H K College of Pharmacy unites eminent speakers for National Seminar
H K College of Pharmacy unites eminent speakers for National Seminar
Pharmacy colleges today face the challenge of carving out active professionals who are ready to take on the industry, just as they graduate from the institute. For this just the syllabus is not sufficient unless students are exposed to what is going in the industry these days. This thought brought in place the increasing need of seminars and competitions to encourage student for complete growth of their persona since last few years.
On the platform of H. K. Knowledge Base, two days long event started with very enthusiastic brain storming inter college competitions on 1st day (29th Sept. 2015) i.e. Scientific Day named “Tech-Crunch”. Competitions including model making, innovative product packaging, oral presentation, debate and quiz were organized at the H K College of Pharmacy campus and many students from other pharmacy colleges participated and enjoyed the events.
Event was followed by 7th National Seminar on (1st Oct. 2015) at topic “Recent Breakthrough Innovations in Pharmaceutical Research with Future Perspectives” with the gathering of renowned Industry professionals, Scientists and Professors as speakers for the event. In the seminar 74 poster entries from Mumbai, Pune, and various other major places of Maharashtra were selected for presentation.
Principal Madam, Dr. Anubha Khale inaugurated event by talking about innovation and challenges in pharmaceutical research. She also emphasized on responsibilities of people in pharmaceutical sector in improving health of society as observed by records of last decades.
Dr. Sanjay Boldhane, Associate Director Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. graced us by his presence as honorable chief guest of the day. He enlightened students about marketing strategy followed in pharmaceutical industry also informed about R & D sector of industry. He ended with an important message to students that “Scientific understanding of syllabus is very much needed to grow in research and development (R&D) sector of industry”. Dr. Geeta Vanage, Scientist ‘F’ from National Institute of Reproductive Health, Mumbai spoke on “Role of animals in bio-medical research” enlightened various benefits and guidelines for animal use in research. She also welcomed participants for research collaboration with her institute.
The day proceeded with the sessions on “Complexities in simplistic biomedical science” by Dr. Jayant Khandare, Professor MIT Institute of Pharmacy keeping audience glued with his encouraging words for eminent scope of research field even with minimum investment. This was followed by “Role of cytochrome P450 system in drug discovery” by Dr. Krishna Iyer, Professor, B. C. P. Mumbai in his own way of capturing students and delegates interest in drug designing. Mr. Praveen Zade from Pharma. Evonik Pvt Ltd enlightened everyone on “Biodegradable Polymers for Advanced therapeutic application”. Mr. Amit Modgi, Business Head of Lab India Pvt. Ltd. talked on “ASTM Dissolution Guidelines and its Advantages” enlightening audience about few other innovations in dissolution instruments & their advantages.
Event concluded with prize distribution ceremony to all the winners, after vigorous multi-step evaluation of participants work. Our evaluators were Dr. Sujata Sawarkar, from Bhanuben Nanavati college of pharmacy, Dr. Vanita Kanase, from Oriental college of pharmacy, Dr. Anil Pethe, from NMIMS school of Pharmacy, Dr. Premlata Ambre and Dr. Alka Mukne from Bombay college of Pharmacy. Based on matter Shuchi, Apurva and group of Bharti Vidyapeeth banged 1st prize for their poster entitled “Atmospheric ‘Non-Thermal Plasma: An avenue to advancement”. Second prize went to HK College of Pharmacy – Jogeshwari Mumbai student’s poster entitled (Electronic restoration of vision in post compartment chamber of eye) presented by Prabhuta and group. Third Prize was grabbed by HK College of Pharmacy student’s poster entitled (Identification and characterization of ginger components – Precursor for herbal formulation development) presented by Mishra Tripti and group. Consolation prize 1 went to HK College of Pharmacy student’s poster entitled (Sugar decorated mesoporous silica nanoparticles- a way to enhance the activities of Celastrol) presented by Himani and group. Consolation Prize 2 went to HK College of Pharmacy student’s poster entitled (“Organ- on-a-chip”- a novel successful technique for drug testing) presented by Prathamesh Khot and group. Consolation Prize 3 went to Bharti Vidyapeeth student’s poster entitled (Study of pharmacodynamic interaction of Gymnema sylvestre and S itagliptin on Experimental rat model) presented by Swati and group.