GNIPST BULLETIN 2016

29-01-2016

29th January, 2016

Volume No.: 52

Issue No.: 04

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

Rudolf Virchow
1821 1902

Rudolf Virchow was an eminent pathologist and politician, widely

regarded 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 tissues
of the human body. He correctly identified that diseases are caused
by malfunctioning cells.
A man of boundless energy, he simultaneously had four careers:
medical scientist, editor of several medical journals, politician, and
anthropologist. Although he played a tremendous part in ridding
medicine of unscientific practices, he also made some rather large
scientific errors.
Beginnings
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was born on October 13, 1821 in the
town of Schivelbein, in the German Kingdom of Prussia. Today the
town is called Swidwin and lies in Poland.
His father was Carl Christian Siegfried Virchow, a farmer, and town
treasurer of Schivelbein; his mother was Johanna Maria Hesse. The
couple were not especially well-off financially and Rudolf was their
only child. His parents loved the natural world and passed this love
on to their son, taking him on bird watching trips.
Rudolf attended elementary school in Schivelbein. From his earliest
days at school, he seems to have been exceptionally gifted
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intellectually, so much so that his parents paid for extra lessons to

push him forward. From elementary school he progressed to the
Gymnasium (a high school for academically strong students) in
Kslin, about 40 miles from his hometown.
Rudolfs high school curriculum was classical, with heavy emphasis
on Greek and Latin. This was not a problem for Rudolf, who had a
passion and remarkable ability for learning languages. In addition to
Greek and Latin, he also learned Dutch, English, French and Hebrew.
In his spare time between high school and medical school he taught
himself Italian.
He graduated from high school in 1839, aged 17.
Abandoning his original idea of becoming a pastor he didnt think
his voice was strong enough to be an effective preacher he was
awarded a scholarship to study medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms
University in Prussias capital city, Berlin. Completing his course in
1843, he then spent short amounts of time in a number of different
medical jobs.
His passion was pathology the study of diseases.
Politics
in
Brief
A man with incredible energy levels, Virchow reveled in an
important political career in addition to his scientific career. Here
well be concerned mainly with the science. Suffice to say that
Virchows politics were liberal. He promoted better education, better
living conditions, and better health for the poor. These political
beliefs 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 a
sharp-tongue, and his political opponents became wary of his
sarcasm. Virchow was ardently anti-Catholic, believing the Catholic
Churchs 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 to
his first published contribution to science.
Virchow identified and named the disease leukemia and offered the
best description of it available. He named the disease by combining
the Greek wordsleukos (white) and aima (blood). Even in his earliest
work he focused heavily on cells.
Outflanking the journals that blocked publication of his work
In 1847 Virchow started a new job, teaching pathological anatomy at
the University of Berlin. Although he had once believed his voice too
weak to preach, he had now become a supremely self-assured teacher
and researcher.
He was also ambitious, and had grown increasingly frustrated by the
editors of German medical journals. They refused to publish some of
his research papers, and, in Virchows opinion, were hamstrung by
out-of-date ideas about medicine.
In his new teaching job he met Benno Reinhardt, another young
physician who shared his dim view of the medical journals. Virchow
and Reinhardt decided to bypass the journals stuffy editors entirely.
They launched their own journal, Archive for Pathological Anatomy and
Physiology and Clinical Medicine. This new journal insisted all medical
contributions 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, such
as Galens use of the humours.
Virchow and Reinhardts journal has proven to be remarkably
resilient. Today it is still one of the leading medical journals. It is
now called Virchows Archiv. Sadly its founding co-editor Benno
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Reinhardt died young in 1852. Virchow, who had a prodigious

appetite for hard work, became the journals sole editor until his own
death in 1902.
Epidemics and Public Health
Early in 1848 Virchow was sent by the Prussian Government to
Upper Silesia to investigate the typhus epidemic that had begun the
previous year and was claiming thousands of lives.
After studying the situation, Virchow characterized the peasants of
Upper Silesia as lazy and unhygienic. He was shocked at the extreme
poverty they lived in and their extremely poor diet. He blamed their
plight on the combined effects of the Catholic Church sapping the
people of ambition and local landowners removing any wealth
generated in Upper Silesia to be spent elsewhere.
The medical consensus at the time, accepted by Virchow, was that
diseases like typhus are caused by miasma bad air caused by
rotting matter. Virchow believed malaria was caused by rotting
vegetable miasma, while typhus was caused by rotting animal
miasma. So, although he rejected some doctrines of medicine taught
in ancient times by Galen, he did not question the truth of miasmas.
Virchow did not recognize that epidemics are spread by
microorganisms.
He formed the view that the main cause of the epidemic in Upper
Silesia was the terrible conditions most of the people were living in.
He decided that if living conditions could be improved, there would
be no more epidemics.
Epidemics, he said, were best treated politically rather than
medically. This is not entirely correct. However, he was correct to say
that improving peoples living conditions, hygiene, and diet would be
highly beneficial to their general health and well-being. And,
although he did not know it, better hygiene slows the spread of the
microorganisms that cause epidemics such as typhus, and, more
recently, 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 the
weekly magazine Medical Reform to 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 it
was highly influential in promoting improved public health
for everyone in 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 Pasteur
started advancing it, backed with experimental data, in the late
1850s.
Virchow opposed the germ theory of disease.
His own belief was that cells became diseased as a result of internal
processes resulting from imbalances in the body. In fact, Virchow
was partly correct: imbalances in the body can lead to cells
malfunctioning and becoming diseased.
However, cells can also become diseased when they are attacked by
microorganisms. 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 enjoyed
rather long lives particularly for the era they were alive in living
to be 87, 99, 84, 85 and 90 years old respectively.
Rudolph Virchow died from heart failure at the age of 80 in Berlin on
September 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 beside
him 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 in

