GNIPST BULLETIN 2016

25-03-2016

25th March, 2016

Volume No.: 54 Issue No.: 01

Vision

TO REACH THE PINNACLE OF GLORY AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN THE

FIELD OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BY KNOWLEDGE
BASED LEARNING AND PRACTICE

Contents

Message from PRINCIPAL

Editorial board
Historical article
News Update
Knowledge based Article
Disease Related Breaking
News
Upcoming Events
Drugs Update
Campus News
Students Section
Editors Note
Archive

GNIPST Photo Gallery

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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 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 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
EDITOR
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

DR. ABHIJIT SENGUPTA

MS. JEENATARA BEGUM
MR. DIPANJAN MANDAL

HISTORICAL ARTICLE

Jane Marcet
(1769-1858)
Jane Marcet was a science writer, but that alone doesnt qualify her
as a famous scientist.
In fact, Jane Marcet was the first female science writer ever,
writingConversations on Chemistry in 1806.
Yet that still does not qualify her as a famous scientist, even though
she wrote her book for girls in a time when education for girls was
viewed as unimportant.
No, the reason she is famous is that she wrote her chemistry book
in a way thatanyone with little formal education could understand,
and it became thestandard text in chemistry education.
In Jane Marcets time, science was a field inhabited by wealthy
people. It was very difficult for poorer people to get enough
education to become scientists.
But one poor boy, born in 1791, whose father had worked as a
blacksmith, did it.
The boy started work as an apprentice bookbinder aged 13, and
went on to become one of the worlds greatest scientists,
revolutionizing both physics and chemistry.
MICHAEL FARADAY, 1791 1867
Chemist and Physicist
Jane Marcets book Conversations on Chemistry was so good, many
schools in Great Britain started using it.
It made its way to the United States, where Thomas Jeffersons
papers show that he bought a copy of it in 1809.
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It became a standard textbook for girls education in America and

was translated into both French and German.
Amazingly, Jane Marcet was not a chemist and had received no
formal training in chemistry. So, how did she come to write such
an influential book?
The Making of Jane Marcet
Jane Marcet (pronounced marset, not market) was born in London
on the very first day of the year 1769. She was the daughter of the
wealthy Swiss banker Anthony Francis Haldiman and his wife
Jane. She was home-schooled. In 1799 she married Alexander
Marcet, a Swiss medical doctor. The couple lived in London.
Alexander, who was interested in chemistry, became a Fellow of
the Royal Society and had a home-laboratory built.
Increasingly, Jane became as interested in chemistry as her
husband. She began attending lectures at the Royal Institution
given by eminent chemists such as Humphry Davy. She found
these lectures confusing. Why was this? she wondered.
Discussing the lectures with other attendees, she realized she was
not alone in her confusion. She performed experiments at home
and was able share her thoughts with her husband, who had been
formally educated in chemistry and understood her difficulties.
Mrs Marcet decided to learn enough to write about chemistry in
such a way thateveryone who wanted to understand the
subject could understand it.
In 1806, aged 37, she published Conversations on Chemistry, Intended
More Especially for the Female Sex.
In all the book was published in 16 editions spanning 1806 and
1853. Mrs Marcet was 84 years old when she released her final
edition of the book.
By 1833 events had come spectacularly full-circle. Michael
Faradays work was featured in that years edition of Conversations
on Chemistry. The boy who had been inspired by the book now had his
work featured in the book.

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Ultimately the influence of Jane Marcet on science was enormous.

She made it a subject that girls could consider pursuing, and she
made it a subject that people who were not wealthy and who had
only a few years of schooling could get to grips with. In doing so
she inspired one of the greatest scientists in history and enabled
him to learn enough about chemistry to start a scientific career.

NEWS UPDATE

One atom can make a difference: Hydrogenbonding pairing helps design better drugs to
neutralize gut: (25th March, 2016)
Hydrogen-bonding pairing regulates protein-ligand affinity; helps
improve drug design.

Simple solutions for overweight kids to lose

weight as the weather warms up: (25th March,
2016)
Obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in
adolescents in the past 30 years nationwide. One expert says that
the most effective approach to addressing weight loss in children
are lifestyle-based modifications that involve parents.

