The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi is considering establishing a pharmaceutical technology centre to improve scientific and technical education and research in healthcare and pharmaceutical.
Expected to be set up within a year, the new pharmaceutical technology centre will focus on drug discovery, process development and commercialization, drug characterization, drug delivery and diagnostics.
IIT Delhi Chemical Engineering department professor Anurag Rathore was quoted by Pharmabiz as saying said that the centre will facilitate interdisciplinary research and academia-industry collaboration, while developing new products and technology solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.
Other objectives of the centre are providing an interdisciplinary research, solutions for healthcare needs of the society, pharmaceutical industry collaboration and productive partnerships, and to create a trained human resource base for the industry.
