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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 year’s editors and congratulate the newly selected editors for the current year.

Our first consideration is always in the best interest of the students. Our goal is to promote 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 ARTICLEThales (c. 624 BC – c. 546 BC)

Early Life and Education Thales was born into a privileged family in the ancient Greek city of Miletus in about the year 624 BC. His father’s name was Examyes and his mother’s name was Cleobuline. He was born in the same era as Aesop, famous for his fables. When Thales was born, Miletus was one of the wealthiest and most powerful of all the Greek cities. Today it is located on the coast of Turkey. Thales was born into a Greek society which was intellectually less advanced than those to its east and south – the Babylonians and the Ancient Egyptians for example. The Babylonians were masterful astronomers and mathematicians, while the Egyptians were also far ahead of the Greeks in these fields. In Egypt and Babylon, mathematics was used in commerce, astronomy and construction projects. It was a thoroughly practical science. Astronomy was used to study the heavens to understand what the gods might be thinking. As a young man Thales became a merchant, which was probably his family’s line of business. In his later years Thales traveled to Egypt, where he learned about astronomy and mathematics. He may have traveled to Babylon; if he did, it would have been during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. When Thales returned to Miletus he changed careers, took a big drop in income, and became Ancient Greece’s first scientist.


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Thales: The Science At some point, after he returned to Miletus, Thales took a step beyond his teachers. (Of course, his teachers may have taken this step themselves, but if they did, there is no historical record of it.) In Egypt the annual rise in the River Nile’s level was vital for the success of the Kingdom’s harvests. Every year the silty river would rise and replenish the land around it with nutrients and moisture. The river would then fall and Egyptians would farm the newly fertile land. Without the Nile there could be no Kingdom of Egypt, because rain hardly ever fell there. The Egyptians believed the Nile’s floods were caused by Hapi, one of their many gods. If the gods were displeased, the river would not flood, and there would be famine. The gods had to be kept happy at all costs. Nowadays, of course, we know the Nile floods because of seasonal rains that fall further south in Africa: in fact it was another Ancient Greek, Eratosthenes, who was the first to figure this out, although Thales himself seems to have speculated about the true cause. The switch between believing that the gods were responsible for day-to-day events and believing that if we understood natural phenomena we could actually explain and predict events was Thales’ greatest achievement. It unleashed people’s ability to think about the underlying causes of what we observe. It was the first scientific thinking that we know of: Thales was the man who dumped superstition in favor of science. One dark evening Thales was out walking in Miletus, looking at the night sky. He stumbled into a ditch, whereupon an old woman, who knew him as a ‘thinker’ laughed, and asked: “How can you see what the heavens are telling you when you can’t even see what is under your own feet?” Thales seems to have been Ancient Greece’s first ever academic – its first science nerd in fact! And he was mocked for it. In the


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wealthy city of Miletus people told Thales that no one could ever prosper from merely thinking, and that’s why he was not rich. Thales, however, proved his detractors wrong. He decided to show them that he could use his science to make money. He had studied weather patterns in the region of Ionia, where the city of Miletus was located. One winter, he realized that the next season’s olive harvest would be a bumper crop. While it was still winter he placed small deposits to hire all of the olive presses in Miletus for the next harvest. In summer, when the olive growers began to realize that a huge crop of olives was coming, they discovered that Thales had already hired all of the olive presses. Thales made a fortune by selling his rights to the olive presses to the olive growers. In becoming wealthy in this way Thales carried out no physical work. He grew rich by applying his observations of weather patterns to predict how big the olive crop would be. He did not need any help from Aristaeus, the Greek god of olive groves. Earthquakes Ancient people believed earthquakes were a measure of their gods’ anger. Sacrifices, including human sacrifices in some cultures, became the normal way of trying to pacify angry gods. Thales sought a rational explanation for earthquakes. He theorized that our whole planet Earth is a flat disc floating on an infinite sea of water and that earthquakes come when the planet is hit by a wave traveling through the water. With the benefit of modern science we know that Thales got it wrong. His theory was, however, an enormous advance on saying that the earth shook because Zeus was annoyed about something. Thales had at least tried to find a rational explanation for earthquakes. A further benefit of Thales’ ideas (mercifully) was that they required no sacrifices to be made. Thales sought a rational explanation for earthquakes. He theorized that our whole planet Earth is a flat disc floating on an infinite sea of water and that earthquakes come when the planet is hit by a