During unfavorable conditions, the cytoplasm can

solidify, protect the cell from death: (25th
March, 2016)

Normally, cells are highly active and dynamic: in their liquid

interior, called the cytoplasm, countless metabolic processes occur
in parallel, proteins and particles jiggle around wildly. If, however,
those cells do not get enough nutrients, their energy level drops.
During such unfavorable conditions, the cytoplasm can solidify
and protect the cell from death, new research shows.

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Self-repairing cancer cells future of cancer

treatments: (24th March, 2016)

A research group has been studying cancer cells' ability to migrate

through to tight spaces and self-repair to develop both treatment
and diagnostic solutions for the millions of people who deal with
cancer every day.

Study examines patients' willingness to pay to

fix facial deformities: (24th March, 2016)

How much would you be willing to pay to fix a facial defect? A

new study has examined that question, and found that observers
placed a premium on repairing large and central facial defects and
were willing to pay less to repair small and peripheral facial
defects.

Economic analysis of PSA screening, selective

treatment strategies: (24th March, 2016)

Can prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer

be cost-effective? A study, commentary and author interview
examine that question.

Prenatal steroids reduce risk of brain bleeding in

preemies, Stanford study finds: (24th March,
2016)

Prenatal steroid treatment reduces by half a premature baby's risk

for a severe form of brain hemorrhage after birth, a study has
found. The research, on nearly 26,000 premature infants,
demonstrated that the benefit applies even to the earliest born
preemies, who can be overlooked as potential candidates for this
steroid treatment.

Increased vitamin C in the diet could help

protect against cataracts: (23rd March, 2016)

Higher dietary intake of vitamin C has been found to have a

potentially preventative effect on cataract progression in the first
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twin study of cataracts to examine to what degree genetic and

environmental factors influence their progression with age.

Ahead of many Western nations, African

country close to meeting new UNAIDS testing
and treatment targets: (23rd March, 2016)

Botswana appears to have achieved very high rates of HIV

diagnosis, treatment, and viral suppression -- much better than
most Western nations, including the United States -- according to
a new study.

New imaging scans track down persistent cancer

cells: (23rd March, 2016)

Head and neck cancer patients may no longer have to undergo

invasive post-treatment surgery to remove remaining cancer cells,
as research shows that innovative scanning-led surveillance can
help identify the need for, and guidance of, neck dissection.
For detail mail to editor

KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

New method of viewing TB bacteria

TB is generally a curable disease -- but first it must be diagnosed,

and that has been one of the biggest barriers in its elimination. M.
tuberculosis grows very slowly, so traditional methods of
diagnostic testing take a very long time. A team from the Texas
A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine has been
working on a new approach. The work is led by Jeffrey Cirillo,
Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
and Immunology.
Cirillo's previous research, which has been supported by the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, has
focused on developing a rapid yet inexpensive test for tuberculosis.
He and his team have nearly perfected the technology and are in
the process of bringing the test to market.
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The slow growth of M. tuberculosis also makes development of

new therapeutics difficult because it takes so long to determine if
the treatment is working.
Now, Cirillo and his team have developed a method, which they
reported recently in the journal PLoS ONE, of detecting whether a
potential treatment is working as early as a day after it is given.
"Since M. tuberculosis takes about a month to quantify using
traditional approaches, any method that allows direct
determination of the amount of bacteria present is very valuable
and speeds progress, saving months every time an experiment is
done," Cirillo said. "Our methods allow this."
Using optical imaging technology, the researchers can observe the
bacteria in real time, in living animals, without harming them. This
way, it is easy to determine if a proposed treatment is working and
the number of bacteria is decreasing.
"There have never been sensitive enough systems to measure the
bacteria directly in animals," Cirillo said. "This is a completely new
technology and has nearly limitless applications to microbiological
research, particularly in animals, but it increases sensitivity in any
experimental system."
Drug-resistant TB, now present everywhere in the world, is
hampering efforts to fight the disease because the usual drugs used
to treat it are no longer effective. Therefore, new, more effective
treatments need to be developed.
The researchers first had to find the best fluorescent protein to
help them visualize the bacteria.
"We use very sensitive systems that can actually see the signal
through mammalian tissue," Cirillo said. "This works best in the
near-infrared, which is where our signals are primarily produced."
Active TB causes symptoms such as cough, fever, night sweats,
weight loss. If left untreated -- a common scenario in developing
countries lacking health care infrastructure -- a person with active
TB has only a 50 percent chance of survival, and he or she will
infect an average of 10 to 15 people each year.
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"The goal in TB research is complete eradication of the disease,"

