Academic Facilities

Poona College of Pharmacy offers the best infrastructure to ensure that the students have a smooth and productive academic life.

Classrooms

The infrastructure consists of academic facilities such as classrooms, libraries and seminar halls and campus facilities such as hostels, mess, canteen and more. The college has state-of-the-art classrooms where the students will be able to excel in their academic life. The classrooms are well-equipped and are prepared to be comfortable spaces where the students will be able to study well.

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Library

Library facilities are the heart of any educational institution. The college library has been recently renovated and has now a beautifully illuminated, well ventilated and furnished reading hall. This rich and up-dated library possesses a large number of books, and back issues of national and international journals of repute, including Chemical Abstracts and Pharmacopeias. The library is updated every year and newer journals, books, e-journals and e-books are added to it. Online databases such as N-list, Micromedex, K-Hub (e-library), E-shodhsindhu, Shodhganga are subscribed and available to the library members. This helps the faculty members and students to keep themselves abreast of recent developments in the pharmaceutical sciences.

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The library is kept open for the students from morning till late in the evening. The students have open access to the books. Book Bank facility is also available for the students of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and also for the economically backward students.

The entire library operations including Acquisition, Cataloguing, Circulation, OPAC, Memberships, reports etc. are computerized and books have been barcoded. Library has SOUL 3.0 library management system, which is developed by INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, an Inter University Centre of UGC, India.

Library offers variety of services to its members. Library is developing a Digital Repository entitled “GyanBharati”, which will offer a dynamic / user friendly platform to store, organize, disseminate, publish research output in the form of patents, thesis, research articles. At present there are 156 thesis, 1422 Research Papers, journals and other publications like Annual Reports etc. in digitized form. It will be available to the members in near future.

Library Collection

Library 26123
Journals (P) 22
e-journals 2393+
e-books 195809+
Online databases 05

General Information

Library Area 211.75 Sq. Mtr
Library Timing 8.00 am. to 8.00 pm.
Reading Hall Capacity 66

Laboratories

Spacious, well-equipped and properly maintained laboratories are available on the campus for the different branches of Pharmacy viz. Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Natural Products, Quality Assurance, Microbiology, Computer Education, Industrial Pharmacy, Tissue Culture, Computer-Aided Drug Design and Polymer Research.

Auditoriums, Conference & Seminar Halls

The college has well-equipped auditoriums, conference and seminar halls where various events and seminars are conducted on an annual basis. Both the students and faculty can access these facilities for different academic purposes.

Laboratories

Spacious, well-equipped and properly maintained laboratories are available on the campus for the different branches of Pharmacy viz. Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Natural Products, Quality Assurance, Microbiology, Computer Education, Industrial Pharmacy, Tissue Culture, Computer-Aided Drug Design and Polymer Research.

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Separate laboratory facilities are also provided to the undergraduate students and the postgraduate students of all the six branches i.e., Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Quality Assurance Techniques and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. All of these laboratories have the necessary and latest instruments and equipment. These facilities have been created for the use of undergraduate as well as post-graduate students, research scholars and faculty members.

Due to the updated and sophisticated equipment, the laboratories on the campus have been compared to the level of international standards and norms. Separate analytical instrument rooms have been provided that are equipped with sophisticated and ultramodern instruments like UPLC Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer, Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectrophotometer, Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, Gas Chromatograph, High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph, SCFC, TGA, PCR, Cryocentrifuge, High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatograph, Differential Scanning Calorimeter, Spectrofluorimeter, etc.

The Pharmaceutics research laboratory has the Dissolution Test Apparatus, Ultrasonicator, Polarising Microscope, Homogenizer, stereomicroscope, Particle size analyzer, Fermentor, CO2 incubators, Rheometer. The Pharmacology research laboratory has instruments like Plethysmometer, Analgesiometer, Polygraph while Pharmacognosy research laboratory has facilities for plant tissue culture, soxhlet extractors, etc.

Auditoriums, Conference & Seminar Halls

The college has well-equipped auditoriums, conference and seminar halls where various events and seminars are conducted on an annual basis. Both the students and faculty can access these facilities for different academic purposes.

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