The department offers a two year postgraduate course, MPharm Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. In the first year, theoretical inputs on both basic and applied aspects of microbial biochemistry, immunology, bioprocess engineering, cell and molecular biology, drug discovery, quality assurance of biopharmaceuticals, regulatory affairs and IPR are given. The students will have extensive practical hands-on training in recombinant DNA technology, basic molecular biology techniques, animal tissue culture, fermentation, proteomics, diagnostic tests (ELISA), Western blot, Nano-biotechnology etc. In second year, the students take up project works and trained to do extensive literature survey to identify research gaps, formulating research problem, designing research protocols and implementing them to generate data followed by interpretation to arrive at conclusions for the defined research problem.