The focused research areas of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry are development of new chemical entities for the treatment of cancer, metabolic disorders, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. The department is successful in getting financial support from various funding agencies like DBT, DST, AICTE and ICMR. Faculty members have published their work in reputed international journals. The department is equipped with sophisticated instruments like HPLC, FT-IR, Flash chromatographic system, parallel synthesizer, cyclic voltameter procured with the help of financial support from funding agencies. The department has a dedicated tissue culture laboratory. The department has full-fledged Schrodinger Software and computational facility for designing drug candidates. Currently discussions are on with Dr Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences and Schrodinger for the discovery of new drugs. Faculty members of the department are co-guides for the staff of Lupin Pharma who pursue doctoral research under Manipal University.