Research Infrastructure

The University has three specialized research institutes,

Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Social Science Studies and Research, (YCISSSR) Pune

Research and Development Centre in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Applied Chemistry, (RDCPSAC) Pune

Interactive Research School for Health Affairs (IRSHA) Pune

To address the special challenges of research programmes

IRSHA promotes inter-disciplinary research in modern biomedical, ayurveda and other traditional medicine areas and conducts research in critical areas such as mother and child health, breast and cervical cancer, diabetes, obesity and medicinal plants.
While RDCPSAC has facilities for carrying out spectral, thermal, chemical and micro structural analysis on Phyto medicines and applications of polymers in drug delivery systems, chemical analysis of reaction by-products on a variety of materials.
Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Social Science Studies and Research, Pune conducts geriatric research and studies on child welfare. It has completed a project on institutional geriatric care in Maharashtra funded by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and received funding to the tune of Rs. five lakhs. The institute has collaborated with International Longevity Centre, India and conducted a survey on rural ageing in Maharashtra. It has also collaborated with International Institution on Ageing, Malta University, Malta for conducting training programmes in social gerontology. Recently ICSSR has sanctioned a major research project “Corporate social responsibility and its contribution to community development”

In its quest for excellence, the University has provided researchers with state-of-the-art research laboratories, departmental libraries, sophisticated instruments and equipment, advanced ICT tools, e-learning resources and mentoring support. New buildings have been constructed where necessary.

In order to facilitate quality research in emerging areas, the University has established prominent research centers such as:

A center for Composite Materials and Research in Nanotechnology is established in the College of Engineering, Pune in collaboration with North Carolina A & T State University, USA. The center for composite material is now equipped with all the facilities to synthesize and characterize nanoparticles and composites. The research facilities include Atomic Force Microscope, Spin Coater, Electro spinning setup, Particle Size Analyzer, FTIR, SEM coater, Viscometer, Vortex shaker, Microwave etc.
Research and Development Center in Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences and Applied Chemistry has been established for research in collaboration with College of Pharmacy. The college also has a Food Testing Laboratory is equipped with GC MSMS, HPLC MSMS, ICPS etc. and accredited by APEDA and NABL.
The Euro-American Legal Study and International Research Center and International IPR Research Center have been established in the New Law College to cater to the needs of research on foreign laws and IPR laws respectively.
Pediatric Clinical Research Unit is established in the Medical College, Pune with the objective of inculcating research culture among faculty and students in collaboration with various pharmaceutical companies.
An autonomous unit of the Real World Nutrition Laboratory Foundation (RWNLF) has been established in IRSHA to promote industry institution partnership for the development of innovative products, for validating and marketing the products. The objective is to make available fully tested and proven technologies for full scale commercial exploitation and achieve the desired impact on the welfare of the society. So far, by resourcing omega3 fatty acid from Flaxseed (linseed), Omega-3 enriched health products (omega-3 enriched egg, milk, ghee, chicken etc.), are developed and validated by RWNLF for commercialization.
The University has built a modern building for IRSHA with state-of-art equipment and facilities having 50,000 sq. ft. space. In addition, it is provided with new furniture, full capacity generator back up, Wi-Fi access, and laboratories with sophisticated scientific equipment.

Further, in various constituent units, the University has provided high end equipment, computing machinery as well as soft computing tools for experimentation, analysis and assessment of the resulting data.

The advanced equipment provided include Cooling incubator, Laminar Flow Cabinate, Reverse Trancriptase Polymarase Chain Reaction (RTPCR), Mini Transeblot and Electrophoresis Cell, Fluorescence Microscope, Inverted Microscope, ELISA PLATE Reader, DNA Sequencing, High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, X liquid Chromatography, High Pressure Thin Layer Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, Gas Cromotography Mass Spectrometry, UV Spectrophotometer, Super Critical Fluid Chromatography, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscope.

The University has Information Resource Centre located in Medical College, Pune; College of Engineering, Pune and Institute of Management and Research, New Delhi. These IRCs provide access to online versions of journals, e-books, e-journals, digital databases and open courseware. University is also a member of UGC-INFLIBNET/N-List through which many international journals of repute can be accessed by the researchers.

Further, the University has created e-library which provides links to its digital resources that include:

Online databases such as ASCE,ASME, IEEE, McGraw Hill, ASTM Digital library, Elsevier, JGate, Springer, EBSCO, ASTM Digital, ProQuest Management Collection, LexisNexis, Manupatra, medIND, Sage Online journal, Westlaw etc.
Research databases such as Web of Science, SCOPUS, PubMed and Google Scholar is available for faculty and students to know the quality of their publications.
Anti-plagiarism software to improve the quality of research articles and theses.
Drug Information Centre where the complete profile of any drug is made available at the tip of a finger through Micromedex Drug Information Database.