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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 t

last years 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 academexcellence and continuous improvement.

I believe that excellence in education is aided by creating a learning environment in which all learners asupported in maximizing their potential and talents. Education needs to focus on personalized learni

and instruction, while promoting an education system that is impartial, universally accessible, and meeti

the needs of all students.

It is of paramount importance that our learners have sufficient motivation and encouragement in order

achieve their aims. We are all very proud of you, our students, and your accomplishments and looforward 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 looki

forward and wants our Institute to flourish as a Post Graduate Institute of Excellence. Steps are taken

this direction and fruits of these efforts will be received by our students in the near future. Our Teacheare committed and dedicated for the development of the institution by imparting their knowledge and pl

the role of facilitator as well as role model to our students.

The Pharmacy profession is thriving with a multitude of possibilities, opportunities and positi

challenges. At Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, our focus is on holist

needs of our students.

I am confident that the students of GNIPST will recognize all the possibilities, take full advantage of t

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

this path.

My best wishes to all.

Dr. A. Sengupta

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EDITORIAL BOARD

CHIEF EDITOR DR. ABHIJIT SENGUPTAEDITOR MS. JEENATARA BEGUM

ASSOCIATE EDITOR MR. DIPANJAN MANDAL

HISTORICAL ARTICLE

Rudolf Virchow

1821 1902Rudolf Virchow was an eminent pathologist and politician, widelyregarded as one of the greatest and most influential physicians in

history. A founding father of both pathology and social medicine,Virchow analyzed the effects of disease in various organs and tissuesof the human body. He correctly identified that diseases are causedby malfunctioning cells.

A man of boundless energy, he simultaneously had four careers:medical scientist, editor of several medical journals, politician, andanthropologist. Although he played a tremendous part in riddingmedicine of unscientific practices, he also made some rather large

scientific errors.

Beginnings

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was born on October 13, 1821 in thetown of Schivelbein, in the German Kingdom of Prussia. Today thetown is called Swidwin and lies in Poland.

His father was Carl Christian Siegfried Virchow, a farmer, and towntreasurer of Schivelbein; his mother was Johanna Maria Hesse. The

couple were not especially well-off financially and Rudolf was theironly child. His parents loved the natural world and passed this loveon to their son, taking him on bird watching trips.

Rudolf attended elementary school in Schivelbein. From his earliestdays at school, he seems to have been exceptionally gifted


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intellectually, so much so that his parents paid for extra lessons topush him forward. From elementary school he progressed to theGymnasium (a high school for academically strong students) inKslin, about 40 miles from his hometown.

Rudolfs high school curriculum was classical, with heavy emphasison Greek and Latin. This was not a problem for Rudolf, who had apassion and remarkable ability for learning languages. In addition toGreek and Latin, he also learned Dutch, English, French and Hebrew.In his spare time between high school and medical school he taughthimself Italian.

He graduated from high school in 1839, aged 17.

Abandoning his original idea of becoming a pastor he didnt thinkhis voice was strong enough to be an effective preacher he wasawarded a scholarship to study medicine at the Friedrich-WilhelmsUniversity in Prussias capital city, Berlin. Completing his course in1843, he then spent short amounts of time in a number of differentmedical jobs.

His passion was pathology the study of diseases.

Politics in BriefA man with incredible energy levels, Virchow reveled in animportant political career in addition to his scientific career. Herewell be concerned mainly with the science. Suffice to say thatVirchows politics were liberal. He promoted better education, betterliving conditions, and better health for the poor. These politicalbeliefs coincided with his ideas for social medicine.

Virchow was elected to the German Parliament in 1880 to represent

the party he helped found, the German Progress Party. He had asharp-tongue, and his political opponents became wary of hissarcasm. Virchow was ardently anti-Catholic, believing the CatholicChurchs influence led to bad outcomes for society and the poor.


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Rudolf Virchows Contributions to Science and Pathology

Autopsies and Leukemia

Virchow carried out the first systematic autopsies involving

microscopic examination of tissue. One such autopsy in 1845 led tohis first published contribution to science.

