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Contents • Message from PRINCIPAL• Editorial board• Historical article• News Update• Knowledge based Article• Disease Related Breaking

News• Upcoming Events• Drugs Update• Campus News• Student’s Section• Editor’s Note• Archive

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MESSAGE FROM PRINCIPAL

"It can happen. It does happen. But it can't happen if you quit." Lauren Dane.

‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.’ Aristotle

It gives me immense pleasure to pen a few words for our e-bulletin. At the onset I would like to thank the last year’s editors and congratulate the newly selected editors for the current year.

Our first consideration is always in the best interest of the students. Our goal is to promote academic excellence and continuous improvement.

I believe that excellence in education is aided by creating a learning environment in which all learners are supported in maximizing their potential and talents. Education needs to focus on personalized learning and instruction, while promoting an education system that is impartial, universally accessible, and meeting the needs of all students.

It is of paramount importance that our learners have sufficient motivation and encouragement in order to achieve their aims. We are all very proud of you, our students, and your accomplishments and look forward to watching as you put your mark on the profession in the years ahead.

The call of the time is to progress, not merely to move ahead. Our progressive Management is looking forward and wants our Institute to flourish as a Post Graduate Institute of Excellence. Steps are taken in this direction and fruits of these efforts will be received by our students in the near future. Our Teachers are committed and dedicated for the development of the institution by imparting their knowledge and play the role of facilitator as well as role model to our students.

The Pharmacy profession is thriving with a multitude of possibilities, opportunities and positive challenges. At Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, our focus is on holistic needs of our students.

I am confident that the students of GNIPST will recognize all the possibilities, take full advantage of the opportunities and meet the challenges with purpose and determination.

Excellence in Education is not a final destination, it is a continuous walk. I welcome you to join us on this path.

My best wishes to all.

Dr. A. Sengupta

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EDITORIAL BOARD

CHIEF EDITOR DR. ABHIJIT SENGUPTA EDITOR MS. JEENATARA BEGUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR MR. DIPANJAN MANDAL

HISTORICAL ARTICLE Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether is probably the greatest female mathematician who has ever lived. She transformed our understanding of the universe with Noether’s theorem and then transformed mathematics with her founding work in abstract algebra. Beginnings: Amalie Emmy Noether was born in the small university city of Erlangen in Germany on March 23, 1882. Her father, Max Noether, was an eminent professor of mathematics at the University of Erlangen. Her mother was Ida Amalia Kaufmann, whose family were wealthy wholesalers. Young Emmy was brought up as a typical girl of her era: helping with cooking and running the house – she admitted later that she had little aptitude for these sorts of things. Her mother was a skilled pianist, but Emmy did not enjoy piano lessons. Her main passion was dancing. She also loved mathematics, but she knew that the rules of the time meant she would not be allowed to follow in her father’s footsteps to become a university academic. After completing high school – she attended the Municipal School for Higher Education of Daughters in Erlangen – she trained to become a school teacher, qualifying in 1900, aged 18, to teach English and French in girls’ schools. Although a career in teaching offered her financial security, her love of mathematics proved to be too strong. She decided to abandon teaching and apply to the University of Erlangen to observe mathematics lectures there. She could only observe

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lectures, because women were not permitted to enroll officially at the university. Between 1900 and 1902 Emmy studied mathematics at Erlangen. In July 1903 she traveled to the city of Nürnberg and passed the matriculation examination allowing her to study mathematics (but not officially enroll) at any German university. At the Center of the Universe for a semester Emmy chose to go for a semester to the University of Göttingen, then home to the most prestigious school of mathematics in the world. Many of the greatest mathematicians in history had taught and been taught at Göttingen, including Carl Friedrich Gauss and Bernhard Riemann. Emmy attended lectures given by:

• Hermann Minkowski, the esteemed mathematician who hadtaught Albert Einstein, and

