you may function
as part of a drug development team or work in
production, quality control, or medical representative.
The course structure
includes, Analytical methods & Biostatistics,
Basic Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Drug designing
and drug delivery system, Stereochemistry and
Reaction Mechanism, Chemistry of heterocyclic
compounds and nature products. Biopharmaceutical
chemotherapeutic agents, Pharmacodynamics.
ELIGIBILITY:-
Bachelor
in any science discipline with 50% marks.