Virchow identified and named the disease leukemia and offered thebest description of it available. He named the disease by combiningthe Greek wordsleukos(white) and aima(blood). Even in his earliestwork he focused heavily on cells.

Outflanking the journals that blocked publication of his work

In 1847 Virchow started a new job, teaching pathological anatomy atthe University of Berlin. Although he had once believed his voice tooweak to preach, he had now become a supremely self-assured teacherand researcher.

He was also ambitious, and had grown increasingly frustrated by theeditors of German medical journals. They refused to publish some ofhis research papers, and, in Virchows opinion, were hamstrung byout-of-date ideas about medicine.

In his new teaching job he met Benno Reinhardt, another youngphysician who shared his dim view of the medical journals. Virchowand Reinhardt decided to bypass the journals stuffy editors entirely.

They launched their own journal,Archive for Pathological Anatomy andPhysiology and Clinical Medicine. This new journal insisted all medicalcontributions should be based on robust, well-researched science.Virchow utterly rejected medical practices that had persisted for

millennia, which he believed lacked a scientific basis, suchasGalensuse of the humours.

Virchow and Reinhardts journal has proven to be remarkablyresilient. Today it is still one of the leading medical journals. It isnow called Virchows Archiv. Sadly its founding co-editor Benno


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Reinhardt died young in 1852. Virchow, who had a prodigiousappetite for hard work, became the journals sole editor until his owndeath in 1902.

Epidemics and Public HealthEarly in 1848 Virchow was sent by the Prussian Government toUpper Silesia to investigate the typhus epidemic that had begun theprevious year and was claiming thousands of lives.

After studying the situation, Virchow characterized the peasants ofUpper Silesia as lazy and unhygienic. He was shocked at the extremepoverty they lived in and their extremely poor diet. He blamed theirplight on the combined effects of the Catholic Church sapping the

people of ambition and local landowners removing any wealthgenerated in Upper Silesia to be spent elsewhere.

The medical consensus at the time, accepted by Virchow, was thatdiseases like typhus are caused by miasma bad air caused byrotting matter. Virchow believed malaria was caused by rottingvegetable miasma, while typhus was caused by rotting animalmiasma. So, although he rejected some doctrines of medicine taughtin ancient times by Galen, he did not question the truth of miasmas.

Virchow did not recognize that epidemics are spread bymicroorganisms.

He formed the view that the main cause of the epidemic in UpperSilesia was the terrible conditions most of the people were living in.He decided that if living conditions could be improved, there wouldbe no more epidemics.

Epidemics, he said, were best treated politically rather thanmedically. This is not entirely correct. However, he wascorrect to saythat improving peoples living conditions, hygiene, and diet would behighly beneficial to their general health and well-being. And,although he did not know it, better hygiene slows the spread of themicroorganisms that cause epidemics such as typhus, and, morerecently, Ebola, bird flu, and SARS.


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The Beginning of Social Medicine

Never slow to act on his beliefs, in July 1848 Virchow founded theweekly magazine Medical Reformto promote his new concept of social

medicine and his idea that:physicians are the natural advocates of the poor.

The magazine ran for about a year before folding, but in that time itwas highly influential in promoting improved public healthfor everyonein Germany, including the poorest.

The Germ Theory of Disease

The germ theory of disease had been around for many centuries, but

was not taken seriously by most scientists until Louis Pasteurstarted advancing it, backed with experimental data, in the late1850s.

Virchow opposed the germ theory of disease.

His own belief was that cells became diseased as a result of internalprocesses resulting from imbalances in the body. In fact, Virchowwas partly correct: imbalances in the body canlead to cells

malfunctioning and becoming diseased.However, cells can also become diseased when they are attacked bymicroorganisms. Virchow was wrong to oppose the germ theory.

Some Personal Details and the End

Virchow married Rose Mayer in 1850. They had six children: Karl,who became a chemist; Hans, who became an anatomist; Adele;Ernst; Marie; and Hanna Elisabeth.

Apart from Karl, who died aged 61, the Virchow children enjoyedrather long lives particularly for the era they were alive in livingto be 87, 99, 84, 85 and 90 years old respectively.

