Department of Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance

Introduction

The Department of Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance, established in 2012 which fosters research and education for undergraduate, postgraduate, and research students.  The department offers a master’s with an intake of 15 students. The department is equipped with state-of-art laboratories, ultra-modern facilities, and competent staff, which have been considered as the most sophisticated infrastructure in the Marathwada Region in Maharashtra. The department undertakes research projects from the government as well as private funding agencies. A number of research articles are published in reputed journals every year. The department has marked its importance in research activities and also it has an excellent placement record. Academic and research excellence is achieved by dynamic curriculum, syllabus, and pedagogy to meet the current requirements of pharmaceutical industries, academics, and regulatory bodies. The department regularly runs current perspective of pharmaceutical industries like Analytical Method Validation, Quality by design (QbD) are the currently explored areas for development of novel drug delivery system under research project works.

After completing the M. Pharm. in PQA, the students will be able:

• To understand the requirements of quality assurance, compliance, and GMPs.
• To understand the types and procedure of the documentation and its importance in quality work.
• To gain knowledge and skills required in the regulated pharmaceutical industry.
• To understand different topics including the latest regulations, analytical monographs, working of analytical instruments and troubleshooting techniques in the pharmaceutical research.
• To attain knowledge regarding quality system, GLP and Good Documentation Practices.
• To understand management of validation protocol, batch documents, investigation report and facilities audit.

Job prospects for Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Personals in Industry:

1. Quality Assurance
2. Quality Assurance
3. Validation
4. Regulatory Affairs
5. Analyst
6. Academics- University Approved Teacher
7. Store
8. ADL
9. Corporate QA
10. Warehouse
11. Audit & Regulatory Compliance
12. IPQA & IPQC
13. Analytical Research & Development (ARD)
14. Stability Testing