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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 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 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 SENGUPTA

EDITOR MS. JEENATARA BEGUM

ASSOCIATE EDITOR MR. DIPANJAN MANDAL

HISTORICAL ARTICLE

Chen-Ning Yang

Early Life and Education

Chen-Ning Franklin Yang was born on October 1, 1922, in the cityof Hefei, China.

His family moved to Beijing when he was young after his father,Wu-Chih, became a Professor of Mathematics at TsinghuaUniversity. His mother, Meng-hua was a housewife.Yang was schooled in Beijing until 1937, when the Japaneseinvasion of China forced his family to return to Hefei, and then, ayear later, move to the city of Kunming. The Japanese Army did notreach Kunming in the south-west of China, although it wasbombed by the Japanese Air Force.Yang enrolled at the National Southwestern Associated Universityin Kunming and was awarded a bachelor’s degree in physics in1942.In 1944 he was awarded a master’s degree in physics for his workin statistical mechanics. He was awarded his degree by Beijing’sTsinghua University, which had relocated to Kunming.Yang worked as a teacher until he won a United Statesgovernment scholarship in 1946, which took him to the Universityof Chicago. There his doctoral advisor was Edward Teller, the

father of the hydrogen bomb.In 1948 Yang was awarded a Ph.D. in physics for his work onnuclear reactions.


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Chen-Ning Yang’s Research Work

After the award of his Ph.D., Yang stayed at Chicago for a year,working with one of the giants of 20th century physics, EnricoFermi.

In 1949 he was invited to become a theoretical physics researcherat the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.The Institute had been founded in 1930 with the goal of employingthe best mathematicians and physicists in the world; AlbertEinsteinwas there from 1933 until his death in 1955.Parity Conservation

Atom Smashing During the 1950s, increasingly complex results had been coming

out of particle accelerators and cosmic ray detectors, causingincreasing confusion among physicists.The accelerators were pushing ions and particles to enormousspeeds, then smashing them into one another. Physicists hoped thedebris from the collisions would reveal more about what matter isand how it behaves.Cosmic rays – high energy particles reaching Earth from the sunand the stars – also produced interesting debris.

The debris from both accelerators and cosmic rays containssubatomic particles, which are generally unstable, quicklydecaying into other particles.The Meson Problem Two unstable particles, the theta-meson and the tau-meson, werecausing a lot of heads to be scratched.In some senses, the theta-meson and the tau-meson looked as if theymight be the same particle: their masses and the average time theytook to decay into other particles seemed to be the same. The theta-meson and the tau-mesonboth decayed into pi-mesons, usually knownas pions.BUT, the theta decayed to produce two pions, while the tau decayedto produce three pions.


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Most physicists took it as a fundamental law of the universe thatwhen any particle decayed, its parity stayed the same.Parity must never be broken: this meant, in a very simplified way,that the same particle could not possibly decay sometimes into

two pions, and at other times into three pions. Physicists believedthere was a fundamental symmetry in the universe. If parity werebroken, the fundamental symmetry they believed in would also bebroken.Physicists regarded parity as a property that was conserved in thesame way that energy, momentum, and electric charge are alwaysconserved.Yet the only difference physicists could find between the theta-

meson and the tau-meson was that they decayed differently.Otherwise these mesons seemed identical.Yang-Mills Theory

Prior to his Nobel Prize winning work, Yang studied thefundamental forces in particle physics and how they relate to oneanother.The first unification of forces in physics had happened in the 19thcentury, when James Clerk Maxwell unified the electric and

magnetic forces; he showed they were actually manifestations of asingle force: the electromagnetic force. In doing so, Maxwellestablished that light is an electromagnetic wave which carriesenergy between electric charges.Maxwell’s work shook physics to its core.Ever since Maxwell set the ball rolling, physicists have dreamed ofuniting all of the forces of nature into one fundamental theory: atheory of everything .In 1954 Yang was doing some work at Brookhaven NationalLaboratory, where he shared an office with Robert Mills, anotheryoung physicist.Bouncing ideas off one another, they developed a newgeneralization of Maxwell’s equations, now called Yang-Millstheory.