Rudolph Virchow died from heart failure at the age of 80 in Berlin onSeptember 5, 1902. He had fractured his thigh falling from a tramcar


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in January of that year. Although at first he seemed to be recovering,he gradually fell deeper into ill-health. He was buried in the Old St.-Matthus Churchyard in Schneberg, Berlin. Rose was buried besidehim following her death in 1913.

NEWS UPDATE

Researchers were looking at fMRI brain scans

of professional ballet dancers to measure the

long-term effects of learning: (29th January,

2016)

Initial learning and performance at seven weeks led to increase inactivation in cortical regions during visualization of the dancebeing learned when compared to the first week, shows a study onballet cancers. However, at 34 weeks, it showed reducedactivation in comparison to week seven.

Significant number of young people with

undiagnosed bipolar disorder: (29th January,

2016)Around 10 percent of UK primary care patients prescribedantidepressants for depression or anxiety have undiagnosedbipolar disorder, a study has found.

Life history effects on the molecular clock of

autosomes, sex chromosomes: (28th January,

2016)Accounting for the effect of sex-specific life history events, such as

the onset of puberty in male hominids, on mutation rates can helpreconcile mutation-rate-based estimates of the split betweenchimpanzees and humans with the fossil record, suggesting thatthe split may have been as recent as 6.6 million years ago, newresearch indicates.


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New insights into Group A Streptococcus: (28th

January, 2016)Group A Streptococcus remains a global health burden with an

estimated 700 million cases reported annually, and more than halfa million deaths due to severe infections. A new avenue has beenfound for the treatment of the pathogen.

Ischemic renal failure and organ damage: (28th

January, 2016)Every year acute renal failure affects over 13 million people andleads to 1.7 million deaths across the globe. It often develops whenan insufficient supply of oxygen reaches the kidneys, a condition

called ischemia. Researchers have traced one of the causes ofischemia-related renal failure to a signaling molecule and aspecific type of tissue.

What is the optimal dose of medication to

prevent the evolution of drug resistance? : (28th

January, 2016)A new model shows that the standard practice of treating

infections with the highest tolerable dose of anti-microbemedications may not be best for preventing the evolution of drugresistance in all cases.

Researchers document how normal diet

establishes immune tolerance conditions in the

small intestine: (28thJanuary, 2016)The immune system has built-in tolerance mechanisms thatharness itself from responding to benign foreign antigensbeneficial to our system, like food. When such tolerance fails, wesuffer from an overt immune reaction, such as food allergies,which can be severe enough to be fatal. Now researchersdocument how normal diet establishes immune toleranceconditions in the small intestine.


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Study identifies protein that causes problems

for Cystic fibrosis or CF lungs: (28thJanuary,

2016)A new study provides an answer for a long-standing scientificpuzzle: why don't mice with CF gene mutations develop the life-threatening lung disease that affects most people with CF? Theanswer to the puzzle identifies a proton pump called ATP12A as apotential target for new CF therapies.

First demonstration of a cancer arising from a

single cell: (28thJanuary, 2016)

For the first time, researchers have visualized the origins of cancerfrom the first affected cell and watched its spread in a live animal.This work could change the way scientists understand melanomaand other cancers and could lead to new, early treatments beforethe cancer has taken hold.

Cellulose nanogenerators could one day power

implanted biomedical devices: (27th January,

2016)Implantable electronics that can deliver drugs, monitor vital signsand perform other health-related roles are on the horizon. Butfinding a way to power them remains a challenge. Now scientistshave built a flexible nanogenerator out of cellulose, an abundantnatural material, that could potentially harvest energy from thebody -- its heartbeats, blood flow and other almost imperceptiblebut constant movements.