Cirillo said. "We think this new technology is one tool to do just
that."
Jeenatara Begum
Assistant Professor
GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS

Lassa Fever Germany: (23rd March, 2016)

Between 10 and 16 March 2016, the National IHR Focal Point for
Germany notified WHO/EURO of 2 cases of Lassa fever.
Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

12th International Conference of the Asian Clinical Oncology

Society at New Delhi, India will be held on 8th to 10th April, 2016.

DRUGS UPDATES

FDA Approves Taltz (ixekizumab) for Plaque

Psoriasis: (22nd March, 2016)
The
U.S.
Food
and
Drug
Administration
today
approved Taltz (ixekizumab) to treat adults with moderate-tosevere plaque psoriasis.
Read more

CAMPUS NEWS
JOBS 2016:

Dr. Lal Path Lab:

On 22nd March 2016 Dr. Lal Path Lab conducted interview at
GNIPST.
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The name of selected students for the post of Sales Trainee are:
1. Atri Pain Majumder
2. Chandrika Saha
3. Maitreyee Banerjee
4. Md. Nadeem Shah
5. Nilotpal Gorai
6. Smaranjeet Banik
7. Sreejita Roy
GPAT 2016 Result:
The following B.Pharm. final year students have qualified, GPAT2016. We congratulate them all.
Aishika Datta
Mainak Chatterjee
Indira Saha
Priyanka De
Aheli Mukherjee
Soumya Guha
Debanjana Das
Debalina Datta
Evana Patra
Himadrija Chatterjee
IRIS 2016:
GNIPST organized colllege fest IRIS 2016 from 11th to 13th March,
2016.
Result of different events:
Intracollege Quiz competition:
1st: Arani Roy and Dipayan Nath
2nd: Bhaskar Singha and Pratik Nandi
Intracollege Painting competition:
1st: Swagata Paul
2nd: Aviraj Pathak
3rd: Dippyoman Guha
Group Dance Competition:
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Karma Group
Intercollege Solo Dance Competition:
1st : Monodipa Ghosh
2nd: Aditya Paul (NIT)
Antaksari Competition:
1st: Sunanda and Aparupa
2nd: Meghna and Joyita
3rd: Arpita and Pami
Intercollege Solo Singing Competition:
1st: Arpita Sarkar
2nd: Arvind Raj (Sudhir Chandra College)
3rd: Priyam Mondal (Supreme College)
Intercollege Band Competition:
1st: D Errors
2nd: Mukti
3rd: GNIPST band
Fashion:
Best Male: Md. Nadeem Shah
Best Female: Sweta
Best Couple: Md. Nadeem Shah and Susmita Kar
Blood donation Camp 2016:
On 4th March 2016 Social Service club and Alumni Association
of GNIPST organized a Blood donation camp in association with
Association of voluntary Blood Donars, West Bengal.
Reminiscence & 1st Alumni meet 2016:
On 28th February 2016 GNIPST organized the Reunion programme
Reminiscence & 1st Alumni meet 2016.

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National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC):

A NAAC peer team completed a three-day inspection (17th
February to 19th February, 2016) of GNIPST to evaluate its
academic credibility and infrastructure on Friday.
Saraswati Puja 2016:
On 13th February 2016 the students of GNIPST celebrated
Saraswati Puja at GNIPST campus.
GNIPST Cricket 2016 result:
Winner: B.Pharm 4th year
Runners: B.Pharm 2nd year
Man of the match, best wicket taker, best batsman: B.Pharm 4th
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
2nd: Nirmita Gupta
3rd: Sneha Pal
Discuss for Girls:
1st: Manpreet Ghai
2nd: Nirmita Gupta
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3rd: Sneha Pal

