Pharmacology
Pharmacology is a vibrant department that assimilates diverse basic and translational scientific investigations. It was started in 2018 in Yenepoya Pharmacy College & Research Centre which provides a dynamic academic as well as research environment. Thus, promoting strong evidence- based as well as student centric teaching & training for our students. It fosters innovative, cutting- edge research in basic and clinical pharmacology, therapeutics and toxicology. It is proactive in research and promote the discovery and development of potential ayurvedic therapeutics and address the impact of environmental toxins.
VISION
Empower aspiring pharmacists with advanced knowledge and skills to become leaders in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. Cultivating a dynamic learning environment that fosters critical thinking, research excellence and ethical practices. Envision a future where pharmacists play a pivotal role in drug discovery development and rational use contributing to improve patient outcomes, advancing the pharmaceutical industry and public health worldwide.
MISSION
- To encompass students with education about the principles, drug action, discovery, theories and preclinical & clinical practical applications with advanced knowledge in pharmacology.
- To foster a research-oriented mindset among students, promoting original, innovative & translational research and collaborations to contribute for the advancement of drug development.
- To instill strong ethical values and professionalism in students by adherence to legal frameworks in pharmacological research and practice.
Goal and objectives
- Provide students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to graduate as highly qualified pharmacists.
- Develop and enhance College programs, research and services to address the needs of our professions.
- Expand our research in thrust areas like, cardiovascular diseases, neuro- pharmacology and cancer
- Acquire new expertise in toxicology and drug metabolism
- Promote interdisciplinary graduate, post graduate and doctoral pharmacology education
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Meet our Experts
Dr. Sindhu Priya E S
- DesignationAssociate Professor and HOD
- Email sindhupriya@yenepoya.edu.in
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UG |
PG |
Ph.D |
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Name
of the Institution |
Sri Padmavathi School of Pharmacy, Tirupati |
Sri
Padmavati Mahila Viswavidyalayam, Tirupati |
Yenepoya
(Deemed to be University) |
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Year of Passing |
2009 |
2011 |
2022 |
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Result |
Distinction |
Distinction |
Completed |
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Name
of the Institute |
Year |
Designation |
|
Priyadarshini
College of Pharmacy |
1 |
Lecturer/Assistant
professor |
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Vidya
Herbs Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore |
2 |
Research
Associate |
|
Yenepoya
Research Center |
3 |
Research
Assistant |
|
Yenepoya
Pharmacy College & Research Centre |
4 |
Assistant
Professor |
Ms. S Meenakshi Seshadri
- DesignationAssistant Professor Stage- 1
- Email meenakshiseshadri@yenepoya.edu.in
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UG |
PG |
Ph.D |
|
Name
of the Institution |
Sir
C R Reddy college of Pharmaceutical sciences |
Acharya
Nagarjuna University college of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Yenepoya
(Deemed to be University) |
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Year of Passing |
2014 |
2016 |
Ongoing |
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Result |
First
Class |
First
Class |
- |
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Name
of the Institute |
Year |
Designation |
|
Oxbridge collge of
Pharmacy & Raghu College of Pharmacy |
3.5 |
Assistant
Professor |
Mrs. Tahreen Taj
- DesignationAssistant Professor- Stage 2
- Email tahreentaj@yenepoya.edu.in
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Name
of the Institution |
UG |
PG |
Ph.D |
|
Karavali College of Pharmacy |
Sreedevi college of Pharmacy |
Yenepoya
(Deemed to be University) |
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|
Year
of Passing |
2015 |
2018 |
Ongoing |
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Result |
First Class |
Distinction |
- |
|
Name
of the Institute |
Year |
Designation |
|
Kanachur Hospital and Research Centre |
1 |
Pharmacist |
Mr. Muhammed Ameen M P
- DesignationAssistant Professor – Stage 1
- Email muhammedameenmp@yenepoya.edu.in
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UG |
PG |
Ph.D |
|
Name of the Institution |
Malik
Deenar College Of Pharmacy |
Sreedevi
college of Pharmacy |
- |
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Year of Passing |
2017 |
2019 |
- |
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Result |
First
Class |
Distinction |
- |
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Name
of the Institute |
Year |
Designation |
|
Safe
Medicals |
3 |
Pharmacist |
Mrs. Fathima Majida
- DesignationAssistant ProfessorAssistant Professor – Stage 1
- Email fathima.majida@yenepoya.edu.in
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UG |
PG |
Ph.D |