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KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

First topical treatment for common benign skin

lesionsAn investigation into the molecular mechanisms responsible for themost common type of benign skin lesion may lead to the firstnonsurgical treatment for the growths called seborrheic keratoses(SKs), which in addition to being cosmetically unattractive are oftenworrisome to patients. A paper by Massachusetts General Hospital(MGH) researchers, published online in theJournal of InvestigativeDermatology, reports that blocking the action of a specific signalingenzyme leads to the death of cultured SK cells and the breakdown ofSK lesions. SKs are dependent on an enzyme called Akt for survival.Inhibition of this enzyme in SK cells causes rapid cell death whilehaving no effect on normal skin cells. Sometimes called "senilewarts," "barnacles" or "liver spots," SKs vary in color from tan toblack, can be flat or raised, and range in size from quite small to aninch or more across. They become more common with aging; mostindividuals over 40 are likely to have a few, and some can havehundreds scattered across the torso and face. While SKs have some

microscopic features in common with their malignant counterpartsquamous cell carcinoma and most have mutations in genes knownto be involved in cancer, SKs never become malignant.

Previous research by members of the MGH team identified increasedexpression in SKs of growth factor receptors and other genesthought to be involved in skin cell differentiation and in skin cancerdevelopment. Neel explains, "We still don't know why SKs resistmalignant transformation but we think studying SKs will help us

identify factors that prevent benign lesions from becomingmalignant.

The two genes that are most frequently mutated in SKs -- calledPI3K and FGFR3 -- code for proteins that affect the activation of theAkt kinase enzyme, which is known to block several cell-deathrelated pathways. Although previous studies have reported higher


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levels of activated Akt in SKs than in normal skin, determining thesignificance of that finding was hampered by the inability to growSK cells in the laboratory. Through trial and error and a bit of luck,the MGH team identified conditions that permit SK cells to be

cultured, opening up an array of opportunities for studying theirbiology.

Cultured SK cells were exposed to a panel of specific kinaseinhibitors, confirming that the development and maintenance of SKcells requires the presence of activated Akt. One particular Aktinhibitor, called A44 (A-443654, produced by AbbviePharmaceuticals), was by far the most efficient at inducing the deathof cultured SK cells. Small doses of A44 initiated a cell-death

program called apoptosis. The researchers also found that applyingA44 to intact SK lesions that had been excised from patients' skinand maintained in culture caused the lesions to die throughapoptosis.

"Within 48 hours of exposure to A44, the SK lesions from patientscompletely disintegrated," says co-author Anna Mandinova, MD,PhD, of MGH's Cutaneous Research Biology Center. "This effect wasvery specific to SK lesions, as A44 was harmless both to normal skin

cells and to malignant squamous cell carcinoma cells."The MGH team is continuing to investigate the potential of A44 andseveral other compounds in order to identify the best candidate forclinical trials of a topical treatment for SKs. A patent applicationbased on the study findings has been filed, and the team iscontinuing to pursue what SKs can reveal about the moleculardifferences between benign and malignant tumors.

"Understanding why SKs never become malignant, even though they

have mutations in classic oncogenes, was the primary question wewanted to address when we started studying this skin lesion.Finding a novel inhibitor of SKs was a serendipitous byproduct ofthat inquiry," says Neel, who is an assistant professor of Dermatologyat Harvard Medical School. "We suspect that other, yet-to-be-determined mutations in SKs are incompatible with the mutations


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that lead to malignancy. For example, p53 is commonly mutated bothin sun-damaged skin and in cancers like squamous cell carcinomabut is never mutated in SKs. We hope that pinpointing othermutations underlying SK development will help us understand how

they resist becoming malignant, which could inform us of new waysof treating more dangerous tumors."

Jeenatara BegumAssistant Professor

GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWSMiddle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

(MERS-CoV) Thailand: (29thJanuary, 2016)On 24 January 2016, the National IHR Focal Point of Thailandnotified WHO of 1 laboratory-confirmed case of Middle Eastrespiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. This isthe countrys second case of MERS-CoV infection (see DONpublished on 10 July 2015).Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

National seminar on Innovation in Pharmaceutical Research at GPulla Reddy College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad will be held on 6thFebruary 2016.


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DRUGS UPDATES

FDA Approves Zepatier (elbasvir and

grazoprevir) for Chronic Hepatitis C Genotypes 1

and 4: (28thJanuary, 2016)The U.S. Food and Drug Administration

approvedZepatier (elbasvir and grazoprevir) with or without

ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)

genotypes 1 and 4 infections in adult patients.

