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TO REACH THE PINNACLE OF GLORY AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN THE FIELD OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BY KNOWLEDGE

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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

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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 DR. ABHIJIT SENGUPTA EDITOR MS. JEENATARA BEGUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR MR. DIPANJAN MANDAL

HISTORICAL ARTICLE Antibacterials in the Middle Ages: Mentioning that one of the exhibits contained Gerard's Herball, Sir Howard pointed out that among the illustrations was the wallflower. "If you take any part of the wallflower, its stem, seed, or leaves, and grind them up, the liquid in which they have been drowned is a very powerful antibacterial. It is much more powerful than carbolic, and was certainly used in the Middle Ages, and possibly earlier, as a poultice to apply to various inflamed parts. There is some connexion between the herbalist and the type of pharmacy now being done." The old-fashioned meaning of the word pharmacy had greatly degenerated, in the United States to the local drug store, which was just another place for breakfast, and in England to the chemist's shop, where a large part of the pharmacist's time was devoted to the selling of beauty preparations. However, doctors still had to give prescriptions, and patients still swallowed medicine. Dr. E. ASHWORTH UNDERWOOD, director of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, in thanking Sir Howard Florey, said that in presenting the exhibition they had interpreted the word pharmacy in liberal terms, and consequently a number of exhibits would be seen which were connected with other sciences and with other arts. He did not wish it to be thought, however, that the exhibition dealt only with the artistic point of view. Within the limited space available they had tried to include the great classics which had influenced therapeutics.


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NEWS UPDATE National Epilepsy Day 21st June, 2015

Epilepsy is the most common neurological condition. About one in every 100 people has epilepsy. A single seizure does not necessarily mean you have epilepsy. Epilepsy can affect anyone at any age. 75% of people with epilepsy have had their first seizure before the age of 20.

Major regional variation in use of clotbuster drug tPA reveals opportunities to improve care & prevent disability: 26th June, 2015 It looks like a crazy quilt spread over the continent. But a new map of emergency stroke care in America shows just how much of a patchwork system we still have for delivering the most effective stroke treatment. And thousands of people a year may end up unnecessarily disabled as a result.

Daily bathing of pediatric patients with antiseptic cuts bloodstream infections by 59 percent: 26th June, 2015 Daily bathing of pediatric patients with disposable cloths containing 2 percent chlorhexidine gluconate reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections by 59 percent and saved approximately $300,000 in one hospital over a six-month period, according to a new study.

Pet care can help improve adolescents' Type 1 diabetes management, pediatricians find: 26th June, 2015 Pediatric diabetes researchers found that incorporating routine pet care into a child's diabetes self-care plan can significantly improve monitoring of the disease, resulting in lower blood glucose levels.


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Targeted drug delivery method could potentially slow progression of polycystic kidney disease: 25th June, 2015 For the 12 million people worldwide who suffer from polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an inherited disorder with no known cure, a new treatment option may be on the horizon. A targeted drug delivery method has been developed that could potentially slow the progression of polycystic kidney disease.

Molecule protects body from dangerous overreaction to viral attack: 26th June, 2015 The flu virus can be lethal. But what is often just as dangerous is the body's own reaction to the invader. The immune counterattack can end up harming the body's own tissues, causing deadly damage. Now, a researcher has, for the first time, uncovered new details about how this response plays out. And he has identified a 'decoy' molecule that can rein in this runaway inflammatory response.

Light fixture kills bacteria safely, continuously: 26th June, 2015 A new light fixture uses Continuous Environmental Disinfection technology to continuously kill harmful bacteria linked to hospital acquired infections (HAIs). The technology behind the Indigo-Clean inactivates a wide range of micro-organisms that are known causes of HAIs, including MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), C.difficile and VRE (Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus).

Action spectrum of sun skin damage documented: 26th June, 2015 Scientists have documented for the first time the DNA damage that can occur to skin across the full range of ultraviolet radiation from the sun providing an invaluable tool for sun-protection and the manufacturers of sunscreen.


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Inactivity reduces people's muscle strength: 26th June, 2015 It only takes two weeks of not using their legs for young people to lose a third of their muscular strength, leaving them on par with a person who is 40-50 years their senior, new research shows.

