Industrial Visit of Sardar Patel College To National Institute Of
Pharmaceutical Education And Research(NIPER)-HYD
The industrial visit to NIPER Hyderabad has been fixed for 9th February, 2024 from 11am
onwards. Prof. Nanduri Srinivas,
Head, Dept of Chemical Sciences, has been the person of contact for all the
communication with our college. A total of
twenty eight students of M.Sc I and I years, along with five faculty members visited
NIPER-Hyderabad on 09th February
2024.
Dr. Neelima, HoD, Chemisty, Sardar Patel college, arrived at the venue by 10.15am in
order to interact with the
concerned faculty Dr. Jitendra Madan, HoD of Pharmaceutics department assigned for the
purpose and to know about the
planning of the tour, before the actual visit begins. There are four departments at
NIPER, Hyderabad viz. Pharmaceutics,
Pharmaceutical Analysis, Chemical Sciences, Pharmacology, and toxicology. The students
and faculty arrived at the venue
by 10:50a.m. Dr. Jitendra Madan, received and guided the students to be seated in one of
their classrooms. He then
introduced other faculty members and research scholars to the students and briefed them
about the institution. The
students were divided into three groups, led by few research scholars like Mr. Srikanth
and Mr. Harshil at NIPER to take
the group on tour around the institution.
Students and faculty members were able to interact with research scholars and eminent
staff and also learn about vast
instrumentation facility that includes Infra Red spectrophotometer, UV
spectrophotometer, NMR, Scanning Electron
Microscope, dissolution tanks, IR pellet maker, HPLC, GC, rotavapors, fumehoods,
icemaking machines, and invivo and in
vitro labs.
Weighing instruments that could weigh upto 0.001 micrograms, that cost saround 8lakhs
were seen at one of the research
labs. This weighing machine is especially used for weighing the impurities in a drug.
Dr. Nandkumar took the team around
their animal facility at NIPER, which provides for the in vivo studies. The animal
facility procures transgenic animals
from London, UK. The facility maintains utmost cleanliness and follows Indian or British
Pharmacopia guidelines for
animal care, as per the need.
Towards the closing, the HOD, chemical sciences Dr. Nanduri invited the faculty members
to his cabin, where the team
discussed about fostering a cordial relationship between NIPER and Sardar Patel College
for being in continuous
relationship and goodwill in future for useful intellectual inputs from NIPER and to
organize industrial visits,
extension lectures, summer internships etc. Also present during the discussion were
other academicians cum researchers
Dr. Madhavi and Dr. Vinay.
Students were able to appreciate the facilities, the work culture and good work ethics.
Students also were made aware of
the possibility to get admission for a PhD. with valid GATE and NIPER-JEE Scores. The
visit has been a very productive,
useful and informative one for all the students and faculty members.
NIPER extended their excellent hospitality all through the visit, from our stepping into
the institution until we exited. NIPER offered lunch to all the faculty members and
refreshments to all the students at the canteen facility. The team dispersed after a
brief photo session with all the co-ordinators of NIPER.