• David Hilbert, probably the twentieth century’s most outstandingmathematicianDoctorate in Mathematics:In 1904 Emmy was overjoyed to learn that her hometownuniversity, Erlangen, had decided women should be permitted fullaccess.She was accepted as a Ph.D. student by the renownedmathematician Paul Gordan. Gordan was 67 when Emmy startedwork with him. She was the only student he ever accepted as aPh.D. candidate.Gordan was known among mathematicians as “the king ofinvariant theory.” Emmy made exceptional progress in this field,which would later lead to her making her remarkable discovery inphysicsIn 1907 the 25 year-old Emmy officially became Doctor Noether.Her degree wasawarded ‘summa cum laude’ – the highest distinction possible.Noether’s Theorem:Hilbert, Einstein, Noether, and the General Theory of Relativity

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Einstein visits Göttingen: In 1915 Albert Einstein had been struggling to formulate his General Theory of Relativity mathematically. He visited David Hilbert in Göttingen and discussed the issues. The result was that Einstein overcame his issues and published his theory before the year end. Hilbert published his own version of the theory, in a different mathematical form. Einstein’s General Relativity Breaks the Law: Hilbert now discussed one particular problem with Noether. He was deeply concerned that, despite its attractions, Relativity Theory was breaking one of the ‘unbreakable’ conservation laws of physics. He believed that her expertise in invariant theory could be helpful. Certain quantities in physics may not be created or destroyed, such as energy. Energy can change its form – such as kinetic to thermal – but the total energy stays constant – energy is said to be conserved. In General Relativity Theory however, there was a problem: it was possible for an object which lost energy by emitting gravity waves to speed up. An object with less energy should slow down, not speed up! It seemed that the conservation of energy law was being broken. A Problem Archimedes Would Have Loved: In the end, the problem was one of symmetry. Over 2000 years earlier the greatest mathematician of antiquity – perhaps ever – had been buried with a carving of a sphere within a cylinder on his tomb. This was Archimedes, who believed his greatest achievement had been discovering and proving the formula for the volume of a sphere. A perfect sphere is highly symmetrical. Whichever way you rotate it, and from whichever angle you view it, it always looks the same. A cylinder, on the other hand, is less symmetrical; but there is still some symmetry. If you turn it upside down, for example, it looks the same.

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Physicists need to use equations whose symmetry is as sphere-like as possible. They last thing they want is equations that change depending on where you are viewing the universe from. In physics jargon we say that we need the laws of the universe to be space invariant. We don’t want them to look different in one city from another or in one galaxy from another. We also need these laws to be time invariant. We don’t want the laws of physics in an hour’s time to be different from the laws right now. Noether to the Rescue: Noether hit the ground running in Göttingen. In the year she arrived she proved something remarkable – something so beautiful and profound that it changed the face of physics forever – Noether’s Theorem, which she eventually published in 1918. Her famous theorem was born when Noether considered Hilbert and Einstein’s problem: that General Relativity Theory seemed to break the law of conservation of energy. Noether discovered that for every invariant (i.e. symmetry) in the universe there is a conservation law. Equally, for every conservation law in physics, there is an invariant. This is called Noether’s Theorem and it describes a fundamental property of our universe. For example, Noether’s Theorem shows that the law of conservation of energy is actually a consequence of time invariance in classical physics. Or alternatively that time invariance is caused by the law of conservation of energy. Another example is that the law of conservation of electric charge is a consequence of the global gauge invariance of the electromagnetic field. And vice versa. Opening up Strange New Worlds: With Noether’s Theorem, physicists now owned a very powerful new concept. They could propose abstract symmetries, knowing there must be a conservation law attached to each of them. They could then figure out the conservation law.

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Noether’s Theorem has the power to answer questions others cannot – particularly in particle physics. It is important on two levels:

• it allows practical calculations to be made, and• when physicists theorize about any new system they can imagine,

Noether’s theorem allows them to gain an insight into theproperties of that system and determine if that system is possibleor should be discarded.Einstein’s Problem Solved:Noether’s Theorem also solved the worrying puzzle in GeneralRelativity that Emmy Noether had initially set out to solve. Hertheorem shows that if matter and gravity are considered to be oneunified quantity rather than separate quantities, then there is noviolation of any conservation law.At last: some career progress:With the end of World War 1, in which so many men had died orbeen badly injured, came a change in German society. It becameacceptable for women to work in occupations previously reservedfor men. Combined with Noether publishing her brilliant theorem,her academic progress could no longer be blocked.At the age of 37 she became a tenured lecturer at Göttingen.However, she still received no pay from a now war-impoverishedGermany. Her father died when she was 39, leaving her a smallinheritance.It was only when she reached the age of 40 that Noether finallybegan to receive a salary.Some Personal Details and The End:Noether was totally devoted to mathematics and talked of littleelse. She never married and had no children. She cared little for herappearance and less for social conventions; she was not a shrinkingviolet – she spoke loudly and forcibly. She could be very bluntwhen she disagreed with anyone on a mathematical issue, andpeople with whom she disagreed could feel rather bruisedmentally.