Braking mechanism identified for cell growth pathway linked to several cancers: 26th June, 2015 A self-regulating loop in the Hippo pathway, a signaling channel garnering increased attention from cancer researchers due to its role in controlling organ size, cell proliferation and cell death, has been identified by researchers.

RNASEH1 mutations impair mtDNA replication, cause adult-onset mitochondrial encephalomyopathy: 26th June, 2015 Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology offers an incredible opportunity for the rapid and relatively low-cost characterization of individual genomes, giving us a chance to make a substantial leap ahead in the molecular dissection of all mitochondrial disorders in humans. For detail mail to editor

KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE Key protein may affect risk of stroke

Studies on mice reveal that a special protein in the brain's tiniest blood vessels may affect the risk of stroke. Peter Carlsson, professor in genetics at the University of Gothenburg, and his research team are publishing new research findings in the journalDevelopmental Cell about how the blood-brain barrier


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develops and what makes the capillaries in the brain different from small blood vessels in other organs. The brain's smallest blood vessels differ from those in other organs in that the capillary walls are much more compact. The nerve cells in the brain get the nutrients they need by molecules actively being transported from the blood, instead of passively leaking out from the blood vessels. This blood-brain barrier is vital, because it enables strict control over the substances with which the brain's nerve cells come into contact. It has a protective function that if it fails, increases the risk of stroke and other complications. Special cell type essential to development The smallest blood vessels, the capillaries, have a type of cell called pericytes. These are essential to the development of the blood-brain barrier. Pericytes are also found in other organs, and researchers have previously been unable to find out what gives the brain's pericytes this unique ability. The Gothenburg research team has found that the brain's pericytes contain a protein, FoxF2, which is not present in the pericytes of other organs, and which coordinates the changes that make the blood vessels compact. FoxF2 is needed in order for the blood-brain barrier to form during fetal development. "Mice that have too little or too much FoxF2 develop various types of defects in the brain's blood vessels," explains Peter Carlsson, professor at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology. One gene may play a critical role In humans, researchers have noted that major changes in a region of chromosome 6 have been associated with an increased risk of stroke, but it has not been known which of the genes in the area are responsible for this risk. "The FoxF2 gene is an extremely interesting candidate, as it is located right in the middle of this region, and research is under way now in collaboration with clinical geneticists to investigate


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the extent to which variations in the FoxF2 gene affect people's risk of suffering a stroke," says Peter Carlsson.

Jeenatara Begum Assistant Professor

GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

(MERS-CoV) United Arab Emirates: (26th June, 2015) On 21 June 2015, the National IHR Focal Point of the United Arab Emirates notified WHO of 2 additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS 61st IPSF World Congress sponsored by Indian Pharmaceutical

Association (IPA) at Marriott Hotel, Hyderabad, India is going to on 30th July to 9th August, 2015.

For further details please visit www.ipsf2015.org

DRUGS UPDATES FDA Approves Antiplatelet Agent Kengreal

(cangrelor) as Adjunct to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: (22nd June, 2015) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Kengreal (cangrelor), an intravenous antiplatelet drug that prevents formation of harmful blood clots in the coronary arteries, the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart. It is approved for adult patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention


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(PCI), a procedure used to open a blocked or narrowed coronary artery to improve blood flow to the heart muscle.

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CAMPUS NEWSFAREWELL PROGRAMME:

On 15th May 2015 GNIPST clebrated 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)


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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 ray Dipayan Nath Band:

Syantan Ghoswami Anurag Ghosh Atanu Mondal Arka Khamaru Ritobroto Paul Abhirup Dasgupta

Fashion: Md. Nadeem Shah Koustav Sarkar


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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, GPAT-2015. 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.

FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME: The FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME is going to organize 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 21st

February, 2015 the Finishing School Training Programme ofGNIPST 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:

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:


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

2nd Floor, Ecospace Campus B (3 B), New Town, Rajarhat, 24 Pgs (N). Kolkata-700156.

THYROCARE provisionally selected 15 students from JIS Group. Amongst these, 3 students of B. Sc (H) Biotechnology and M. 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 Mathwasdelivered some motivational lectuers in GNIPST.

The students of GNIPST participated in the 4th Sardar JodhSinghTrophy organised by NIT on 20th February, 2015. On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the ReunionprogrammeReminiscence Reloaded 2015.


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STUDENTS SECTION WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST????

The name of which country wascreated as a portmanteau of the

names of the two states that unified to create the country Tanganyika

and Zanzibar?

