About NIPER Mohali

Can you tell me about the objective of NIPER or National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali? Also provide me its contact detail?

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NIPER or National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Mohali is an Indian public Pharmacy research university, and a part of the seven schools, under India's Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

As an Institute of National Importance it plays an important role in the Human Resource Development for the ever growing Indian Pharmaceutical industry, which has been in the forefront of India’s science based industries with wide ranging capabilities in this important field of drug manufacture.

It offers Masters and Doctoral degrees in pharmaceutical sciences. It offers a 2 year PG degree course; MS (Pharm.) in 13 disciplines ( Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Clinical Research, Pharmacy Practice, Natural products, Biotechnology, Pharmacoinformatics, Traditional medicine and Pharmaceutics) and MBA (Pharm.)

Its vision is to become a globally recognized brand in the areas of education and research in pharmaceutical sciences for the benefit of people of India and other countries and the growth of the pharmaceutical industry


Objectives

The main objectives of the Institute are:

Matching up the level of pharmaceutical education and research by training the future teachers, research scientists and managers for the industry and profession

Continuing education programmes

Creation of National Centres to fulfill the needs of pharmaceutical industries and other research and teaching institutes

Collaboration with Indian industries to meet the global challenges

National/International collaborative research

Curriculum and media development

Study of sociological aspects of drug 'use and abuse', and rural pharmacy, etc

Conducting programmes on drug scrutiny, community pharmacy and pharmaceutical management


Facilities

Central Instrumentation Laboratories
Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SCFE) Facilities
Computer Centre
Library and Information Centre
Central Animal Facility
National Bioavailability Centre
Technology Development Centre
Pharmacological and Toxicological Screening Facilities
Computer Aided Drug Design Laboratory
Peptide Synthesis and Research Laboratory
Combichem Research Laboratory