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The theory produces Maxwell’s equations as a special case. Inaddition to explaining electromagnetic forces, Yang-Mills theoryalso explains interactions between nuclear particles – in doing so,it carries physics closer to a theory of everything .

Yang-Mills theory now lies at the heart of the Standard Model ofparticle physics. The Standard Model tries to tie together theelectromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force, the strong nuclearforce, and all of the subatomic particles into a single consistentsystem – a theory of everything.Yang–Mills theory is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problemsin mathematics. Anyone solving a Millennium Prize Problem willbe awarded $1 million.

The Yang-Mills millennium problem asks scientists to rigorouslyestablish quantum Yang-Mills theory and to solve a further Yang-Mills issue known as the mass gap.Today, more than fifty years after it was born, Yang–Mills theory isa very active research field in physics.Other Information

Yang was married to Chi-Li Tu from 1950 until she died in 2003.He has three children from this marriage. In 2004, he married

Weng Fan.Although he has been an American citizen since 1964, he now livesin China, where he is an honorary director of Tsinghua University,Beijing – his father’s old university, and the university where hestudied for his master’s degree.


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NEWS UPDATE

Immunotherapy breakthrough now approved as

standard of care for advanced melanoma: (18th

December, 2015)A first-of-its-kind (anti-PD-1) immunotherapy was recentlyapproved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration as first-linetreatment for metastatic melanoma—allowing greater access tothis therapy for patients without having to previously receiveother prior treatments.

Magnesium intake may be beneficial in preventing

pancreatic cancer: (18th

December, 2015)Researchers have found that magnesium intake may be beneficialin preventing pancreatic cancer. Using information from theVITamins and Lifestyle study, the study analyzed data on morethan 66,000 men and women, between the ages of 50 and 76,looking at the direct association between magnesium andpancreatic cancer.

PTSD resources lacking for nonveterans: (18th

December, 2015)Researchers report that information and resources regardingeffective therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder are not easilyavailable for nonveterans, who can be affected by the conditionafter crimes, disasters, and accidents. They offer recommendationsfor improvement.

Surfing DNA: Enzyme catches a ride to fight

infection: (18th December, 2015)An enzyme crucial to keeping our immune system healthy “surfs”along the strands of DNA inside our cells, scientists have shownfor the first time. The researchers used extremely powerfulmicroscopy to watch how the enzyme AID (activation-induced


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deoxycytidine deaminase) moves around and interacts with othermolecules.

Childhood concussions impair brain function: (18th

December, 2015)Pre-adolescent children who have sustained sports-relatedconcussions have impaired brain function two years followinginjury, new research indicates. Over a million brain injuries aretreated annually in the U.S. While organized sports at all levelshave implemented safety protocols for preventing and treatinghead injuries, most pediatric concussions still result from athleticactivities.

Candy games stimulate appetite: (18

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December, 2015)At least once a week, two thirds of all children of primary-schoolage will play an internet game that was created to draw attentionto a brand. Most of these advertisements are for snacks and candy.Only 6% of these children are aware that such advergames areadvertisements. In the meantime, such games do affect theirbehavior, research shows.

Brain imaging technology offers new approachfor studying Parkinsonian syndromes: (18th

December, 2015) Using a portable device, researchers have identified differences inbrain activation patterns associated with postural stability inpeople with Parkinsonian syndromes and healthy adults. Thefindings describe the critical role of the prefrontal cortex inbalance control and may have implications with respect todetecting and treating Parkinsonian symptoms in the elderly.

Why smoking bans may have advantage over

higher tobacco taxes: (17th December, 2015)If governments want to discourage smoking among young people,both high taxes and smoking bans do the job – but bans may have


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one key advantage, say researchers. A first-of-its-kind Americanstudy found that bans worked best at limiting smoking amongmore casual users: Those who smoked less than a pack a day.Heavy taxes worked best with those who smoked more than a

pack a day. Unexpected molecular partners may offer new

way to counter inflammatory diseases: (16th

December, 2015)When overactive or off target, certain cells in the immune systemthat normally fight infection instead attack a person's own tissue.This process fuels inflammation as part of autoimmune diseases.

Now, a study has revealed a new way to curtail these mechanismsthat could shape the design of future drugs.