Read more

CAMPUS NEWS

GNIPST Cricket 2016 result:Winner:B.Pharm 4thyear

Runners:B.Pharm 2ndyear

Man of the match, best wicket taker, best batsman: B.Pharm 4 th

year student Gourab Dey

GNIPST Sports 2016 result:Relay Race for Boys:

1st: Maruf Billa, Somenath Dian, Subhajit Majumdar, Abu Sufia

100 meter Flat Race for Girls:

1st: Nirmita Gupta

2nd: Joyati Ghosh

3rd: Moutan Roy

Long Jump for Girls:1st: Aindrila Bhoumik

2nd: Manpreet Ghai

3rd: Anjali Mondal

Shotput for Girls:

1st: Koyal Ghosh


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2nd: Nirmita Gupta

3rd: Sneha Pal

Discuss for Girls:

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: Manpreet Ghai2nd: Nirmita Gupta

3rd: Sneha Pal

Sack race for Girls:

1st: Nirmita Gupta

2nd: Aindrila Bhoumik

3rd: Moutan Roy

Balance race for Girls:

1st: Indira Saha2nd: Nirmita Gupta

3rd: Aindrila Bhoumik

Relay Race for Girls:

Aindrila Bhoumik

Manpreet Ghai

Anjali Mondal

Joyati GhoshSkipping for Girls:

1st: Aindrila Bhoumik

2nd: Anjali Mondal

3rd: Manpreet Ghai

200 meter Flat Race for Girls:

1st: Anjali Mondal

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Sack race for Boys:

1st: Maruf Billa Akunjee

2nd: Abu Sufian

3rd: Sufian Sk.


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100 meter Race for Boys:

1st: Abu Sufian

2nd: Maruf Billa Akunjee

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: Arijit Mitra Thakur200 meter Flat Race for Boys:

1st: Maruf Billa Akunjee

2nd: Subrajit Mazumder

3rd: Arijit Mitra Thakur

Long Jump for Boys:

1st: Abu Sufian

2nd: Maruf Billa Akunjee

3rd: Dipankar Kamila

Go for Goal for Boys:

1st: Rohan Dutta

2nd: Souvik Ganguly

3rd: Ankit Chowdhury

Discuss throw for Boys:

1st: Bishal Kr. Singh

2nd: Raj Kumar3rd: Arijit Mitra Thakur

Shotput for Boys:

1st: Arijit Mitra Thakur

2nd: Bishal Kr. Singh

Tug of War for Boys:

Dipu Roy, Doyal Hui, Ankit Dey, Rohan Dutta, Bishal Kumar

Singh.Tug of War for Girls:

Indira Saha, Joyati Ghosh, Sneha Pal, Manpreet Ghai, Debolina

Roy.


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On 29thJanuary to 30thJanuary 2016 GNIPST organized the cricketmatch.

On 27th

January and 28th

January 2016 GNIPST organized theAnnual Sports programme.

From 19th January, 2016 to 28th January, 2016 B.Pharm final yearstudents had their Industrial Tour in Gangtok, Sikkim and Pelling.

They visited Alkem Laboratories Ltd. Sikkim under the

supervision of Ms. Jeenatara Begum, Mr. Samrat Bose and Mr.

Dipanjan Mondal.

On 12

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January, 2016 the students and teachers of GNIPSTcelebrated youth day on the occasion of 153rdbirth anniversary of

Swami Vivekananda.

A competition on Innovative and Scientific Modelling will be heldin Tech-Fest 2016. Only B.Pharm students are eligible for

participation. Last date for topic submission is 11th January, 2016

and last date for Model submission is 20th January, 2016. Posters

are also invited on different subjects. Last date for soft copy of theposters submission is 11thJanuary, 2016.

A Bulletin committee will be formed and all the committeemembers are requested to attend the Bulletin Committee Meeting

on 4thJanuary, 2016.

On 23rdDecember 2015, a meeting was held in GNIPST for Bulletincommittee formation and Tech-Fest 2016.

