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GNIPST BULLETIN VOLUME - 9; ISSUE - 3
VISION
TO GROW AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN THE FIELD OF
PHARMACEUTICAL & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Content
• Message from GNIPST • Campus News • News Update • Disease outbreak news • Forthcoming Events • Drugs Update • Students’ Section • Editor’s Note • Photo Gallery
2012
For your comments/contribution
OR For back Issues,
mail to: [email protected]
EDITOR: Ms PRERONA SAHA GURU NANAK INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 20/01/2012
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Message FROM gNIPsT….
The staffs & students of Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science
& Technology are proud to publish the 9th Volume of “GNIPST
BULLETIN”. We hope that this bulletin will enrich the knowledge of
the students and the practitioners of pharmaceutical and biological
science equally. We aspire to give the latest information regarding the
profession of the health care system to the people which will definitely
be of great help to increase the knowledge of pharmaceutical healthcare
for not only the professionals but also the common people.
We, the faculty members & the students of Guru Nanak Institute of
Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, look forward to your
cooperation & support to spread the message to all…
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CaMPUs NeWs
• Past Events
All the classes of even semester have been started
from 16th January, 2012.
The ‘Garments’ Donation Camp’ was nicely organized through
Bharat Sevashram Sangha on 27th December, 2011. Mr. Debabrata
Ghosh Dastidar along with other faculty members & interested
students of GNIPST, successfully carried out the distribution of the
clothes among the needy & poor people on that day.
An Industrial Tour was arranged for 4th yr, B. Pharm. students
in the various departments of at Saraka Lab, Aurobinda Pharma
and M.S.N. Lab at Hyderabad (Nov, 2011) under the guidance of
Anshuman Bhattacharya, Abir Koley & Priyanka Roy, Faculty,
GNIPST.
An Industrial Visit was arranged to Fresenius Kabi, W.B. for B.
Pharm. 2nd year students (Jan, 2011).
• Announcement
A Re- Union for GNIPST Pass-out students is going to
be organized very soon (1st Sunday of February, 2012)…
All the interested students are invited to participate into
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the program to make it a memorable one…. For further
detail, one may contact at [email protected]
GNIPST has signed the Memorandum Of Understanding with
VELS UNIVERSITY, Chennai, Tamilnadu, for Students &
Teachers exchange programmes, and Joint Research & Project
works.
GNIPST has signed the Memorandum Of Understanding with
Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management
(EIILM), for Students & Teachers exchange programmes, and Joint
Research & Project works. The program has already started from
15th Dec, 2011.
GNIPST received the full length Approval (from AICTE as well
as WBUT) for M.Pharm. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
• Achievements
Sl No. Name Joined at …..
1. Arghya Roy Chowdhury
Production department of Cipla.
2. Binoy Das Production department of Cipla.
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Sl No. Name Joined at …..
3. Chayan Sen Production department of Cipla.
4. Subhagata Biswas Marketing division of Walter Bushnell
5. Payel Ghosh Chowdhury
Marketing division of Walter Bushnell
6. Debashis Patra Marketing division of Zydas Pharma.
7. Sudipta Roy Marketing division of Ranbaxy
Laboratories.
8. Arnab Saha Chowdhury
Klar Sehen Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd
9. Avik Roy
Chowdhury Marketing division of Braun Biotech
10. Rahul Dev Mondal Clinical Research Department
(Clinical Trial) of PG Hospital.
11. Susmita Dey Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
12. Susmita Bar Micro Labs Ltd
13. Supit Biswas Twilight Litaka Pharma Ltd.
14. Atanu Bhore Production department of Mefro
Pharmaceuticals.
15. Ratul Dhara Production department of Mefro
Pharmaceuticals.
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Sl No. Name Joined at …..
16. Sagnik Bhattacharya Marketing division of Raika
Pharmaceuticals
17. Aritra Chatterjee
Marketing division of
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical
Ltd.
18. Amit Chakraborty Marketing division of Franco Indian
Pharmaceutical Pvt Ltd.