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wave traveling through the water. With the benefit of modern science we know that Thales got it wrong. His theory was, however, an enormous advance on saying that the earth shook because Zeus was annoyed about something. Thales had at least tried to find a rational explanation for earthquakes. A further benefit of Thales’ ideas (mercifully) was that they required no sacrifices to be made. Thales thought deeply about matter. He decided that, fundamentally, everything must be made of the same thing – much as today we believe that all matter is made of atoms. His idea was that in its most fundamental form, all matter is water. In fact, it only took about 200 years for Thales’ idea that “all matter is water” to be transformed by his later compatriot Democritus into “all matter is atoms.” The Ancient Greek historian Plutarch, who lived 600 years after Thales died, wrote that Egyptian priests claimed that Thales’ “everything is water” theory originally came out of Egypt. Astronomy Thales learned about astronomy in Egypt and possibly Babylon. When Archimedes was killed during the Roman conquest of Syracuse in 212 BC, the Roman historian Cicero wrote about the event. The Romans discovered that Archimedes had a machine that accurately predicted the movement of the moon and planets and predicted solar and lunar eclipses. (Such a machine has actually been found by archeologists – it is an amazingly sophisticated device called the Antikythera Mechanism.) The Romans also found a more basic globe showing the celestial sphere – a forerunner of the Antikythera Mechanism – which had first been made by Thales. Groundbreaking Mathematics As with astronomy, Thales learned about mathematics in Egypt and possibly Babylon.


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Back in Miletus, he built on what he had learned and was the first person to use deductive logic in mathematics, producing new results in geometry. He established for the first time that mathematical theorems require to be proved before they are accepted as true. He began the transformation of mathematics from a practical, applied field of study to one that could be investigated and explored without any concern for the practical uses of the results. In these ways Thales took great leaps towards modern pure mathematics, a subject which is based upon deduction and proof and is not concerned with practical uses for its findings. (Funnily enough, although pure mathematics is performed with no thought given to practical uses, discoveries in pure mathematics often turn out to be important in the real world!) Thales taught mathematics in the Milesian School, which he established, setting the stage for mathematics to flourish in Ancient Greece. Belief in Gods Thales did not reject the gods. He believed the gods were present in everything. As a result of this, all matter had some aspect of life in it. He thought that by understanding the fundamental principles of nature, people would actually get to know and understand their gods better. Legacy Thales was the founder of science in Ancient Greece. He established the Milesian School, which passed on his knowledge, most notably to Anaximander and Pythagoras. Greek science and mathematics peaked about 300 years later, in the era of Archimedes. The rediscovery of Ancient Greek science and mathematics was the spark that fired the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution in Europe, which set science on the course leading ultimately to where it is now. The rejection of superstition in favor of science began with Thales.


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Family Life and The End Accounts from ancient historians disagree about whether Thales ever married. Some say he married and had a son. Others say that he did not marry, but treated one of his nephews as if he were his son. Thales died aged about 78 in about the year 546 BC.

NEWS UPDATE Self-injury: Raising the profile of a dangerous

behavior: (30th October, 2015) Nonsuicidal self-injury is not officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as a mental disorder, which means insurance may not cover treatment - despite estimates that anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of adolescents suffer from it. New research lays out a case for recognizing the condition, as profiled in a new report.

Diet lacking soluble fiber promotes weight gain, mouse study suggests: (30th October, 2015) A new study highlights the importance of the gut microbiome in maintaining intestinal and metabolic health and suggests that eating more foods high in soluble fiber may help prevent metabolic disease and obesity.

Researchers identify association between reproductive factors and risk of death: (30th October, 2015) Reproductive factors in women, such as a later starting age of menstruation, having children, breastfeeding and use of oral contraceptives, are associated with a reduced risk of death, according to new research. A better understanding of how these factors can influence long-term health could help in the development of clinical strategies to improve women's health.


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New immunotherapy treatment may clear cancer-causing HPV infections faster: (30th October, 2015) A new therapeutic vaccine, GTL001, developed to clear HPV strains 16 and 18 – the types most likely to cause cancer – is being evaluated for safety in a Phase I clinical trial.

Treatment of severe acne hampered by antibiotic overuse, delays in prescribing more potent medication: (30th October, 2015) Physicians who treat severe acne leave too many patients on ineffective antibiotics for far too long before prescribing more potent needed therapy with the medication isotretinoin, sometimes known by its former brand name Accutane, a medical records analysis concludes.

Nuclear membrane repairs the 'dark matter' of DNA: (29th October, 2015) The nuclear membrane isn't just a protective case around the nucleus -- it actually repairs catastrophically broken DNA strands.

Predisposing gene associated with Cowden syndrome: (29th October, 2015) A new gene associated with Cowden syndrome, an inherited condition that carries high risks of thyroid, breast, and other cancers, and a subset of non-inherited thyroid cancers, has been discovered by scientists.


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Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer boosts survival by more than 75 percent in mice: (29th October, 2015) A new study in mice has found that a specialized type of immunotherapy -- even when used without chemotherapy or radiation -- can boost survival from pancreatic cancer, a nearly almost-lethal disease, by more than 75 percent. The findings are so promising, human clinical trials are planned within the next year.

