National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research

The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, India was established by the Government of India to cater to the long-standing demand for setting up a dedicated nodal for quality higher education and advanced research in the pharmaceutical sciences. Colonial rule in an era of rapid advancement of sciences and technology had left the once a land of pioneers in sciences a few decades behind the frontline researchers. On the lines of similar initiatives in engineering/technology (the Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science, National Institutes of Technology), medicine (AIIMS), and management (Indian Institutes of Management), the policy makers made a humble start in the field of pharmaceuticals.