Pharmaceutical Chemistry is the study of drugs and it involves drug development Pharmaceutical Chemistry is a multi- disciplinary field of study that utilizes Synthetic, Organic Chemistry in conjunction with developments in Biochemistry, Computational Chemistry, Molecule Biology and Pharmacology to advance drug discovery.

The laboratory uses modern equipment in identification and qualification, purification of chemical compounds using analytical methods. The results are interpreted and used to identify a compound including some of its Physical attributes. The purity of a unknown compound can be detected in this laboratory.