Dr. Asis Bala got 1

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prize in the Oral presentation conducted bySFE in Jadavpur.

Recived a Grant in aid from Department of Science &Technology, Govt of WestBengal under the Scheme of Scientific

Project Research & Science Popularization Programme during the

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Grantee Institution: Guru Nanak institute of Pharmaceutical

Science & Technology

Principal Investigator:Dr Swati Chakraborty

Title of the Project: Identification of heavy metal chromium Cr(VI) & Nickel (Ni) tollerence bacteria to develop microbial

biosensors and role on secondary metabolite of medicinal plant

Bacopa monnieri(L) in metal contaminated soil of East Kolkata

Wetland.

Grant in Aid: Eighteen lakh Ninety Eight Thousand & One

Junior Research fellow for three years of duration

Some teachers and students of GNIPST attended the seminar SFE2015.

Report of National Seminar on Current Innovation inBiotechnology for Human Welfare:

1. Name of the Institute: Guru Nanak institute of PharmceuticalScience & Technology2. Sanctioning Authority: West Bengal State Council of Science& Technology, Department of Science & Technology, Government

of West Bengal for conducting Seminar for National Science Day.3. Seminar Topic : Current Innovation in Biotechnology forHuman Welfare.4.Amount Sanctioned:30,000/-5. Purpose of Utilisation:Celebration of National Science Day (7th

November 2015) One day National Seminar on CurrentInnovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare.

Eminent Speakers from Indian Stastical Institute, Viswa-Bharati

University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vidyalaya, National Instituteof Occupational Health ,Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute,Directorate of Drug Control(WB) etc. were invited for thepresentation in scientific lecture sessions.

There was scientific poster presentation competition among thestudents of different colleges of WestBengal. Total number of


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sixty three posters were selected for presentation and best threeposters were awarded .

I. First prize winners Poulami Majumdaer, Indrajit Karmakar,Suchandra Majumder, Pallab kanti halder from Jadavpur

University, Department of Pharmaceutical Science on Evaluationof invitro antidiabetic activity of methanol extract of Curcuma caesiarhizome,

II. Second Prize winners Susmita Dutta, Swati Chakraborty , GuruNanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, Optimization of biofilm poduction from Pseudomonas sp. andapplication in antimicrobial and bacteriocin producing activity ,

III. Third prize winners are jointly from Arindam Ganguly, Aparupa

Bhattacharya, Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science &Technology, Microbial fuel cell and Apurba Mukherjee , SutapaMukherjee, Madhumita Roy, Chittaranjan National CancerInstitute , The common Indian spice curcumin act as an enhancerof antitumor agent in Leukemia.

Around 580 delegates from different academic and reserchinstitutes attended the day long seminar

Swarangam:

On 9

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November, 2015 GNIPST organized the post puja and preKalipuja celebration programme Swarangam.

National Science Day 2015:On 7thNovember 2015, GNIPST organized a National Seminar on

Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare, on the

occasion of Science day 2015 on the theme of Science for Nation

Building. Sponsored by West Bengal State Council of Science &

Technology, Catalysed & Supported by National Council for

Science, Technology & communication, DST, New Delhi.Winners of Intracollege Football Tournament:

Congratulations to B.Pharm final year for their victory inIntracollege Football Tournament.

Intracollege Football Tournament:


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On 9thOctober and 10thOctober, 2015 GNIPST has organized theIntracollege Football Tournament.

EN BIOLET:On 5thand 6thOctober, 2015 seminar was held on EN-BIOLET by

Stone India Ltd.INDOOR BATTLE 2015

On 24th September, 2015 GNIPST organised the Indoor games(Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess for both Boys and Girls) IndoorBattle 2015.Congratulations to all winners and participants.The Winners are:Table Tennis (for Boys):

1st

: Soumen Dhara (M.Pharm, 2nd

year [Pharmacology])2nd: Ratul Banduri (B.Pharm, 3rdyear)3rd: Sneham Sen (B.Pharm, 3rdyear)Table Tennis (for Girls):1st: Sweta Saha (B.Sc [BT], 3rdyear)2nd: Moutan Roy (B.Pharm, 2ndyear)Carrom (for Boys):1st: Sk. Sajjat Ali (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Sk. Abdul Aslam

