Department of

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

About the Department

Department of Pharmaceutical chemistry uses modern educational instructional techniques to teach the courses which are integral part of pharmacy education. These courses enable the students to understand and correlate the chemistry of drugs with their actions/fate in the body. These courses aim to provide educational experience, skills and in depth integrated knowledge at the interface between chemistry and biology disciplines. Pharmaceutical chemistry courses focus on several aspects of drug design, discovery and development from synthetic and natural sources besides imparting knowledge and understanding of drug stability, formulation into a dosage form, molecular interaction of drug with its receptors, mechanism of action, metabolism of the drug, behavior of drug inside body, etc.

There are two well equipped state of the art laboratories which cater to the needs of the B. Pharmacy students. A separate research lab with essential analytical instruments is available to support the research activities of the faculty and students. 

Faculty members

Faculty members in Dept of Pharmaceutical Chemistry are highly qualified, experienced and are committed to delivery of quality education. They are also actively engaged in research and the research findings have been published in the Scopus and WoS indexed journals.

Dr Shah Alam Khan

Designation: Professor and Head of Department
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Dr Mohammed Jawaid Akhtar

Designation: Assistant Professor
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Ms Bushara Nasser Ahmed Al Sabahi

Designation: Lecturer
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Salha Saeed Al Salti

Designation: Lab Technician
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Ms Sakina Habib Juma AL Humaid

Designation: Senior Lab Technician
Email: [email protected]

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Courses taught by Faculty

Course code Course name Cr h Year/ Semester
PCHE0101 General Chemistry with Lab 4 First/Fall
PCHE0102 Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry with Lab 4 First/Spring
PCHE0201 Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry I 3 Second/Fall
PCHE0202 Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry II with Lab 4 Second/Spring
PCHE 0203 Pharmacognosy & Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) with Lab 3 Second/Summer
PCHE0301 Medicinal Chemistry -I 3 Third/Fall
PCHE0302 Medicinal Chemistry –II 3 Third/Spring
PCHE0303 Pharmaceutical Analysis with lab 4 Third/Spring