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On the other hand, she was very kind, considerate, and unselfish with everyone, and would go out of her way to ensure her Ph.D. students got full credit for their work, even when she had contributed significantly to it herself. Only students who were very bright and fully prepared benefited from her rather disorganized lectures – rather like Willard Gibbs‘s students. To her advanced students, she would present ideas at the forefront of modern mathematics – concepts that she herself was currently working on. This was of great benefit to her best students, who were able to publish research papers based on new, entirely original ideas Noether had been discussing in her lectures. Her best lessons were delivered informally, in conversations, or when out walking with her students, for whom she always had time. Emmy Noether died in Bryn Mawr at the age of 53 on April 14, 1935. She died of complications a few days after an operation to remove a tumor from her pelvis. The cause of death was possibly a viral infection. Her ashes were buried under the cloisters of Bryn Mawr College’s M. Carey Thomas Library.

NEWS UPDATE An antibody that can attack HIV in new ways:

(11th September, 2015) Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) are thought to be the future for treating and preventing HIV infections. A bNAb recently characterized by researchers can neutralize the virus in several different states -- increasing the antibody's promise as a therapeutic.

Chemist has developed a technique to identifying potential cancer drugs that less likely to produce side effects: (11th September, 2015) A class of therapeutic drugs known as protein kinase inhibitors has become a powerful weapon in the fight against various life-

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threatening diseases. One problem with these drugs, however, is that they often inhibit many different targets, which can lead to side effects and complications in therapeutic use. A recent study has identified a new technique for improving the selectivity of these drugs and possibly decreasing unwanted side effects in the future.

Connection found between fitness level, brain activity, and executive function: (11th September, 2015) Brain function associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness plays a role in increased cognitive performance in older adults, according to a new study. Specifically, the scientists found that dual-task processing in a core executive function brain region is associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness and dual-task performance.

Pressure to be available 24/7 on social media causes teen anxiety, depression: (11th September, 2015) Overall and night-time specific social media use along with emotional investment were related to poorer sleep quality, lower self-esteem as well as higher anxiety and depression levels, new research concludes.

New epigenetic study reveals exciting insights into colorectal cancer progression: (11th September, 2015)

New epigenetic markers for colorectal cancer have been identified by researchers, suggesting that there may be a new approach for treatment in sight.

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Blood cancers develop when immune cell DNA editing hits off-target spots: (10th September, 2015) Editing errors in the DNA of developing T and B cells can cause blood cancers. Now, researchers have shown that when the enzyme key to cutting and pasting segments of DNA hits so-called 'off-target' spots on a chromosome, the development of immune cells can lead to cancer in animal models. Knowing the exact nature of these editing errors will be helpful in designing therapeutic enzymes based on these molecular scissors, researchers say.

Evidence for cognitive training efficacy in TBI: (10th September, 2015) Results of a randomized clinical trial of a cognitive intervention to improve learning and memory in individuals with traumatic brain injury have been published. The treatment protocol, the modified Story Memory Technique, was found to improve memory in adults with moderate to severe TBI, providing the first Class I evidence for the efficacy of this intervention in the TBI population.

Struggles with sleep may affect heart disease risk: (10th September, 2015) Young and middle-aged adults who get too much or too little sleep or have poor quality sleep are at higher risk for the early signs of heart disease than those who get adequate, good quality sleep, research shows.