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Name
of the Institution |
Malik Deenar College Of Pharmacy |
Sreedevi
college of Pharmacy |
- |
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Year of Passing |
2017 |
2021 |
- |
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Result |
First
Class |
Distinction |
- |
|
Name
of the Institute |
Year |
Designation |
|
Oasis
Medicals |
2 |
Pharmacist |
Ms. Fatima Fakhrudheen Paimbachal
- DesignationAssistant Professor – Stage 1
- Email fatimafakrudheen@yenepoya.edu.in
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UG |
PG |
Ph.D |
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Name
of the Institution |
Srinivas
college of pharmacy |
Srinivas
college of pharmacy |
- |
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Year of Passing |
2020 |
2022 |
- |
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Result |
Distinction |
Distinction |
- |
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Name
of the Institute |
Year |
Designation |
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Kankanady
Medicals |
1 |
Pharmacist |
RESEARCH THRUST AREA OF THE DEPARTMENT
- Neuropharmacology
- Psychopharmacology
- Cardiovascular pharmacology
- Toxicology & Kinetic studies
- Phytopharmacological studies
- Pharmacological screening of lead compounds and active phytoconstituents
- In silico studies
- Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
- Clinical pharmacology & Pharmacovigilance
Quality Policy
The department shall strive to become a centre of excellence in the field of pharmacy with a drive to develop highly skilled professionals to cater the needs of the profession and society.
PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
COURSE OUTCOMES
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Modern Pharmaceutical Analytical Techniques/MPL 101T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Explain the theoretical principles, instrumentation & application of UV and IR spectroscopy. Fluorimeter, flame photometer. | Level 2 & 4 |
| CO2 | Understand & Apply basic principles and instrumentation of H1 NMR, C13 NMR & Mass | Level 2 & 4 |
| CO3 | Understand basic principles involved in TLC, column chromatography and paper chromatography | Level 2 |
| CO4 | Remember & understand: Theory & instrumentation of, GC, HPLC, gel chromatography, ion exchange chromatography and affinity chromatography. | Level 1 & 2 |
| CO5 | Explain Instrumentation, separation and of compounds by electrophoresis technique & natural products separation by various chromatographic techniques | Level 2 |
| CO6 | Understand& Apply: X-ray refraction and diffraction methods | Level 3 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Advanced Pharmacology-I/MPL 102T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Apply the basic pharmacological knowledge in the prevention and treatment of various diseases | Level 3 |
| CO2 | Explain the mechanism of drug action at organ system or subcellular or macromolecule and Molecular levels | Level 3 |
| CO3 | Understand the pharmacological actions, mechanism of drug action and its relevance in the treatment of different diseases in different categories of drugs | Level 2 |
| CO4 | Be aware about the pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of certain diseases | Level 5 |
| CO5 | Comprehend the drug adverse effects, contraindications and clinical uses of drugs used in treatment of diseases | Level 1 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Advanced Pharmacology-I/MPL 102T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Appreciate & adapt the regulations and ethical requirements for the uses of experimental animals | Level 2 & 6 |
| CO2 | Describe the various animals used in the drug discovery process | Level 2 |
| CO3 | Remember good laboratory practices in the maintenance and handling of experimental animals | Level 1 |
| CO4 | Evaluate the various newer preclinical screening methods involved in the drug discovery process | Level 5 |
| CO5 | Apply and correlate the preclinical data to humans | Level 3 & 4 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Advanced Pharmacology-I/MPL 102T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Explain various cellular events, functions, pathways and transduction mechanisms and how is gene is expressed | Level 2 |
| CO2 | Differentiate cell signalling pathways based on receptors and secondary messengers in the cell | Level 4 |
| CO3 | Apply the various principles of genomics, proteomics tools gene therapy and DNA technology | Level 3 |
| CO4 | Understand immunotherapeutics and applications of omics in clinical practice | Level 2 |
| CO5 | Describe & modify applications of various assays, biosimilars, cell culture techniques, and application of flowcytometry | Level 1 & 6 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Advanced Pharmacology-I/MPL 102T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Analyse and design the given samples of drugs using spectroscopic chromatographic, fluorimetry and flame photometry | Level 4 & 6 |
| CO2 | Perform experiment with rodents for CNS related activities Diuretics and GI effects | Level 5 |
| CO3 | Evaluate various drugs in the animals, withdraw blood samples and assess the efficacy & safety of given unknown compounds | Level 5 |
