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NIPER-G

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education
and Research, Guwahati

ABOUT NIPER

GUWAHATI ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21

The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & The doctoral degree programme of NIPER Guwahati was
Research (NIPER) has been established under the aegis of introduced in 2011 with Ph.D. in the Department of
the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals Pharmacology & Toxicology. Later, the Ph.D. programmes
and Fertilizers, Govt. of India, as a Center of Excellence in were expanded to Department of Biotechnology and
several parts of the country for imparting higher education, Department of Pharmacy Practice in the years 2014
research and development in the pharmaceutical sciences and 2015 respectively. In 2018, two more departments
sector. As per the notification issued by the Govt. of India viz. Department of Pharmaceutics and Department
on 26th June 1998, NIPER was declared as an ‘Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis were added which gave
of National Importance’ through an Act of Parliament. opportunities to students to pursue their studies in
NIPER Guwahati is the fifth institute among seven NIPERs M.S.(Pharm) and Ph.D. programmes. Recently in the year
which started functioning from the month of September 2021, the institute has also began offering M.S.(Pharm)
of 2008 under the mentorship of Gauhati Medical College and Ph.D. courses in the newly introduced Department of
and Hospital in Guwahati (Assam). In the same year, Pharmaceutical Technology (Formulations) and Department
NIPER Guwahati set out its journey by offering admission of Medicinal Chemistry, in addition to M.Tech and Ph.D
to students in two Post Graduate courses viz. M.S.(Pharm) programmes in Department of Medical Devices as well.
in Pharmacology & Toxicology and M. Pharm in Pharmacy
Practice. In 2010, NIPER Guwahati introduced the M.S.
(Pharm) programme in Biotechnology.

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