Reduced heart rate variability may indicate greater vulnerability to PTSD: (10th September, 2015) A prospective longitudinal study of US Marines suggests that reduced heart rate variability -- the changing time interval

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between heartbeats -- may be a contributing risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Major study moves a step closer to treatments for severe asthma: (09th September, 2015) Initial findings from a major study have helped identify key characteristics of severe asthma, which will help with the development of new treatments for patients with the condition. For detail mail to editor KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

Rabies • Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral disease which occurs in more

than 150 countries and territories.• Dogs are the source of the vast majority of human rabies deaths.• Rabies elimination is feasible by vaccinating dogs.• Infection causes tens of thousands of deaths every year, mostly in

Asia and Africa.• 40% of people who are bitten by suspect rabid animals are

children under 15 years of age.• Immediate wound cleansing with soap and water after contact

with a suspect rabid animal can be life-saving.• Every year, more than 15 million people worldwide receive a post-

bite vaccination to prevent the disease; this is estimated to preventhundreds of thousands of rabies deaths annually.Rabies is an infectious viral disease that is almost always fatalfollowing the onset of clinical signs. In more than 99% of humancases, the rabies virus is transmitted by domestic dogs. Rabiesaffects domestic and wild animals, and is spread to people throughbites or scratches, usually via saliva.Rabies is present on all continents with the exception ofAntarctica, but more than 95% of human deaths occur in Asia andAfrica.

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Rabies is a neglected disease of poor and vulnerable populations whose deaths are rarely reported and where human vaccines and immunoglobulin are not readily available or accessible. It occurs mainly in remote rural communities where children between the age of 5–14 years are the most frequent victims. The average cost of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) can be the cost of catastrophic expenses for poor populations, since a course of PEP can cost US$ 40 in Africa and US$ 49 in Asia, where the average daily income is about US$ 1–2 per person. Prevention: Eliminating rabies in dogs: Rabies is a vaccine-preventable disease. Vaccinating dogs is the most cost-effective strategy for preventing rabies in people. Dog vaccination will drive down not only the deaths attributable to rabies but also the need for PEP as a part of dogbite patient care. Preventive immunization in people: The same safe and effective vaccines can be used for pre-exposure immunization. This is recommended for travellers spending a lot of time outdoors, especially in rural areas, involved in activities such as bicycling, camping, or hiking as well as for long-term travellers and expatriates living in areas with a significant risk of exposure. Pre-exposure immunization is also recommended for people in certain high-risk occupations such as laboratory workers dealing with live rabies virus and other rabies-related viruses (lyssaviruses), and people involved in any activities that might bring them professionally or otherwise into direct contact with bats, carnivores, and other mammals in rabies-affected areas. As children are considered at higher risk because they tend to play with animals, may receive more severe bites, or may not report bites, their immunization could be considered if living in or visiting high-risk areas. Symptoms: The incubation period for rabies is typically 1–3 months, but may vary from <1 week to >1 year. The initial symptoms of rabies are fever and often pain or an unusual or unexplained tingling,

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pricking or burning sensation (paraesthesia) at the wound site. As the virus spreads through the central nervous system, progressive, fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord develops. Two forms of the disease can follow. People with furious rabies exhibit signs of hyperactivity, excited behaviour, hydrophobia and sometimes aerophobia. After a few days, death occurs by cardiorespiratory arrest. Paralytic rabies accounts for about 30% of the total number of human cases. This form of rabies runs a less dramatic and usually longer course than the furious form. The muscles gradually become paralyzed, starting at the site of the bite or scratch. A coma slowly develops, and eventually death occurs. The paralytic form of rabies is often misdiagnosed, contributing to the under-reporting of the disease. Diagnosis: No tests are available to diagnose rabies infection in humans before the onset of clinical disease, and unless the rabies-specific signs of hydrophobia or aerophobia are present, the clinical diagnosis may be difficult. Human rabies can be confirmedintra-vitam and post mortem by various diagnostic techniques aimed at detecting whole virus, viral antigens or nucleic acids in infected tissues (brain, skin, urine or saliva). Transmission: People are usually infected following a deep bite or scratch by an infected animal. Dogs are the main host and transmitter of rabies. They are the cause of human rabies deaths in Asia and Africa. Bats are the source of most human rabies deaths in the Americas. Bat rabies has also recently emerged as a public health threat in Australia and western Europe. Human deaths following exposure to foxes, raccoons, skunks, jackals, mongooses and other wild carnivore host species are very rare. Transmission can also occur when infectious material – usually saliva – comes into direct contact with human mucosa or fresh skin wounds. Human-to-human transmission by bite is theoretically possible but has never been confirmed.

