Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory (EPL)
Experimental pharmacology Laboratory (EPL) aimed to organized and undergo planning for the clinical and non-clinical study design, data, information and facts for the advancement of knowledge in drug discovery and pharmacology, been established in 2009. Primary objective of EPL is to evaluating what questions need to be answered and so, mission of EPL is to foster research in different specialties such as neurological conditions, CVS, GIT, orthopedic, anti-cancer. EPL's long term ambition is to encourage novel and creative approaches to basic and clinical research problems and create awareness regarding the drug development in India and abroad. Moreover, also organizing different workshop and conferences for the students, residents and faculty to foster their carrier and innovative horizon. The EPL has ongoing collaborations with various departments at PGIMER and Punjab University, Chandigarh and NIPER, Mohali. EPL believes in teamwork which means the ability to work together toward a common vision. The goal of team of EPL is to study brain based cognitive functioning, its disorders, enhance teaching and research mentoring in clinical and cognitive neuroscience and evaluate therapeutic approaches for autism, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's Disease, celiac disease, malaria. EPL focuses on establishing animal models and exploring pathophysiology of various clinical ailments including Cerebral ischemia, Alzheimer's disease, Epilepsy, Autism, Malaria, Celiac disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. EPL's capability to become a leader with the main motto to develop and understand human behavior/condition and improve bench to bedside and vice versa research to serve the humanity.
About Chandigarh
Chandigarh, the dream city of India's first Prime Minister, Sh. Jawahar Lal Nehru, was planned by the famous French architect Le Corbusier. Picturesquely located at the foothills of Shivaliks, it is known as one of the best experiments in urban planning and modern architecture in the twentieth century in India.
Chandigarh derives its name from the temple of "Chandi Mandir" located in the vicinity of the site selected for the city. The deity 'Chandi', the goddess of power and a fort of 'garh' laying beyond the temple gave the city its name "Chandigarh-The City Beautiful".
The city has a pre-historic past. The gently sloping plains on which modern Chandigarh exists, was in the ancient past, a wide lake ringed by a marsh. The fossil remains found at the site indicate a large variety of aquatic and amphibian life, which was supported by that environment. About 8000 years ago the area was also known to be a home to the Harappans.
Since the medieval through modern era, the area was part of the large and prosperous Punjab Province which was divided into East & West Punjab during partition of the country in 1947. The city was conceived not only to serve as the capital of East Punjab, but also to resettle thousands of refugees who had been uprooted from West Punjab.
In March, 1948, the Government of Punjab, in consultation with the Government of India, approved the area of the foothills of the Shivaliks as the site for the new capital. The location of the city site was a part of the erstwhile Ambala district as per the 1892-93 gazetteer of District Ambala. The foundation stone of the city was laid in 1952. Subsequently, at the time of reorganization of the state on 01.11.1966 into Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pardesh, the city assumed the unique distinction of being the capital city of both, Punjab and Haryana while it itself was declared as a Union Territory and under the direct control of the Central Government.