(B.Pharm, 3

rd

year)2nd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Rajib Singha Roy(B.Pharm, 4thyear)3rd: Arnab Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2ndyear [Pharmaceutics])and Achinta Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2ndyear [Pharmaceutics])Carrom (for Girls):1st: Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year) and Rituparna Das(B.Pharm 4thyear)2nd: Rinita DasBhowmik (B.H.M, 1styear) and Tania Datta (B.H.M,

1styear)3rd: Sushmita Sen (D.Pharm, 2ndyear) and Keya Das (D.Pharm, 2ndyear)Chess (for Boys):1st: Sayantan Dutta (B.Pharm, 3rdyear)2nd: Tanmoy Das Biswas (B.Pharm 4thyear)


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3rd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm 4thyear)Chess (for Girls):1st: Rituparna Das (B.Pharm 4thyear)2nd: Suchetana Dutta (B.Pharm 4thyear)

3rd: Krishnakali Basu (B.Pharm 4thyear)SAGAR DUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE FEST-ASTERICA 2015

WINNER:The students of GNIPST stood first in the FASHION SHOWcompetition of Sagar Dutta Medical College Fest:Congratulation to the participants-Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2ndyear)Riya Taran (B.Pharm 4thyear)

Moktar Hossain (B.Pharm 4th

year)Chandrika Saha (B.Pharm 4thyear)Swaranjeet Banik (B.Pharm 4thyear)Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rdyear)Ranit Kundu (M.Pharm 1styear)Susmita Kar (B.Pharm 2ndyear)Md. Nadeem Shah (B.Pharm 4thyear)Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4thyear)Sunanda (M.Pharm 1styear)Best Male Model of ASTERICA 2k15:Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2ndyear)Best Female Model of ASTERICA 2k15:Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rdyear)Anchor:Sreejita Roy (B.Sc )Solo Singingcompetition:Sayantan Goswami (B.Pharm 4thyear):winner

Arpita (B.Sc) :2nd

runner upCARNIVAL OF CANVASS:

On 4thSeptember the Students of GNIPST celebrated the freshersparty for Masters degree students.On 4th September the students of GNIPST celebrated TeachersDay.


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ESPERANZA:On 21st August, 2015 the 1st year students of GNIPST werewelcomed in the Freshers Welcome Programme ESPERANZA.

HOMAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT DR A P J ABDULKALAM:

On 31st July, 2015 all the students and teachers of GNIPST paidtheir homage for our former president Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

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

FAREWELL PROGRAMME:On 15th May 2015 GNIPST celebrated the farewell programmeSesh Chithi for the final year students of M.Pharm, M.Sc,B.Pharm, B.Sc and BHM.

JIS SAMMAN 2015On 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


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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: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 RoyPoushali Ganguly

Quiz:Arani RayDipayan Nath

Band:Syantan GhoswamiAnurag Ghosh


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Atanu MondalArka KhamaruRitobroto PaulAbhirup Dasgupta

Fashion:Md. Nadeem ShahKoustav SarkarShaksar SahaAvirup DasguptaRanit KunduNamrata GangulyShreyasee Mitra

Chandrika SahaDebopriya ChatterjeeRiya Taran

Innovative Modeling:Ankit ChowdhuryKartik KoleyMudasar MannaDipan Chaterjee

Abhishek SinghKaustav PalManojit Dutta

SPIRIT JIS 2015On 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 KumariRupanjay BhattacharyaAvik Paul

Xtasy 2015:GNIPST is going to organize the Tech Fest Xtasy 2015 from 30thMarch, 2015 to 1st April, 2015.


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FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME:The FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME wasorganized by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Training

& Placement Cell, GNIPST in collaboration with Indian PharmacyGraduates Association (IPGA), Bengal Branch from 21st Februaryto 11thApril, 2015 at GNIPST Auditorium.