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Rarely, rabies may be contracted by inhalation of virus-containing aerosol or via transplantation of an infected organ. Ingestion of raw meat or other tissues from animals infected with rabies is not a source of human infection. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) means the treatment of a bite victim that is started immediately after exposure to rabies in order to prevent rabies infection. This consists of:

• local treatment of the wound, initiated as soon as possible afterexposure;

• a course of potent and effective rabies vaccine that meets WHOstandards; and

• the administration of rabies immunoglobulin, if indicated.Effective treatment soon after exposure to rabies can prevent theonset of symptoms and death.Local treatment of the wound:This involves first-aid of the wound that includes immediate andthorough flushing and washing of the wound for a minimum of 15minutes with soap and water, detergent, povidone iodine or othersubstances that kill the rabies virus.

Jeenatara Begum Assistant Professor

GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS Cholera – United Republic of Tanzania: (11th

September, 2015) The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) of Tanzania has notified WHO of foci of cholera outbreaks in the country. Rorya district in the Mara region of Tanzania was the first area to report a cholera outbreak. By late July 2015, the Kigoma region also became affected – although no new case has

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been recorded in this area in more than three weeks. On 25 August, new foci of cholera were identified in Dar es Salaam, Pwani (Coast), Iringa and Morogoro. The cholera outbreak in the Dar es Salaam region began on 15 August, whilst the outbreak in the Morogoro region started on 18 August. As of 6 September, the cumulative number of cholera cases (both suspected and confirmed) is 971 cases, including 13 deaths. Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa in the affected areas. Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmacognosy,

Phytochemistry & Natural Products will be held on 26th to 28th October, 2015 at Hydrabad.

DRUGS UPDATES FDA Approves Humira (adalimumab) for Moderate

to Severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa: (10th September, 2015) AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a global biopharmaceutical company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Humira(adalimumab) for the treatment of moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). Humira is now the first and only FDA-approved therapy for adults with HS. Read more

CAMPUS NEWS SAGAR DUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE FEST-ASTERICA 2015

WINNER: GNIPST stood first in the FASHION SHOW competition of Sagar Dutta Medical College Fest:

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Congratulation to the participants- Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2nd year) Riya Taran (B.Pharm 4th year) Moktar Hossain (B.Pharm 4th year) Chandrika Saha (B.Pharm 4th year) Swaranjeet Banik (B.Pharm 4th year) Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rd year) Ranit Kundu (M.Pharm 1st year) Susmita Kar (B.Pharm 2nd year) Md. Nadeem Shah (B.Pharm 4th year) Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year) Sunanda (M.Pharm 1st year) Best Male Model of ASTERICA 2k15: Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2nd year) Best Female Model of ASTERICA 2k15: Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rd year) Anchor: Sreejita Roy (B.Sc ) Solo Singing competition: Sayantan Goswami (B.Pharm 4th year):winner Arpita (B.Sc) :2nd runner up

CARNIVAL OF CANVASS: On 4th September the Students of GNIPST celebrated the freshers party for Masters degree students. On 4th September the students of GNIPST celebrated Teachers’ Day. ESPERANZA:

On 21st August, 2015 the 1st year students of GNIPST were welcomed in the Freshers Welcome Programme ‘ESPERANZA’.

HOMAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT DR A P J ABDUL KALAM: On 31st July, 2015 all the students and teachers of GNIPST paid their homage for our former president Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: GNIPST has been certified by the Alumni Association under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961. FAREWELL PROGRAMME:

On 15th May 2015 GNIPST celebrated the farewell programme ‘Sesh Chithi’ for the final year students of M.Pharm, M.Sc, B.Pharm, B.Sc and BHM. JIS SAMMAN 2015

On 11th May, 2015 GNIPST attended the JIS SAMMAN 2015. JIS SAMMAN Awards: • Best College (Non Engineering):

GNIPST• Best Principal:

Dr (Prof.) Avijit Sengupta• Best HOD:

Mr. Jaydip Ray• Best Faculty:

Mr. Debabrata Ghoshdastidar (Pharmacy)Dr. Swati Chakraborty (Life Sciences)