| CO4 | Understand & handle molecular biological techniques including in vitro cell culture techniques | Level 2 |
| CO5 | Assess the genetic alterations using molecular techniques | Level 4 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Advanced Pharmacology-I/MPL 102T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Apply basic pharmacological knowledge in the prevention and treatment of various diseases | Level 3 |
| CO2 | Explain the mechanism of drug action at the organ system/subcellular/macromolecule and molecular levels | Level 2 |
| CO3 | Describe the pharmacological actions, mechanism of drug action and its relevance in the treatment of different diseases in different categories of drugs | Level 1 and 2 |
| CO4 | Generalize about the pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of certain diseases | Level 6 |
| CO5 | Explain the adverse effects, contraindications and clinical uses of drugs used in the treatment of diseases | Level 4 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Advanced Pharmacology-I/MPL 102T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Appraise the regulation and ethical requirement for the usage of experimental animals | Level 4 and 5 |
| CO2 | Explain the various animals used in the drug discovery process | Level 4 |
| CO3 | Demonstrate good laboratory practices in maintenance and handling of experimental animals | Level 2 |
| CO4 | Describe the various newer pre-clinical screening methods involved in the drug discovery process | Level 1 and 2 |
| CO5 | Apply and correlate the pre-clinical data to humans | Level 3 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Pharmacological and Toxicological Screening Methods-II/MPL202T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Understand drug discovery process and stages in the drug discovery programme | Level 2 |
| CO2 | Explain the basics of targets, its identification, validation, protein structures & its modification in drug discovery approach | Level 2 |
| CO3 | Develop leads and protocol to identify leads, its optimization procedures and its sources and able to differentiate lead and hits | Level 3 |
| CO4 | Adapt drug designing protocols, application of QSAR in drug discovery and lead developments, its statistical methodology to validate QSAR equations. | Level 5 |
| CO5 | Identify rational drug discovery, pharmacophore, in silico drug synthesis using softwares programmes and significance of prodrug concepts. | Level 3 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Pharmacological and Toxicological Screening Methods-II/MPL202T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Explain the regulatory requirement for conducting clinical trial | Level 4 |
| CO2 | Demonstrate the type of clinical trial design | Level 2 |
| CO3 | Identify the responsibilities of key players in clinical trials | Level 3 |
| CO4 | Recall the principles of pharmacovigilance and safety monitoring system | Level 1 |
| CO5 | Understand pharmcoepidmiology and economics | Level 2 |
| Year & Semester: I / I | Subject & code: Pharmacological and Toxicological Screening Methods-II/MPL202T | |
| Course Outcome | Description | Bloom’s Taxonomy level |
| CO1 | Design and perform in vitro pharmacological experiments using various isolated tissue preparations | Level 6 |
| CO2 | Quantitate biological samples using isolated tissue preparations and interpret to calculate the PD2 &PA2 value | Level 5 |
| CO3 | Understand OECD guidelines and perform acute toxicity studies for safety evaluations and able to interpret the pharmacokinetic profile of the given drug. | Level 2 and 5 |
| CO4 | Identify cardiovascular responses using proper experimental techniques, drug efficacy and able to design and conduct clinical trials and ADR monitoring. | Level 3 |
| CO5 | Understand the drug discovery process and able to develop a new drug through in silico techniques. | Level 2 |
PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
PO1: Apply interdisciplinary and pharmacology knowledge in the treatment of diseases
PO2: Develop the capacity to formulate, plan, and carry out experiments to identify pertinent remedies to society-related, applied and industrial
PO3: Conduct pharmacological screening in the models and analyze the significant outcomes that brings about the translational value and benefits
PO4: Solve a research problem using modern analytical & molecular techniques, softwares & tools, animal models, reasoning & problem-solving skills as per the needs of pharmaceutical industry
PO5: Inculcate the ethics and professional principles in animal and clinical research of drug discovery and development according to the regulatory bodies
PO6: Detect and monitor new toxicities, adverse drug reactions and help avoid human misery by systematic reporting
PO7: Operate well both individually and as a team member or leader in multicultural and multidisciplinary contexts for team-building exercises.
PO8: Utilize scientific expertise for consultancy, business ventures and industrial collaboration and use.
PO9: Develop overall personality by imparting soft skills for efficient communication and presentation of research findings.
PO10: Demonstrate the knowledge of sustainable development and its importance while comprehending the effects of professional pharmaceutical solutions in societal and environmental contexts.