19. Akhilesh Kumar Quality Control Dept. in Cipla in
Sikkim
20. Anamika
Bhattacharya QA/QC department of Group
Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Bangalore
21. Malyashree Ghosh Business executive in Wockhardt
• Opportunity
Fresh Pharma Graduates interested to work as Medical Editor in
Cactus Global… can send their CVs to [email protected]
Columbia Asia hospitals require Pharmacists - 2 openings for
D-Pharm or B-Pharm.. Candidates with Computer Knowledge,
Good communication skills & willing to work in shifts, preferably
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having 1-2 yr experience may apply for the post of Pharmacist for
Pharma, Biotech or Clinical Research division. Interested ones can
send their CVs to: [email protected]
Some vacancies have been opened in Cipla, in the marketing
division. Interested candidates, having at least 2-3 months
experience, can contact Mr. Anshuman Bhattacharya, in this
regard...
Some vacancies have been opened in General division of
Marketing department in Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals (North Kolkata
zone). Interested candidates must contact Mr. Anshuman
Bhattacharya immediately (within two days).
• Kudos
Saswati Bhattacharya, Pompa Dey and Ayan Giri, pass-out (2010)
B.Pharm. students from GNIPST have qualified GPAT, 2011.
Shreyasi Chakraborty, Somshuvra Bhattacharya and Ms. Sudeshna
Saha have qualified GPAT, 2011.
Somsubhra Bhattacharya, 4th year, B.Pharm. student was awarded
scholarship from IPA Healthcare & Pharma Trust.
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NeWs UPDaTe
Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India… Discovery
of a deadly form of TB highlights crisis of
'mismanagement'. Physicians in India have identified a
form of incurable tuberculosis there, raising further
concerns over increasing drug resistance to the disease1.
Although reports call this latest form a “new entity”,
researchers suggest that it is instead another
development in a long-standing problem. The discovery
makes India the third country in which a completely
drug-resistant form of the disease has emerged,
following cases documented in Italy in 2007 and Iran in
2009.
For details, visit: “Totally drug-resistant TB emerges in India” by Katherine Rowland in Nature, Jan 13, 2012. doi:10.1038/nature.2012.9797
DRDO institute looks for pharma firms to
commercialise 30 new drugs and devices… Institute of
Nuclear Medicines and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a
premier life sciences laboratory under the Defence
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Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is
looking for industry partners for further streamlining of
30 drugs and health products that it has developed.
For details, visit: www.pharmabiz.com (Jan 16, 2012)
NPPA UNDER HEALTH MINISTRY… For making
available quality drugs at reasonable prices, there is a
centrally administered by National Pharmaceutical Pricing
Authority (NPPA) of the Union chemicals ministry. NPPA
has so far failed to achieve this objective on account of
various reasons. The Centre has been exploring the
possibilities of bringing about a mechanism by which
quality essential drugs are made available at low prices.
Currently, the NPPA under the chemicals ministry is the
regulatory agency to control the prices while the CDSCO
under the health department is looking after the drug
approvals. This has prompted Cabinet secretariat to think
in terms of bringing an effective coordination between
different departments. Of late, Planning Commission has
recommended that National Pharmaceuticals Pricing
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Authority be placed under the Union ministry of health.
However, the proposal may not be easily acceptable to the
chemicals ministry. For details, visit: www.pharmabiz.com (Jan 11, 2012)
Abbott and Indian Thyroid Society set to double screening to detect disorders…
CDSCO issues draft guidelines on requirement of chemical & pharmaceutical information before approval of trials/BE studies…
Ensemble advances Macrocycle IL-17 antagonist programme… For details, visit: Vol.9; Issue.2
Monkey vaccine hints at how to stop HIV… Failed herpes vaccine puzzles virologists… DBT-ICMR to begin collaborative programme on 'HIV/AIDS
and Microbicides' to promote HIV/AIDS research… For details, visit: Vol.9; Issue.1
DIsease OUTbReak NeWs
Avian influenza in Cambodia… The Ministry of Health
(MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia has announced a
confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza
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A (H5N1) virus. The National and local Rapid Response
Teams (RRT) are conducting outbreak investigation and
response following the national protocol. Hospital staff
who had contact with the case have been offered
oseltamivir.
For further detail, visit: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011 (Jan 16,
2012).