• Best faculty since inception:Mr. Jaydip Ray

• Best Office Staff:Ms. Jaya Banerjee

• Best technical Assistant:Mr. Somnath Majhi

• College Blue:Avik Paul

• Highest DGPA of 2014:B.Pharm:Purbali Chakraborty (4th year)Diksha Kumari (3rd year)Aishika Dutta (2nd year)Sampita Paul (1st year)M.Pharm:

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Aritra Mukherjee (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) Mounomukhar Bhattacharya (Pharmacology) B.Sc (Biotechnology): Papiya Saha (3rd year) Shomasree Das (2nd year) Ayanita Basak (1st year) B.Sc (Microbiology): Bonhisikha Chatterjee (3rd year) Riaz Hossain (2nd year) Soumi Chowdhury (1st year) BHM: Bishal Roy (3rd year) Shreyabhanja Chowdhury (2nd year) Recitation:

Udita Majumder Debate:

Srijita Roy Poushali Ganguly Quiz:

Arani Ray Dipayan Nath Band:

Syantan Ghoswami Anurag Ghosh Atanu Mondal Arka Khamaru Ritobroto Paul Abhirup Dasgupta

Fashion: Md. Nadeem Shah Koustav Sarkar Shaksar Saha Avirup Dasgupta Ranit Kundu

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Namrata Ganguly Shreyasee Mitra Chandrika Saha Debopriya Chatterjee Riya Taran

Innovative Modeling: Ankit Chowdhury Kartik Koley Mudasar Manna Dipan Chaterjee Abhishek Singh Kaustav Pal Manojit Dutta SPIRIT JIS 2015

On 03th to 05th April, 2015 JIS organised SPIRIT JIS 2015. GPAT 2015 Result:

The following B.Pharm. final year students have qualified, GPAT-2015. We congratulate them all. Diksha Kumari Rupanjay Bhattacharya Avik Paul Xtasy 2015: GNIPST is going to organize the Tech Fest ‘Xtasy 2015’ from 30th March, 2015 to 1st April, 2015.

FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME: The FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME was organized by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Training & Placement Cell, GNIPST in collaboration with Indian Pharmacy Graduates’ Association (IPGA), Bengal Branch from 21st February to 11th April, 2015 at GNIPST Auditorium. On 21

st February, 2015 the Finishing School Training Programme of

GNIPST was inaugurated by Sri Soumen Mukhopadhyay, Deputy Director, Drug Control Office, Goutam Kr. Sen, President, IPGA, Mr. Subroto Saha, Asst. Directorate, Drug Control Office, Mr.

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Ranendra Chakraborty, Sales Manager and Associate Director Dr. Reddys Laboratory. On 28th February, 2015 Dr. D. Roy, Former Deputy Drug Controller, Mr. Sujoy Chakraborty, divisional Therapy Manager, Cipla and Mr. Vikranjit Biswas, Senior Manager, Learning & Development, Cipla delivered their valuable lectures in the 2nd day

FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST. On 14th March, 2015 Mr. Milindra Bhattacharya, Senior Manager, QA & QC, Emami Ltd. and Mr. Joydev Bhoumik, Manager, Operation, Ranbaxy Laboratory Limited delivered their valuable lectures in the 3rd day FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST. On 21st March, 2015 Mr. Tridib Neogi, Associate Vice-President (Quality Assurance), Albert David Ltd. delivered his valuable lectures in the 4th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST. On 28th March, 2015 Dr. Gautam Chaterjee, an Alumni of Jadavpur University and presently associated with NIPER delivered his valuable lectures in the 5th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST. On 11th April, 2015 the closing ceremony of the FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME was held in GNIPST Auditorium.

JOBS: All the students of Final Year B. Pharm and M. Pharm are hereby informed that an interview will be conducted on 23rd May, 2015 by Standard Pharmaceuticals Ltd. GSK for post: Production, QA, QC. All the students of Final Year B. Pharm and M. Pharm are hereby informed that an interview will be conducted by GSK for sales and marketing job. Details given below:

Date: 27.03.2015Time: 09:45 amVenue : GSK Consumer Healthcare Limited, Unit No. 208,

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2nd Floor, Ecospace Campus B (3 B), New Town, Rajarhat, 24 Pgs (N). Kolkata-700156.