New 'condensed' grading system shown accurate

for predicting prostate cancer outcomes: (16th

December, 2015)Using information gleaned from more than 20,000 men,researchers have affirmed the value of their alternative system for

assessing the likelihood of growth and spread of prostate cancer.The new grading system, they say, is not only easier to use andunderstand, but also more accurate than the long-used Gleasongrading system, and it has the potential to substantially reduceovertreatment of low-risk tumors.

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KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

Viral infections leave a signature on human

immune systemWhen pathogens infect the cells of the body, the infection sets off achain reaction involving the immune system that changes the


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expression of hundreds of genes. Gene expression is the process bywhich cells extract information from the genes and render it asmolecules of protein or RNA. Cells have the capacity to expressmore or less of each molecule, creating a pattern of expression that

changes in response to external influences -- including infection byviruses.Purvesh Khatri, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, and a team ofsix other researchers at Stanford identified 396 human geneswhose expression changes in a consistent pattern that reveals thepresence of a viral infection. The pattern of changes, which theycall the meta-virus signature, occurs in a range of viruses and isdistinct from the pattern of gene expression in healthy people or in

people with bacterial infections. The meta-virus signature patternof gene expression is also present even before a person has clearsymptoms of infection.In their paper, to be published Dec. 15 in Immunity, the authors alsodescribed a second gene expression pattern that signals when aperson is infected specifically with the flu virus. This secondpattern, the influenza meta-signature, consists of a change in theexpression of just 11 human genes. The influenza meta-signaturepattern can distinguish flu from other viral infections, as well asfrom bacterial infections. It can also identify a flu infection before aperson has symptoms and even reveal whether a person is buildingimmunity after getting the flu vaccine.Khatri, a bioinformatician, is the senior author of the paper. Leadauthorship is shared by doctoral student Marta Andres-Terre andformer postdoctoral scholar Helen McGuire, PhD.Khatri said his team was motivated by the long-term goal offinding broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, much like the broad-

spectrum antibiotics that have saved so many people from deadlybacterial infections. Broad-spectrum antivirals could be usedagainst dengue fever and other killers, he said.Waving a red 'infection' flag The researchers' first step was to look for a general change in geneexpression in response to infection by viruses generally. They


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began by looking at changes in gene expression in a set of publiclyavailable data. In blood samples from 205 people infected with aflu, cold or respiratory syncytial virus, the team found 396 geneswhose expression changed in the same way during all three types

of infections, with an increase in the expression of 161 genes and adecrease in the expression of 235 genes.The team then found the same pattern in a larger group of bloodand tissue cell samples from 2,939 people consisting of healthycontrols and those infected with a diverse array of pathogens,including viruses such as SARS coronavirus, enterovirus andadenovirus, as well as bacteria such as Escherichia coli,Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and

Salmonella. In the larger group, the team found the same alteredpattern of expression in the same 396 genes among patients withviral infections.The meta-virus signature not only identified individuals with anactive viral infection, but also those who were incubating one. Bystudying blood samples taken frequently -- every eight hours forfive days -- the Stanford team discovered the meta-virus signaturepattern waving a red "infection" flag up to 24 hours before the firstsymptoms. "An individual's gene expression signature changed

before they became sick, so we could predict up to 24 hours beforewho was going to show symptoms," said Khatri.The same high-frequency sampling data also revealed that themeta-virus signature signal, the one indicating any virus, beganfirst. Then, a few hours later, the more-specific influenza meta-signature signal began in people with the flu. "It seems that whenthere is a viral infection, the immune system turns on a generalresponse to all viruses, followed by a virus-specific response to the

particular virus," said Khatri. "You can imagine a decision treewhere the immune system asks, 'Is it bacterial or viral?' And if it'sviral it turns on the meta-virus signature response. And then itasks, 'If it's viral, which virus is it?' And then it turns on aspecialized response for that virus."


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Theoretically, the meta-virus signature could be used clinically todistinguish viral from bacterial infections to determine if anantibiotic should be prescribed. The Khatri lab has funding todevelop such a test.