activation in cortical regions during visualization of the dance
being learned when compared to the first week, shows a study on
ballet cancers. However, at 34 weeks, it showed reduced
activation 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 prescribed

antidepressants for depression or anxiety have undiagnosed
bipolar 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 help
reconcile mutation-rate-based estimates of the split between
chimpanzees and humans with the fossil record, suggesting that
the split may have been as recent as 6.6 million years ago, new
research 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 half
a million deaths due to severe infections. A new avenue has been
found 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 and
leads to 1.7 million deaths across the globe. It often develops when
an insufficient supply of oxygen reaches the kidneys, a condition
called ischemia. Researchers have traced one of the causes of
ischemia-related renal failure to a signaling molecule and a
specific 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-microbe
medications may not be best for preventing the evolution of drug
resistance in all cases.

Researchers

document

how

normal

diet

establishes immune tolerance conditions in the

small intestine: (28th January, 2016)
The immune system has built-in tolerance mechanisms that
harness itself from responding to benign foreign antigens
beneficial to our system, like food. When such tolerance fails, we
suffer from an overt immune reaction, such as food allergies,
which can be severe enough to be fatal. Now researchers
document how normal diet establishes immune tolerance
conditions in the small intestine.
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Study identifies protein that causes problems

for Cystic fibrosis or CF lungs: (28th January,
2016)
A new study provides an answer for a long-standing scientific
puzzle: why don't mice with CF gene mutations develop the lifethreatening lung disease that affects most people with CF? The
answer to the puzzle identifies a proton pump called ATP12A as a
potential target for new CF therapies.

First demonstration of a cancer arising from a

single cell: (28th January, 2016)

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

Cellulose nanogenerators could one day power

implanted biomedical devices: (27th January,
2016)

Implantable electronics that can deliver drugs, monitor vital signs

and perform other health-related roles are on the horizon. But
finding a way to power them remains a challenge. Now scientists
have built a flexible nanogenerator out of cellulose, an abundant
natural material, that could potentially harvest energy from the
body -- its heartbeats, blood flow and other almost imperceptible
but constant movements.
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KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

First topical treatment for common benign skin

lesions

An investigation into the molecular mechanisms responsible for the

most common type of benign skin lesion may lead to the first
nonsurgical treatment for the growths called seborrheic keratoses
(SKs), which in addition to being cosmetically unattractive are often
worrisome to patients. A paper by Massachusetts General Hospital
(MGH) researchers, published online in theJournal of Investigative
Dermatology, reports that blocking the action of a specific signaling
enzyme leads to the death of cultured SK cells and the breakdown of
SK lesions. SKs are dependent on an enzyme called Akt for survival.
Inhibition of this enzyme in SK cells causes rapid cell death while
having no effect on normal skin cells. Sometimes called "senile
warts," "barnacles" or "liver spots," SKs vary in color from tan to
black, can be flat or raised, and range in size from quite small to an
inch or more across. They become more common with aging; most
individuals over 40 are likely to have a few, and some can have
hundreds scattered across the torso and face. While SKs have some
microscopic features in common with their malignant counterpart
squamous cell carcinoma and most have mutations in genes known
to be involved in cancer, SKs never become malignant.
Previous research by members of the MGH team identified increased
expression in SKs of growth factor receptors and other genes
thought to be involved in skin cell differentiation and in skin cancer
development. Neel explains, "We still don't know why SKs resist
malignant transformation but we think studying SKs will help us
identify factors that prevent benign lesions from becoming
malignant.
The two genes that are most frequently mutated in SKs -- called
PI3K and FGFR3 -- code for proteins that affect the activation of the
Akt kinase enzyme, which is known to block several cell-death
related pathways. Although previous studies have reported higher
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levels of activated Akt in SKs than in normal skin, determining the