THYROCARE provisionally selected 15 students from JIS Group. Amongst these, 3 students of B. Sc (H) Biotechnology and M. Sc Biotechnology have been selected. Ipsita Mondal (M. Sc Biotechnology)Debriti Paul (M. Sc Biotechnology)Debopriya Chatterjee {B. Sc (H) Biotechnology}

The final year students of B.Pharm (31 students) and B.Sc (11 students) attended the pooled campus drive of Abbott India Ltd. on 10th March, 2015 at Jadavpur University. Among them 17 students have gone through to the final round of this pooled campus drive and short listed for final selection.

ACHIEVEMENT: Congratulations to Anurag Chanda, student of B.Pharm final year

who have got the 1st prize in poster presentation event in Prakriti 2015 at Department of Agricultural and Food engineering, IIT, Kharagpur.

OTHERS: On 24th and 25th February, 2015 Swamiji of Gourio Math wasdelivered some motivational lectuers in GNIPST. The students of GNIPST participated in the 4th Sardar JodhSinghTrophy organised by NIT on 20th February, 2015. On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the Reunionprogramme“Reminiscence Reloaded 2015”.

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STUDENTS’ SECTION WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST????

What is trypanophobia?

Answer of Previous Issue’s Questions: US open

Identify the person

Answer of Previous Issue’s Image: Indra Nooyi

Send your thoughts/Quiz/Puzzles/games/write-ups or any other contributions for Students’ Section& answers of this Section at gnipstbulletin@gmail.com

EDITOR’S NOTE

It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 1st issue of 49th Volume of GNIPST BULLETIN. All the followers of GNIPST BULLETIN are able to avail the bulletin through facebook account ‘GNIPST bulletin’ I am very much thankful to all the GNIPST members and readers who are giving their valuable comments, encouragements and supports. I am also thankful to Dr. Abhijit Sengupta, Director of GNIPST for his valuable advice and encouragement. Special thanks to Dr. Prerona Saha, Mr. Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar

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and Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya for their kind co-operation and technical supports. Thank you Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya for the questionnaires of the student section. An important part of the improvement of the bulletin is the contribution of the readers. You are invited to send in your write ups, notes, critiques or any kind of contribution for the forthcoming special and regular issue.

ARCHIVE The general body meeting of APTI, Bengal Branch has been

conducted at GNIPST on 15th June, 2012. The program started witha nice presentation by Dr. Pulok Kr. Mukherjee, School of NaturalProducts, JU on the skill to write a good manuscript forpublication in impact journals. It was followed by nearly two hourlong discussion among more than thirty participants on differentaspects of pharmacy education. Five nonmember participantsapplied for membership on that very day.

GNIPST is now approved by AICTE and affiliated to WBUT forconducting the two years’ post graduate course (M.Pharm)in PHARMACOLOGY. The approved number of seat is 18.

The number of seats in B.Pharm. has been increased from 60 to120.

AICTE has sanctioned a release of grant under ResearchPromotion Scheme (RPS) during the financial year 2012-13toGNIPST as per the details below:a. Beneficiary Institution: Guru Nanak Institution of PharmaceuticalScience & Technology.

b. Principal Investigator: Dr. LopamudraDutta.

c. Grant-in-aid sanctioned:Rs. 16,25000/- onlyd. Approved duration: 3 years

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e. Title of the project: Screening and identification of potentialmedicinal plant of Purulia & Bankura districts of West Bengal with respect to diseases such as diabetes, rheumatism, Jaundice, hypertension and developing biotechnological tools for enhancing bioactive molecules in these plants.

Activity Clubs of GNIPST: Name of Club Member Faculty SPORTS Mr. Debabrata GhoshDastidar LITERARY AND PAINTING Ms. Jeenatara Begum SCIENCE AND INNOVATIVE MODELLING

Mr. Samrat Bose

ECO Ms. Sumana Roy SOCIAL SERVICES Dr. Asis Bala PHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Sanchari Bhattacharya CULTURAL Ms. Priyanka Ray DEBATE AND EXTEMPORE Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya

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