The team's work is an example of Stanford Medicine's focus onprecision health, the goal of which is to anticipate and preventdisease in the healthy and precisely diagnose and treat disease inthe ill.Is the vaccine working? The work can also help determine whether someone is respondingto vaccination. "The goal of vaccination is to generate the sameimmune response without the symptoms," he said. "If the IMS

response is truly virus-specific, we should see the same response invaccination." And, in fact, the Khatri team found that in threeindependent studies of flu vaccine recipients, all those judged tohave responded to vaccination by other measures also displayedthe 11-gene influenza meta-signature. Likewise, nonrespondentsshowed no influenza meta-signature response. In short, if you seethe gene expression signature, you know the person is respondingto the vaccine.Until now, said Khatri, no one has found the immune response

that turns on in both the vaccination response and in actualinfections. This paper demonstrates for the first time a"transcriptional signature" that can be used as a proxy for whateverimmune mechanism is induced by both vaccination and infection."We have identified the common signature that links infection andvaccination," he said.The work on the vaccination response also added to theunderstanding of men's immune response, which is different from

women's. Other research has suggested that men's immuneresponse to vaccines was somehow suppressed. In previous work,researchers looked at men's and women's responses on the thirdday after vaccination, when women had a strong reaction and menhad none. But Khatri's group found that men were respondingmost on the first day after vaccination. In other words, men were


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responding to flu vaccine sooner than women. By the third day,men's immune response returned to baseline. "The dynamics aredifferent," he said, "and we haven't been sampling at the righttime."

The Stanford paper also looked at samples from patients withacute pneumonia. In these patients, the influenza meta-signaturedistinguished viral pneumonia from bacterial pneumonia. Aspatients recovered, their influenza meta-signatures graduallyreturned to a healthy baseline level.

Jeenatara BegumAssistant Professor

GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS

Human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9)

virus – China: (17th December, 2015)On 11 December 2015, the National Health and Family PlanningCommission (NHFPC) of China notified WHO of 2 additionallaboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian

influenza A (H7N9) virus. Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

National Seminar on “Drug and diseases: role of pharmacists anddoctors” is going to be organized jointly by the Centre for AdvanceResearch in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of

Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and theIndian Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and Technologists,Kolkata on 16th January, 2016 at Dr. H. L. Roy Building, JadavpurUniversity (Kolkata 700 032)’


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DRUGS UPDATES

FDA Approves Basaglar (insulin glargine) for

Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: (16th December,

2015)The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Basaglar

(insulin glargine injection), a long-acting human insulin analog to

improve glycemic control in adult and pediatric patients with type

1 diabetes mellitus and in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Read more

CAMPUS NEWS

Dr. Asis Bala got 1st prize in the Oral presentation conducted by

SFE 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

financial year 2015-16 to GNIPST as per details below

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 SFE

2015.


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Report of National Seminar on “Current Innovation in

Biotechnology for Human Welfare”:

1. Name of the Institute: Guru Nanak institute of Pharmceutical

Science & Technology2. Sanctioning Authority: West Bengal State Council of Science& Technology, Department of Science & Technology, Governmentof 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 “Current

Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare”.

Eminent Speakers from Indian Stastical Institute, Viswa-BharatiUniversity, 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 the

students of different colleges of WestBengal. Total number of 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 JadavpurUniversity, Department of Pharmaceutical Science on “ Evaluationof invitro antidiabetic activity of methanol extract of Curcuma caesia rhizome,

II. Second Prize winners Susmita Dutta, Swati Chakraborty , Guru

Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, “Optimization of biofilm poduction from Pseudomonas sp. and application in antimicrobial and bacteriocin producing activity” ,

III. Third prize winners are jointly from Arindam Ganguly, AparupaBhattacharya, Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science &Technology, “Microbial fuel cell” and Apurba Mukherjee , Sutapa


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Mukherjee, 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 reserch

institutes attended the day long seminar Swarangam:

On 9th November, 2015 GNIPST organized the post puja and preKalipuja celebration programme ‘Swarangam’.

National Science Day 2015:On 7th November 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:

On 9th

October and 10th

October, 2015 GNIPST has organized theIntracollege Football Tournament.

EN BIOLET:On 5th and 6th October, 2015 seminar was held on EN-BIOLET byStone India Ltd.

