The department of Drug Discovery and Development Unit (DDDU), is established on the year 2021, this department has a unique place in the development and discovery of drugs and other related research. This department is a part of National Institute of Ayurveda, NIA, Jaipur. Drug discovery and development unit (DDDU) is a CPCSEA registered unit to conduct various scientific researches on animals, animal tissue and pathogens to meet the requirements of advanced pharmacology research on Ayurvedic medicines for development of new formulations and generate scientific evidence of safety and efficacy of ayurvedic medicines.
The Registration number of thus animal house facility is 2128/GO/ReRc/S/21/CPCSEA and the registration is valid up to five years from the date of issue of the letter. This animal facility is intended to assure qualities maintenance and safety of animal used in studies while conducting different researches. The most commonly used animals are Rat, Rabbit, Guinea pig etc. At present, the department provides an integration approach towards education and various research and development of the institute.
Pharmacology lab consists of highly sophisticated equipment's to investigate the activity of various drugs.
There are total two pharmacology labs in the department, this lab is fully sterile and maintains an aseptic condition in order to carry out the experiments performed accordingly.
This lab mainly consist of- surgical tables, Digital weighing machine, Digital Rota rod, Organ bath, Digital tele Thermometer, Digital tail flick analgesiometer, Kymograph drum, Analgesia meter hot plate, Laminar air flow, Vacuum rotary evaporator, Orbital incubator shaker, Rotary vacuum film evaporator, Digital PH meter, Karl Fischer Titrator, etc.
There are house and facilities for experimental animals like Rat room, Mice room, Rabbit/Hamster/Guinea pig room etc. These rooms are in light, temperature and humidity controlled condition.
This lab is well equipped, computerized and fully air conditioned. The Biochemistry lab provides an extensive range of testing service and is highly equipped with different sophisticated equipment's such as- Hematology Analyzer, Urine analyzer, Biochemistry analyzer, Elisa reader, UV visible spectrophotometer, Centrifuge etc.
The Histopathology lab provides a number of services which mainly involves examining the tissue and detection of disease. This lab is highly sophisticated and provides a number of equipment's which are automatic and are handled by trained staff.
This laboratory mainly equipped with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), this equipment is used in separating complex compounds in a provided sample. This lab is fully air conditioned and computerized.
This room is fully air conditioned and provides aseptic condition for sterilization.
