National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad

NIPER Hyderabad is one of the leading "Institutes of National Importance" in the area of Pharmaceutical Education & Research. NIPER Hyderabad has secured 2nd rank under Pharmacy Category in NIRF India rankings 2022 by MoE, Government of India. The Institute has been functioning with a vision to serve as a leading global institution in the field of Higher Education and Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical Devices and Management. Its mission is to be one of the principal sources of professional manpower in the field and strengthen the Indian Pharmaceutical industry to obtain quality products at affordable prices. Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana State and also the has emerged as the "Bulk Drug Capital of India" and "Vaccine Capital of the World." Hence, undoubtedly NIPER Hyderabad has a considerable prime location advantage. Telangana State has nearly 200 Bulk Drug & Intermediate Manufacturers, 400 Formulation Units, Genome Valley and Medical Device Park, most of which are clustered around Hyderabad, spread in a radius of 60 km. It includes manufacturing unit’s/business enterprises spread all over Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Medak and Nalgonda districts of Telangana. About 35% of US-FDA-approved facilities in India are situated in the State of Telangana. The Pharmaceutical industry in Telangana provides employment directly to more than 1,00,000 people and indirectly to more than 5,00,000 people in India. NIPER Hyderabad stands unparalleled in both Education and Research in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical Devices & Management. The institute is well equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities for carrying out advanced research in the areas of pharmaceutical importance. Our Central Instrumentation Laboratory is well equipped with sophisticated instruments like NMR, LC-MS, GC-MS, ICP-MS, HPLC, Preparative HPLC, UPLC, FT-IR, FE-SEM, Spray dryer, Ultracentrifuge, Particle size and Zeta analyzer, Hot Stage Microscope, DSC, TGA, Powder XRD, Rheometer, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope and many more. A well-established Animal House, Cell Culture Laboratory in addition to two BSL-2 facilities are available in NIPER Hyderabad, for carrying out advanced research in cancer nanobiology, novel drug screening, and vaccine characterization. The campus also has a Central Library, Computer Laboratories, and a Pharma Innovation and Incubation Centre (Avishkaran-BioNEST).

NIPER Hyderabad has published more  than thousands  research publications in peer-reviewed international/national journals, in the core research areas of Drug Discovery, Computer-Aided Drug Designing, Novel Process Development for Bulk Drugs, Nanotechnologies in Drug Delivery, Drug Metabolism, and Pharmacokinetic Studies, etc. more than 20 patents have been filed by the institute, out of which  more than15 have already been granted. “Many of our faculty members have considerable experience and expertise in carrying out translational projects from concept to commercial products” Institute has also received more than 100 research projects from several government funding agencies like DST, DBT, Ayush, ICMR in addition to international funding from University of Manchester-UKIERI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Israel, etc to carry out research in different areas of Pharmaceutical Sciences. NIPER Hyderabad has received large number of industry sponsored projects, providing technological solutions towards R&D challenges. NIPER Hyderabad Faculties have received several prestigious awards, such as the Angelika Bierhaus award from NEURODIAB, IDMA Young Pharmaceutical Analyst Award, OPPI award, Young Scientist award from Telangana Academy of Sciences, 'FICCI Award of Excellence - Women in R&D, Dr. K. N. Sharma oration award, ICMR-Shakuntala Amir Chand Award etc. Four faculty members have been listed among top 2% World Scientist rankings in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences consecutively for the year 2022, 2023, 2024 . The Institute has established many research collaborations with reputed national and international institutes and universities. We have also entered into MoUs with leading institutes like IIT-BHU, Varanasi, National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSME), Hyderabad, and National Research Institute of Unani Medicine for Skin Disorders (NRIUMSD), Hyderabad and Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH),Hyderabad.