INDOOR BATTLE 2015On 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])


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2nd : Ratul Banduri (B.Pharm, 3rd year)3rd : Sneham Sen (B.Pharm, 3rd year)Table Tennis (for Girls):1st: Sweta Saha (B.Sc [BT], 3rd year)

2nd : Moutan Roy (B.Pharm, 2nd year)Carrom (for Boys):1st: Sk. Sajjat Ali (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Sk. Abdul Aslam(B.Pharm, 3rd year)2nd : Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Rajib Singha Roy(B.Pharm, 4th year)3rd : Arnab Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2nd year [Pharmaceutics])and Achinta Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2nd year [Pharmaceutics])

Carrom (for Girls):1st: Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year) and Rituparna Das(B.Pharm 4th year)2nd : Rinita DasBhowmik (B.H.M, 1st year) and Tania Datta (B.H.M,1st year)3rd : Sushmita Sen (D.Pharm, 2nd year) and Keya Das (D.Pharm, 2nd year)Chess (for Boys):1st: Sayantan Dutta (B.Pharm, 3rd year)

2nd : Tanmoy Das Biswas (B.Pharm 4th year)3rd : Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm 4th year)Chess (for Girls):1st: Rituparna Das (B.Pharm 4th year)2nd : Suchetana Dutta (B.Pharm 4th year)3rd : Krishnakali Basu (B.Pharm 4th year)

SAGAR DUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE FEST-ASTERICA 2015WINNER:

The students of GNIPST stood first in the FASHION SHOW competition of Sagar Dutta Medical College Fest:Congratulation to the participants-Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2nd year)Riya Taran (B.Pharm 4th year)Moktar Hossain (B.Pharm 4th year)


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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):winnerArpita (B.Sc) :2nd runner up

CARNIVAL OF CANVASS: On 4th September the Students of GNIPST celebrated the freshersparty 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 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 paid

their 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:


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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:Aritra Mukherjee (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)Mounomukhar Bhattacharya (Pharmacology)


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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 GhoshAtanu MondalArka KhamaruRitobroto PaulAbhirup Dasgupta

Fashion:Md. Nadeem Shah

Koustav SarkarShaksar SahaAvirup DasguptaRanit KunduNamrata GangulyShreyasee Mitra


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Chandrika SahaDebopriya ChatterjeeRiya Taran

Innovative Modeling:

Ankit ChowdhuryKartik KoleyMudasar MannaDipan ChaterjeeAbhishek SinghKaustav PalManojit 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 KumariRupanjay BhattacharyaAvik Paul

Xtasy 2015:

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

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 February

to 11

th

April, 2015 at GNIPST Auditorium.On 21st

February, 2015 the Finishing School Training Programme of GNIPST was inaugurated by Sri Soumen Mukhopadhyay, DeputyDirector, 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 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 hisvaluable 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.

JOBS:All the students of Final Year B. Pharm and M. Pharm are herebyinformed that an interview will be conducted on 23rd May, 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,


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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 (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 pooled

campus 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 24th

and 25th

February, 2015 Swamiji of Gourio Math was

delivered some motivational lectuers in GNIPST.The students of GNIPST participated in the 4

th

Sardar JodhSinghTrophy organised by NIT on 20

th

February, 2015.

On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the Reunionprogramme“Reminiscence Reloaded 2015”.

STUDENTS’ SECTION

WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST????

What is Thalassophobia?

Answer of Previous Issue’s Image

Abnormal fear of snake


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Send your thoughts/

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

contributions for Students’ Section answ ers

of this Section at

[email protected]

EDITOR’S NOTE

It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 1st issue of 52

th 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

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 with

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

Products, JU on the skill to write a good manuscript forpublication 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.


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GNIPST is now approved by AICTE and affiliated to WBUT for

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

inPH RM CO LO GY

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 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/- only

d. Approved duration: 3 years

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

medicinal 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 FacultySPORTS Mr. Debabrata GhoshDastidarLITERARY AND PAINTING Ms. Jeenatara BegumSCIENCE AND INNOVATIVEMODELLING

Mr. Samrat Bose

ECO Ms. Sumana Roy

SOCIAL SERVICES Dr. Asis BalaPHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Sanchari BhattacharyaCULTURAL Ms. Priyanka RayDEBATE AND EXTEMPORE Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya

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