Pharmaceutical Chemistry

The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysuru, established in 1983, provides rigorous and comprehensive training in both core and applied chemical sciences that are fundamental to drug discovery, development, and quality analysis. The department offers postgraduate (M.Pharm) and doctoral (Ph.D.) programmes in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis, alongside postgraduate diplomas such as Computer-Aided Drug Design and Food & Drug Analysis. With modern laboratories, advanced instrumentation, well-qualified faculty, and a curriculum blending medicinal chemistry, analytical methods, organic chemistry and computational drug-design, the department readies students for careers in pharmaceutical research, drug development, quality control, analytical services, and other scientific roles in industry and academia.

Pharmaceutical Chemistry: Define, Discover, Design, Develop, Detect

  • Welcome to the integrated world of Pharmaceutical Chemistry: where creativity meets precision, and molecules evolve into reliable medicines. Together, we bridge the art of drug discovery with the science of quality assurance, ensuring every innovation is effective, safe, and trustworthy.
  • Define: Set the standards that define pharmaceutical excellence, by validating methods and interpreting data, to ensure every method meets the highest benchmarks of quality and performance.
  • Discover: We explore the molecular universe to uncover promising leads, Structure-activity relationships, and reveal new therapeutic pathways. Our researchers unite synthetic, computational, and natural product chemistry to inspire breakthrough drug candidates.
  • Design: Guided by medicinal chemistry and green synthesis principles, we design molecules with intent optimizing their potency, selectivity, and safety to transform ideas into potential therapeutics.
  • Develop: From the laboratory to the marketplace, to collaborate across disciplines to bring safe, effective medicines to patients while upholding global regulatory standards.
  • Detect: Through advanced analytical technologies including spectroscopy, chromatography, and hyphenated techniques, to identify, separate, and characterize compounds with uncompromising accuracy.

Together, Define, Discover, Design, Develop, Detect embodies our shared mission transforming molecular vision into dependable medicines that improve lives.

Vision

To develop competent and skillful professionals with a wide scientific background through quality training and research in Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis.

Mission

  • To impact quality education on drug design, organic synthesis and process chemistry.
  • To impact quality training and Research on computer-aided drug design and analytical method development & validation and impurity profiling of Drugs

Thrust Areas

  • Organic chemistry: Focus on purification and spectral analysis of molecules
  • Process Chemistry: Development of non-infringing routes for small molecules
  • AI/ML Based Drug Design: Design of novel therapeutics using AI and ML.
  • Green Analytical Methods: Assessment tools for sustainable chemistry
  • Bioanalytical Methods: Techniques for DMPK, TDM and impurity Profiling
  • Chirality & Drug Action: Investigation of drug interactions with targets
  • Food and Poison Analysis: Analysis of food and poisons for safety
  • Herbal and cosmetic Analysis: Examination of herbal and cosmetic products

Key Research Facilities

  • Well-equipped synthetic chemistry laboratories
  • HPLC, UHPLC and LC-MS/MS systems
  • Chiral chromatography
  • UV-Visible and FT-IR spectrophotometer
  • Computational chemistry tools for molecular modelling

Ongoing Research Focus

  • Discovery of target-specific small molecules for infections and metabolic disorders
  • Structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies to optimize potency and safety
  • Development of robust analytical methods for new drug entities
  • Chiral separations and stereochemical purity evaluation
  • Comprehensive impurity and degradation profiling to enhance drug quality.

Outreach Activities

  • Industrial Tour for M Pharmacy students of Pharmaceutical chemistry and Analysis at Strides Pharma Puducherry & Cipla Itd. Goa 2025.
  • Yusuf Hamied Royal Society of chemistry Camp 2024.