Centre for Nanotechnology

CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY :

RESEARCH THRUST AREAS:

• Nanotechnologies for drug delivery and therapy 

• Drug nanoformulations 

• Nanoparticles and polymers as drug carriers 

• Diagnostic techniques

• Nanoparticles for food science

Centre for Nanotechnology (CNT) established as an interdisciplinary research centre in the campus of Vishnu Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (VIPER), Narsapur, Telangana in the year 2020. The lab is being headed by Dr.K. Vanitha, Pharmaceutics. The aim of the centre is to initiate and pursue research activities in areas related to nanotechnology and nanoscale phenomena and collaborative research with other institutes and industries. It will benefits the medical research by making pharmaceuticals more efficacious and by decreasing their adverse side-effects. 

Nano technology in Drug delivery: One application of nanotechnology in medicine currently being developed involves employing nanoparticles to deliver drugs to specific types of cells (such as cancer cells). Particles are engineered so that they are attracted to diseased cells, which allow direct treatment of those cells. This technique reduces damage to healthy cells in the body and allows for earlier detection of disease.

Nanotechnology has been applied to diverse medical fields such as oncology and cardiovascular medicine. Indeed, nanotechnology is being used to refine discovery of biomarkers, molecular diagnostics, and drug discovery and drug delivery.

CNT deals with emerging new technologies for developing customized solutions for drug delivery systems. The drug delivery system positively impacts the rate of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of the drug or other related chemical substances in the body. In addition to this the drug delivery system also allows the drug to bind to its target receptor and influence that receptor’s signaling and activity. Pharmaceutical nanotechnology embraces applications of nanoscience to pharmacy as nanomaterials, and as devices like drug delivery, diagnostic, imaging and biosensor.

Nanotechnology is having an impact on several aspects of food science, from how food is grown to how it is packaged. Companies are developing nanomaterials that will make a difference not only in the taste of food, but also in food safety, and the health benefits that food delivers.

We at CNT working on various disciplines like Bio pharmaceutics, Nano drug delivery system and Food science and to understand the current global state of Nanotechnology in drug discovery.  The Centre has well sophisticated and well equipped Nano technology facility

Facility at CNT:

CNT equipped with following instruments.

• Homogenizer, 

• Freeze Drier

• Muffle Furnace, 

• Sensitive pH meter 

• Viscometer

• Sonicator 

• Dissolution apparatus 

• Centrifuge

• Rotary evaporator

• Refrigerator

Services:

• Contract Research Services for academicians, researchers and industries etc.

• Student training services and workshops.

• Involvement of students on various novel research activities on Nano formulations

• Consultancy works for Food industry 

Strength of CNT:

• Well Equipped and sophisticated Nano technology lab facility.

• Nano food science.

• Nano formulations.

• Drug carriers  to Cancer  and hypertension.

Papers published:

1. Prasanna kumar desu, Bisheswar Karmakar, Vanitha kondi, Optimizing formulation of green tea extract-loaded chitosan nanogel, Biomass Conversion and Biorefnery,2022 ; Publisher: Springer

2. Singh, A.R., Desu, P.K., Nakkala, R.B., Vanitha kondi, Kesharwani, P. "Nanotechnology-based approaches applied to nutraceuticals" Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2021; Publisher: Springer