Research

Every advance teaching & research Institution keep and maintain research facilities, not only for undergraduate experiments but also to meet the demand for research activities at the M.Phil./Ph.D.  level.
In the Department of Pharmacy, Four research groups are actively engaged in research activities:

• Pharmaceutics
• Basic Medical Sciences
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• Pharmacognosy

PHARMACEUTICS
LABORATORIES EQUIPMENTS :

Facilities

LABORATORIES EQUIPMENT’S OF PHARMACEUTICS:

•  Binary HPLC-UV detector
• UV spectrophotometer double beam
• Analytical balance
• Hot plate stirrer (Both single and multiple)
• Microcentrifuge (Temperature control)
• Oven
• Probe sonicator for nanoparticles
• Filtration assembly
• Ultrasonication bath
• Mechanical water bath
• Distillation assembly apparatus
• Fume hood
• SPE (Solid Phase Extraction apparatus)
• Freeze dryer
• Vortex mixer
• LCMS/MS (Triple quadrupole)
• UPLC
• Quaternary HPLC-UV/DAD/ECD/FL
• Zeta sizer- Malvern
• Autoclave
• Hot incubator
• Laminar air flow Horizontal
• Reciprocating Shaker
• Pellet making and coating machine
• Freeze dryer
• Blister machine
• Stability chamber
• Tablet compression machine
• Tablet coating machine
• Mixers (Cone, Ribbon)

BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES LABORATORIES

Description

Facilities

1. LABORATORIES EQUIPMENT’S OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES:

• High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
• UV-VIS spectrophotometer
• Automatic tissue processor
• Animal tissue homogenizer
• Magnetic stirrer
• Sonicator
• Fluorescence microscope
• Light microscopes
• Kymographs
• Organ baths
• Microtome
• Sphygmomanometer
• Stethoscope
• Oscillograph

PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY

LABORATORIES EQUIPMENT’S OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY
Facilities

1. LABORATORIES EQUIPMENT’S OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY:

o Real time PCR
o Convetional PCR
o Chemistry Analyser
o Centrifuge Machine
o Gel Electrophoresis
o Thermal Block
o UV Spectrophotometer Double Beam
o Vortex Mixer
o Oven
o Gallen Kamp apparatus
o Water Bath
o Heating Mantle
o Hot Plate
o Microscopes
o Digital weighing balance
o Stability chamber
    o Refrigerator

PHARMACOGNOSY
1. LABORATORIES EQUIPMENT’S OF PHARMACOGNOSY:

Facilities
1. LABORATORIES EQUIPMENT’S OF PHARMACOGNOSY:

    o Rotary evaporators
    o Deep freezer
    o Compound M icroscopes
    o Oven

COMPUER LABORATORY
Facilities

• COMPUTERS
• Internet
• Books
• Software

DRUG INFORMATION AND POISON CONTROL CENTER

Drug Information and Poison Control Center

 Drug Information and Poison Control Center is a source of authentic accurate unbiased and reliable source of information about drugs and poisons to health case professionals and common masses.

Objectives

• To provide independet, unbaised, authentic, accurate and objective drug informtion to assist healthprofessionals in rational prescribing to optimize patient care.
• To advise general public regarding safe. effective and economic use of medicines.

ANIMAL HOUSE AND BIOASSAY
LABORATORIES
1. ANIMAL HOUSE AND BIOASSAY LABORATORIES:

Department of pharmacy has established state of the art experimental research facilities at,
Abbottabad University  where research students can work and learn in friendly environment.
These research facilities include: Animal house having breeding and keeping facilities for rats, mice, pigeons, rabbits and guinea pigs.

 Behavioral laboratory equipped with computer assisted video recording facility for experiments on live animals such as analgesia, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, anti-emetic,locomotor, anxiolytic and antidepressant activities.

• Toxicological laboratory with facility of tissue embedding and staining, microtome for tissue slicing and a microscope attached with digital camera for histopathological examination of tissue slides.
• Applied Pharmacology laboratory with facilities of -80 oC fridge, tissue homogenizers for processing tissue, temperature controlled centrifuge, H PLC with UV and ECD detectors. ESA, Electrochemical Detector is equipped with high sensitivity analytical cell and guard cell for measurement of minute quantities of neurotransmitters and other biomarkers in biological fluids including different brain areas of interest.
• Universal organ bath, Oscillograph and chart recorders for performing experiments on isolated
  tissues.
• Equipment’s:
• Hot Plate Analgesiometer
• Plethysmometer
• Shallow (Paddling) water maze
• Y-M aze test
• Open Field apparatus
• Animal cages
• Animal racks
• Animal holders
• Wire mesh stand
• Von frey hair filaments