Pharmaceutical chemistry and Medicinal chemistry are disciplines at the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and various other biological specialties, where they are involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical agents, or bio-active molecules (drugs).
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab is meant for testing and identification of impurities; synthesis and purification of chemical compounds; identification of medicinally active compounds; and analysis of biological samples like urine, blood etc.
The research interests of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry are focused on many targets. One of the major aspects is design, synthesis and investigation of mechanism of action, as well as physicochemical properties of designed biologically active compounds.
The relationship between structure and activity of various drug classes (use of Computational Chemistry in Drug Design) as well as pharmaco-chemical studies of natural products, and the relationship between their structure and activity is another direction of research.