significance of that finding was hampered by the inability to grow
SK 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 their
biology.
Cultured SK cells were exposed to a panel of specific kinase
inhibitors, confirming that the development and maintenance of SK
cells requires the presence of activated Akt. One particular Akt
inhibitor, called A44 (A-443654, produced by Abbvie
Pharmaceuticals), was by far the most efficient at inducing the death
of cultured SK cells. Small doses of A44 initiated a cell-death
program called apoptosis. The researchers also found that applying
A44 to intact SK lesions that had been excised from patients' skin
and maintained in culture caused the lesions to die through
apoptosis.
"Within 48 hours of exposure to A44, the SK lesions from patients
completely disintegrated," says co-author Anna Mandinova, MD,
PhD, of MGH's Cutaneous Research Biology Center. "This effect was
very 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 and
several other compounds in order to identify the best candidate for
clinical trials of a topical treatment for SKs. A patent application
based on the study findings has been filed, and the team is
continuing to pursue what SKs can reveal about the molecular
differences between benign and malignant tumors.
"Understanding why SKs never become malignant, even though they
have mutations in classic oncogenes, was the primary question we
wanted to address when we started studying this skin lesion.
Finding a novel inhibitor of SKs was a serendipitous byproduct of
that inquiry," says Neel, who is an assistant professor of Dermatology
at Harvard Medical School. "We suspect that other, yet-to-bedetermined mutations in SKs are incompatible with the mutations
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that lead to malignancy. For example, p53 is commonly mutated both

in sun-damaged skin and in cancers like squamous cell carcinoma
but is never mutated in SKs. We hope that pinpointing other
mutations underlying SK development will help us understand how
they resist becoming malignant, which could inform us of new ways
of treating more dangerous tumors."
Jeenatara Begum
Assistant Professor
GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

(MERS-CoV) Thailand: (29th January, 2016)

On 24 January 2016, the National IHR Focal Point of Thailand

notified WHO of 1 laboratory-confirmed case of Middle East
respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. This is
the countrys second case of MERS-CoV infection (see DON
published on 10 July 2015).
Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

National seminar on Innovation in Pharmaceutical Research at G

Pulla Reddy College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad will be held on 6th

February 2016.

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DRUGS UPDATES

FDA

Approves

Zepatier

(elbasvir

and

grazoprevir) for Chronic Hepatitis C Genotypes 1

and 4: (28th January, 2016)
The
U.S.
Food
and
Drug
Administration
approved Zepatier (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 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
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2nd: Nirmita Gupta

3rd: Sneha Pal
Discuss for Girls:
1st: Manpreet Ghai
2nd: Nirmita Gupta
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.
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100 meter Race for Boys:

1st: Abu Sufian
2nd: Maruf Billa Akunjee
3rd: Arijit Mitra Thakur
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.

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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.
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
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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 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
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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
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:
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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.
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)
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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 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.
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ESPERANZA:

On 21st August, 2015 the 1st year students of GNIPST were

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

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION:

GNIPST has been certified by the Alumni Association under the

West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961.
FAREWELL PROGRAMME:
On 15th May 2015 GNIPST celebrated the farewell programme
Sesh Chithi for the final year students of M.Pharm, M.Sc,
B.Pharm, B.Sc and BHM.
JIS SAMMAN 2015
On 11th May, 2015 GNIPST attended the JIS SAMMAN 2015.
JIS SAMMAN Awards:
Best College (Non Engineering):
GNIPST
Best Principal:
Dr (Prof.) Avijit Sengupta
Best HOD:
Mr. Jaydip Ray
Best Faculty:
Mr. Debabrata Ghoshdastidar (Pharmacy)
Dr. Swati Chakraborty (Life Sciences)
Best faculty since inception:
Mr. Jaydip Ray
Best Office Staff:
Ms. Jaya Banerjee
Best technical Assistant:
Mr. Somnath Majhi
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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 Roy
Poushali Ganguly
Quiz:
Arani
Dipayan Nath
Band:
Syantan Ghoswami
Anurag Ghosh

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Atanu Mondal
Arka Khamaru
Ritobroto Paul
Abhirup Dasgupta
Fashion:
Md. Nadeem Shah
Koustav Sarkar
Shaksar Saha
Avirup Dasgupta
Ranit Kundu
Namrata Ganguly
Shreyasee Mitra
Chandrika Saha
Debopriya Chatterjee
Riya Taran
Innovative Modeling:
Ankit Chowdhury
Kartik Koley
Mudasar Manna
Dipan Chaterjee
Abhishek Singh
Kaustav Pal
Manojit Dutta
SPIRIT JIS 2015
On 03th to 05th April, 2015 JIS organised SPIRIT JIS 2015.
GPAT 2015 Result:
The following B.Pharm. final year students have qualified, GPAT2015. We congratulate them all.
Diksha Kumari
Rupanjay Bhattacharya
Avik Paul
Xtasy 2015:
GNIPST is going to organize the Tech Fest Xtasy 2015 from 30th
March, 2015 to 1st April, 2015.
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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.
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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.
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:
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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.
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.
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On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the Reunion

programmeReminiscence Reloaded 2015.

STUDENTS SECTION
WHO CAN ANS WER FIRS T????

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
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of this Section at gnipstbulletin@gmail.com
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, 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
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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 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.
GNIPST is now approved by AICTE and affiliated to WBUT for
conducting the two years post graduate course (M.Pharm) in
PHARMACOLOGY. The approved number of seat is 18.
The number of seats in B.Pharm. has been increased from 60 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/- 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,
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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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