Sack race for Girls:
1st: Nirmita Gupta
2nd: Aindrila Bhoumik
3rd: Moutan Roy
Balance race for Girls:
1st: Indira Saha
2nd: Nirmita Gupta
3rd: Aindrila Bhoumik
Relay Race for Girls:
Aindrila Bhoumik
Manpreet Ghai
Anjali Mondal
Joyati Ghosh
Skipping for Girls:
1st: Aindrila Bhoumik
2nd: Anjali Mondal
3rd: Manpreet Ghai
200 meter Flat Race for Girls:
1st: Anjali Mondal
2nd: Moutan Roy
3rd: Nirmita Gupta
Sack race for Boys:
1st: Maruf Billa Akunjee
2nd: Abu Sufian
3rd: Sufian Sk.
100 meter Race for Boys:
1st: Abu Sufian
2nd: Maruf Billa Akunjee
3rd: Arijit Mitra Thakur
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200 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 Kumar
3rd: 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.
On 29th January to 30th January 2016 GNIPST organized the cricket
match.
On 27th January and 28th January 2016 GNIPST organized the
Annual Sports programme.

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From 19th January, 2016 to 28th January, 2016 B.Pharm final year
students 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 12th January, 2016 the students and teachers of GNIPST
celebrated youth day on the occasion of 153rd birth anniversary of
Swami Vivekananda.
A competition on Innovative and Scientific Modelling will be held
in 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 the
posters submission is 11th January, 2016.
A Bulletin committee will be formed and all the committee
members are requested to attend the Bulletin Committee Meeting
on 4th January, 2016.
On 23rd December 2015, a meeting was held in GNIPST for Bulletin
committee formation and Tech-Fest 2016.
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
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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.
Report of National Seminar on Current Innovation in
Biotechnology for Human Welfare:
1. Name of the Institute: Guru Nanak institute of Pharmceutical
Science & Technology
2. 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 for
Human 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-Bharati
University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vidyalaya, National Institute
of Occupational Health ,Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute,
Directorate of Drug Control(WB) etc. were invited for the
presentation 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 three
posters were awarded .
I. First prize winners Poulami Majumdaer, Indrajit Karmakar,
Suchandra Majumder, Pallab kanti halder from Jadavpur
University, Department of Pharmaceutical Science on Evaluation
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of 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, Aparupa
Bhattacharya, Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science &
Technology, Microbial fuel cell and Apurba Mukherjee , Sutapa
Mukherjee, Madhumita Roy, Chittaranjan National Cancer
Institute , The common Indian spice curcumin act as an enhancer
of 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 pre
Kalipuja 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 in
Intracollege Football Tournament.
Intracollege Football Tournament:
On 9th October and 10th October, 2015 GNIPST has organized the
Intracollege Football Tournament.
EN BIOLET:
On 5th and 6th October, 2015 seminar was held on EN-BIOLET by
Stone India Ltd.
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INDOOR BATTLE 2015

On 24th September, 2015 GNIPST organised the Indoor games

(Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess for both Boys and Girls) Indoor
Battle 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, 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)
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SAGAR DUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE FEST-ASTERICA 2015

WINNER:
The students of GNIPST stood first in the FASHION SHOW
competition of Sagar Dutta Medical College Fest:
Congratulation to the participantsSouvik 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.

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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.
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.
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.
st
On 21 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.
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.

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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: 27.03.2015
Time: 09:45 am
Venue : GSK Consumer Healthcare Limited, Unit No. 208,
nd
2 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.
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STUDENTS SECTION
WHO CAN ANS WER FIRS T????

What is Triskaidekaphobia
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EDITORS NOTE
It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 1st issue of 54th 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.

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ARCHIVE
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 was
delivered some motivational lectuers in GNIPST.
The students of GNIPST participated in the 4th Sardar Jodh
th
SinghTrophy organised by NIT on 20 February, 2015.
On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the Reunion
programmeReminiscence Reloaded 2015.
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 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.
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
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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
SPORTS
LITERARY AND PAINTING
SCIENCE AND INNOVATIVE
MODELLING
ECO
SOCIAL SERVICES
PHOTOGRAPHY
CULTURAL
DEBATE AND EXTEMPORE

Member Faculty
Mr. Debabrata GhoshDastidar
Ms. Jeenatara Begum
Mr. Samrat Bose
Ms. Sumana Roy
Dr. Asis Bala
Ms. Sanchari Bhattacharya
Ms. Priyanka Ray
Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya

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