Adults with schizophrenia more likely to die; high cardiovascular death rates: (28th October, 2015) Adults with schizophrenia were more than 3.5 times as likely to die as adults in the general US population, particularly from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and that implicates tobacco as a modifiable risk factor, according to an article.

Study compares combination treatments for black adults with asthma: (27th October, 2015) Among black adults with asthma treated with an inhaled corticosteroid, adding a long-acting beta-agonist did not improve the time to an asthma exacerbation compared with adding the anticholinergic tiotropium, according to a study.

Decreases seen in leading causes of death: (27th October, 2015) An analysis of deaths in the United States between 1969 and 2013 finds an overall decreasing trend in the age-standardized death rate for all causes combined and for heart disease, cancer, stroke, unintentional injuries, and diabetes, although the rate of decrease


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appears to have slowed for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, according to a study.

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KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

New therapy for certain types of advanced soft tissue sarcoma

Yondelis (trabectedin), a chemotherapy, for the treatment of specific soft tissue sarcomas (STS) – liposarcoma and leiomyosarcoma – that cannot be removed by surgery(unresectable) or is advanced (metastatic). This treatment is approved for patients who previously received chemotherapy that contained anthracycline. According to the National Cancer Institute, STS is a disease in which cancer cells form in the soft tissues of the body, including the muscles, tendons, fat, blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves and tissues around joints. Liposarcoma and leiomyosarcoma are specific types of STS that occur in fat cells (liposarcoma) or smooth muscle cells (leiomyosarcoma). STS can form almost anywhere in the body, but is most common in the head, neck, arms, legs, trunk and abdomen. In 2014, an estimated 12,000 cases of STS were diagnosed in the United States. “The treatment of advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma represents a difficult challenge with few effective therapeutic choices available for patients,” said Richard Pazdur, M.D., director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “Approval of Yondelis provides a treatment option for advanced or metastatic liposarcoma and leiomyosarcoma.” The effectiveness and safety of Yondelis were demonstrated in 518 clinical trial participants with metastatic or recurrent leiomyosarcoma or liposarcoma. Participants were randomly


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assigned to receive either Yondelis (345 patients) or dacarbazine (173 patients), another chemotherapy drug. Participants who received Yondelis experienced a delay in the growth of their tumor (progression-free survival), which occurred on average about 4.2 months after starting treatment, compared to participants assigned to dacarbazine, whose disease progressed an average of 1.5 months after starting treatment. The most common side effects among participants who received Yondelis were nausea, fatigue, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, decreased appetite, shortness of breath (dyspnea), headache, tissue swelling (peripheral edema), a decrease in infection-fighting white blood cells (neutropenia), low blood platelet counts (thrombocytopenia), low red blood cell count (anemia), elevated liver enzymes and decreases in albumin, a protein found in blood. Yondelis carries a warning alerting health care providers of the risk of severe and fatal blood infections (neutropenic sepsis), muscle tissue breakdown (rhabdomyolysis), liver damage (hepatotoxicity), leakage around the vein or catheter (extravasation), tissue necrosis (breakdown) and heart failure (cardiomyopathy). Patients with known hypersensitivity to trabectedin, a drug used to treat cancer, should not take Yondelis. Health care providers are also encouraged to advise women of potential risks to a developing fetus when taking Yondelis. Women who are taking Yondelis should not breastfeed. Yondelis is marketed by Janssen Products of Raritan, New Jersey.

Jeenatara Begum Assistant Professor

GNIPST


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DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

(MERS-CoV) – Republic of Korea: (25th October, 2015) On 12 October 2015, the National IHR Focal Point of the Republic of Korea provided follow-up information on a previously reported case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. The patient, who was discharged from hospital on 3 October following two consecutive negative PCR tests for MERS-CoV, was readmitted to hospital with fever on 11 October and tested again positive for MERS-CoV on 12 October. Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS 30th Annual Conference of IPGA is going to be held on 31st October,

2015 at Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. 2nd Indo-Korean Conference on “Recent Issues and Ongoing

Trends in Medicinal Plant Research” will be held on 2nd November, 2015 at Gokula Krishna College of Pharmacy, Sullirupeta, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. National Seminar on Recent Advances in Natural Products

Chemistry for Drug Discovery will be held on 28th to 29th November, 2015 at Department of Chemistry, Netaji Subhash Mahavidhylaya, Udaipur, Tripura. National Conference on “Medicinal Chemistry Perspective in

Drug Discovery and Therapy” will be held on 3rd December, 2015 at Pacific College of Pharmacy, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan.