Answer of Previous Issues Questions: A) Giant panda

Identify the person

Answer of Previous Issues Image: Colin Trevorrow

Send your thoughts/Quiz/Puzzles/games/write-ups or any other contributions for Students Section& answers of this Section at [email protected] NOTE

It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 3rd issue of 46th Volume of GNIPST BULLETIN. All the followers of GNIPST BULLETIN are able to avail the bulletin through facebook account GNIPST


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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 witha nice presentation by Dr. Pulok Kr. Mukherjee, School of NaturalProducts, JU on the skill to write a good manuscript forpublication in impact journals. It was followed by nearly two hourlong discussion among more than thirty participants on differentaspects of pharmacy education. Five nonmember participantsapplied for membership on that very day.

GNIPST is now approved by AICTE and affiliated to WBUT forconducting 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 to120.

AICTE has sanctioned a release of grant under ResearchPromotion Scheme (RPS) during the financial year 2012-13toGNIPST as per the details below:a. Beneficiary Institution: Guru Nanak Institution of PharmaceuticalScience & Technology.


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b. Principal Investigator: Dr. LopamudraDutta.c. Grant-in-aid sanctioned:Rs. 16,25000/- only

d. Approved duration: 3 yearse. 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 Faculty SPORTS Mr. Debabrata GhoshDastidar LITERARY AND PAINTING Ms. Jeenatara Begum SCIENCE AND INNOVATIVE MODELLING

Mr. Samrat Bose

ECO Ms. Sumana Roy SOCIAL SERVICES Dr. Asis Bala PHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Sanchari Bhattacharya CULTURAL Ms. Priyanka Ray DEBATE AND EXTEMPORE Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya


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National Epilepsy Day 21st June, 2015 Major regional variation in use of clotbuster drug tPA reveals opportunities to improve care & prevent disability: 26th June, 2015It looks like a crazy quilt spread over the continent. But a new map of emergency stroke care in America shows just how much of a patchwork system we still have for delivering the most effective stroke treatment. And thousands of people a year may end... Daily bathing of pediatric patients with antiseptic cuts bloodstream infections by 59 percent: 26th June, 2015Daily bathing of pediatric patients with disposable cloths containing 2 percent chlorhexidine gluconate reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections by 59 percent and saved approximately $300,000 in one hospital over a six-month period, acco... Pet care can help improve adolescents' Type 1 diabetes management, pediatricians find: 26th June, 2015Pediatric diabetes researchers found that incorporating routine pet care into a child's diabetes self-care plan can significantly improve monitoring of the disease, resulting in lower blood glucose levels. Targeted drug delivery method could potentially slow progression of polycystic kidney disease: 25th June, 2015For the 12 million people worldwide who suffer from polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an inherited disorder with no known cure, a new treatment option may be on the horizon. A targeted drug delivery method has been developed that could potentially slow... Molecule protects body from dangerous overreaction to viral attack: 26th June, 2015The flu virus can be lethal. But what is often just as dangerous is the body's own reaction to the invader. The immune counterattack can end up harming the body's own tissues, causing deadly damage. Now, a researcher has, for the first time, uncovered... Light fixture kills bacteria safely, continuously: 26th June, 2015A new light fixture uses Continuous Environmental Disinfection technology to continuously kill harmful bacteria linked to hospital acquired infections (HAIs). The technology behind the Indigo-Clean inactivates a wide range of micro-organisms that are... Action spectrum of sun skin damage documented: 26th June, 2015 Inactivity reduces people's muscle strength: 26th June, 2015It only takes two weeks of not using their legs for young people to lose a third of their muscular strength, leaving them on par with a person who is 40-50 years their senior, new research shows. Braking mechanism identified for cell growth pathway linked to several cancers: 26th June, 2015 RNASEH1 mutations impair mtDNA replication, cause adult-onset mitochondrial encephalomyopathy: 26th June, 2015For detail mail to editor

KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLEKey protein may affect risk of stroke Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) United Arab Emirates: (26th June, 2015)On 21 June 2015, the National IHR Focal Point of the United Arab Emirates notified WHO of 2 additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection.Read more FDA Approves Antiplatelet Agent Kengreal (cangrelor) as Adjunct to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: (22nd June, 2015) CAMPUS NEWS STUDENTS SECTION

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