Avian influenza in China…
Of the 41 cases confirmed to date in China, 27
have been fatal. For further detail, visit: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011 (Jan 5, 2012)
Yellow Fever in Senegal… For further detail, visit: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011 (Dec 01, 2011)
Influenza like illness in the United States of America… For further detail, visit: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011 (Nov 24, 2011)
FORThCOMINg eveNTs
A National Seminar on “Emerging Trends in Drug
Targetting” will be organized on 11th February, 2012 by
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School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha-O-
Anusandhan University, Odisha.
For details, visit: www.spsiter.ac.in
The FIP Centennial Congress will be held on 3-8 October, 2012
at Amsterdam.
Indian Pharmaceutical Association Convention – 2012 will be
organized on 17th & 18th March, 2012 at Manipal College of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal on the
theme: “Excellence in Pharma Profession”.
3rd World Congress on Bioavailability & Bioequivalence by
OMICS Group will be held on 26-28th March, 2012 at Marriott
Convention Center, Hyderabad, India.
National Seminar on “Clinical & Molecular Approaches for
Drug Discovery” will be organized by JSS College of Pharmacy,
JSS University, Ootacamund, Tamilnadu on March 2-3, 2012.
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
(NIPER) will organise 3-day international symposium on “Drug
Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK)” in collaboration
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with Bristol Myers Squibb… from February 17-19, 2012 at the
NIPER premises.
For details visit: www.pharmabiz.com (Dec 23, 2011)
13th International Society of Ethnopharmacology (ISE) in
India will be held at Kolkata at Jadavpur University, in
February 17-19, 2012.
For details, see: Vol.3; Issue.1 and/or visit: www.ise-snpsju.org
Pre-conference Workshop on “Publishing your Research in
Impact Journal” will be held on 17th Feb, 2012 at Jadavpur
University.
For details, visit: www.ise-snpsju.org
DRUgs UPDaTes
FDA approves Voraxaze to treat patients with toxic
methotrexate levels… USFDA approved Voraxaze
(glucarpidase) to treat patients with toxic levels of
methotrexate in their blood due to kidney failure.
Methotrexate is a commonly used cancer chemotherapy
drug normally eliminated from the body by the kidneys.
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However, patients receiving high doses of methotrexate
may develop kidney failure. Voraxaze is an enzyme that
rapidly reduces methotrexate levels by breaking the
chemotherapy drug down to a form that can be
eliminated from the body. Voraxaze is administered
directly into a patient’s vein (intravenously).
For details, visit: www.usfda.com (Jan 17, 2012)
FDA expands use of endovascular graft to treat
aortic tears… USFDA expanded the approved usage for
an endovascular graft manufactured by W.L. Gore and
Associates Inc. to include treatment of life-threatening
tears or ruptures of the aorta (thoracic aortic
transection).
For details, visit: www.usfda.com (Jan 13, 2012)
USFDA to protect important class of antimicrobial drugs
for treating human illness …
For details, visit: www.usfda.com (Jan 4, 2012)
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FDA expands use of HIV drug Isentress (raltegravir) to
children and adolescents…
For details, visit: www.usfda.com (Dec 21, 2011)
sTUDeNTs’ seCTION
WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST??????????
(A) Kasida embroidery is associated with which Indian State?
(B) Which is the oldest working steam locomotive in the world?
Look back to 2011…
• Whom, do you think, we’ve lost mostly in the year 2011?
a) Suchitra Mitra b) Steve Jobs
c) M. Fida Husain d) Jagjit Singh
e) Bhimsen Joshi f) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi,
g) Bhupen Hazarika, h) Shammi Kapoor,
i) Dev Anand.
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o Answer of Previous Issue Q: WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST?
A) Magnesium, B) Google. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Send your Quiz/Puzzles/games/thoughts or any other contributions for Students’ Section & answers
of this Section at [email protected]
eDITOR’s NOTe
I feel happy in publishing the 9th Volume of the online issue of this bulletin. I would like to convey my thanks to all of my colleagues & students for their encouragement & supports. Special thanks to Mr. Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar for his technical help. I would like to extend my thanks to Soumya Bhattacharya, Faculty, GNIPST for the continuous contribution to Students’Section.
It would be my great pleasure to receive the contributions, suggestions & feedback from your desk for further upliftment of this deliberation “GNIPST BULLETIN”…
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