On 21st

February, 2015 the Finishing School Training Programme ofGNIPST was inaugurated by Sri Soumen Mukhopadhyay, DeputyDirector, Drug Control Office, Goutam Kr. Sen, President, IPGA,Mr. Subroto Saha, Asst. Directorate, Drug Control Office, Mr.Ranendra Chakraborty, Sales Manager and Associate Director Dr.

Reddys Laboratory.On 28th February, 2015 Dr. D. Roy, Former Deputy DrugController, Mr. Sujoy Chakraborty, divisional Therapy Manager,Cipla and Mr. Vikranjit Biswas, Senior Manager, Learning &Development, Cipla delivered their valuable lectures in the 2nd dayFINISHING 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 valuablelectures in the 3rd day FINISHING SCHOOL TRAININGPROGRAMME of GNIPST.On 21st March, 2015 Mr. Tridib Neogi, Associate Vice-President(Quality Assurance), Albert David Ltd. delivered his valuablelectures in the 4th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAININGPROGRAMME of GNIPST.On 28th March, 2015 Dr. Gautam Chaterjee, an Alumni of JadavpurUniversity and presently associated with NIPER delivered his

valuable lectures in the 5th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAININGPROGRAMME of GNIPST.On 11th April, 2015 the closing ceremony of the FINISHINGSCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME was held in GNIPSTAuditorium.

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All the students of Final Year B. Pharm and M. Pharm are herebyinformed that an interview will be conducted on 23rdMay, 2015 byStandard 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 andmarketing job.Details given below:

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

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. ScBiotechnology 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 (11students) attended the pooled campus drive of Abbott India Ltd.

on 10th March, 2015 at Jadavpur University. Among them 17students have gone through to the final round of this pooledcampus drive and short listed for final selection.

ACHIEVEMENT:

Congratulations to Anurag Chanda, student of B.Pharm final yearwho have got the 1st prize in poster presentation event in Prakriti2015 at Department of Agricultural and Food engineering, IIT,Kharagpur.

OTHERS:On 24

th

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 20

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On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the ReunionprogrammeReminiscence Reloaded 2015.

STUDENTS SECTIONWHO CAN ANSWER FIRST????

Which non metal remains liquid at

room temperature?

Answer of Previous Issues Image

Paul erlich-father of chemotherapy

Send your thoughts/

Quiz/Puzzles/games/write-ups or any other

contributions for Students Section answ ers

of this Section at

[email protected]

EDITORS NOTE

It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 4th

issue of 52th

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, encouragementsand 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

and Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya for their kind co-operation and

technical supports. Thank you Mr. Soumya Bhattacharyafor the


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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 15thJune, 2012. The program started with

a nice presentation by Dr. Pulok Kr. Mukherjee, School of Natural

Products, JU on the skill to write a good manuscript for

publication in impact journals. It was followed by nearly two hour

long discussion among more than thirty participants on different

aspects of pharmacy education. Five nonmember participants

applied for membership on that very day.

GNIPST is now approved by AICTE and affiliated to WBUT for

conducting the two years post graduate course (M.Pharm) in

PH RM COLOGY The approved number of seat is 18.

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

120. AICTE has sanctioned a release of grant under Research

Promotion Scheme (RPS) during the financial year 2012-13to

GNIPST as per the details below:

a. Beneficiary Institution: Guru Nanak Institution of Pharmaceutical

Science & Technology.

b.Principal Investigator:Dr. LopamudraDutta.

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

e. Title of the project: Screening and identification of potential

medicinal plant of Purulia & Bankura districts of West Bengal

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hypertension and developing biotechnological tools for enhancing

bioactive molecules in these plants.

Activity Clubs of GNIPST:Name of Club Member FacultySPORTS Mr. Debabrata GhoshDastidarLITERARY AND PAINTING Ms. Jeenatara BegumSCIENCE AND INNOVATIVEMODELLING

Mr. Samrat Bose

ECO Ms. Sumana RoySOCIAL SERVICES Dr. Asis Bala

PHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Sanchari BhattacharyaCULTURAL Ms. Priyanka RayDEBATE AND EXTEMPORE Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya

Documents

GNIPST Bulletin 52.4