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DRUGS UPDATES Nitrous Oxide OK During Surgery for People With

Heart Disease: (25th October, 2015) Nitrous oxide, commonly known as "laughing gas," is a safe anesthetic for surgery patients who have or are at risk of heart disease, a new study finds. Read more

CAMPUS NEWS National Science Day 2015:


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On 7th November 2015, GNIPST is going to organize National Seminer on “Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare”, a one Day Programme on “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. Name of the committees are given below:

Chief Patron: Sardar Jodh Singh

Patron: Mr Taranjit Singh

Advisor: Mr U. S. Mukherjee Prof Asit Guha

President: Dr Abhijit Sengupta

Convener : Dr Swati Chakraboty

Organizing Committee:

Chairman: Dr Swati Chakraboty

Co-Chairman: Dr Lopamudra Dutta

Organizing Secretary: Dr Asis Bala

Joint Secretary: Dr Prerona Saha

Tresurer: Sumana Roy

Scientific Committee:

Chairman: Dr Sumana Chatterjee

Co-Chairpersons: Debabroto Ghosh Dostidar

Reception & Hospitality Committee:

Chairman: Jaydip Roy

Co-Chairpersons: Sanchari Bhattacharya, Debasruti Ganguly,Dr

Utsav Debnath


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Souvinior Committee:

Chairman: Dr Sriparna Kundu Sen

Co-Chairpersons: Jeenatara Begum, Sourav Pal

Registration Committee:

Chairman: Samrat Bose

Co-Chairpersons: Prapti Chakraborty, Moumita Chakraborty

Food & Refreshment Committee: Chairman: Dipanjan Mandal

Co-Chairpersons: Soumya Bhattacharya , Tanmay Majumder

Publicity & Invitation Committee: Chairman: Tamalika

Chakraborty

Co-Chairpersons: Dr Aparupa Bhattacharya, Dr Kirat Ganguly, Dr

Bhaskar Choudhuri, Abhishek Chatterjee

Decoration Committee: Chairman: Anuranjita Kundu

Co-Chairpersons: Dr Koushik Sen, Sampat Kundu

Name of the Student members for different Committees are:

B.Pharm 4th year:

Anirban Roy

Subhadeep Das

Aishika Datta

Puja Adhikari

Maitryee Banerjee

Sreya Sanyal

Nilotpal Gorai


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Subham Ghoshal

Suprabhat Bhattacharjee

Abhinandan Mondal

Tanmoy Das Biswas

Arijit Mondal

Chandrika Saha

Swaranjit Banik

Sourav Saha

B.Sc 1st year:

Meghna Sur

Shivangi Pandey

Shivangi Choudhury

Vaishali Kacchalia

Sonali Thakkur

Simona Basak

Abhishek Chakroborty

Adrija Bhattacharjee

Chandrayee Sil

Somoduity Paul

Rishav Biswas

Solanki Sanu

P.Meghna Rao

Nimisha Choudhury

Indrila Mukherjee


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Piu Bhattacharjee

Rudra Sen

Sayantani Guha

Avik Saha

Raj Adhya

Sudeshna Chaterjee

Ankan Bhowmik

Ritwika Sur

Debleena Sil

Sayantan Sarkar

Nilanjan Roy

Anamika Ghosh

Srayan Biswas

B.Sc 2nd year:

Ritobroto Paul

Soumik Majumder

Sikha Jain

Varsha Srivastab

Riyanka Majumder

Protim Singha Roy

Nilabja Seel

Vishal Kumar Singh

Ankita Aditya

B.Sc 3rd year:


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Imtiaz Mahamud

Bipasha Ray

Ankita Roy

Camellia Roy

Sreejita Roy

BHM 1st year:

Mayuri Ghosh

Debottri Das

Sunanda Sarkar

BHM 2nd year:

Debashruti Roy

Srikant Kumar

BHM 3rd year:

Subham Chakraborty

Satabdi Bhattacharya

For the National Seminar on “Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare” on 7th November 2015, last date for Abstract submission for poster presentation is 28th October 2015.

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.


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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) 3rd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm 4th year) Chess (for Girls):


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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 participants- Souvik 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

• College Blue:


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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 Ray Dipayan Nath Band:

Syantan Ghoswami Anurag Ghosh Atanu Mondal Arka Khamaru


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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, 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.


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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. On 21

st 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.


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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: 27.03.2015Time: 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 Math wasdelivered some motivational lectuers in GNIPST. The students of GNIPST participated in the 4th Sardar JodhSinghTrophy organised by NIT on 20th February, 2015.


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

STUDENTS’ SECTION WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST????

What is Akatamathesia?

Answer of Previous Issue’s Image: Sir Arthur Konan Doyle

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

EDITOR’S NOTE It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 3rd issue of 50th 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


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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.

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 potentialmedicinal 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.


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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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