National Pharmacy Teachers Training Programme Begins at PU

Chandigarh February 25, 2019
        A one week Faculty Training School, on “Modern Bioanalytical Techniques for Drug Discovery” from 25 February to 2 March 2019 was inaugurated today at University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab University Campus, for pharma faculty participants across the country under the initiative of UGC Networking Resource Centre (NRC). 
        A total of 20 participants have been selected for training, hailing from 
various Colleges/Universities, representing 10 different states of India. The training school started today i.e. February 25, 2019 in the Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall of Panjab University Campus, with an aim to sensitize and train the human resources so that they can be better equipped with the applications of modern bioanalytical techniques in drug discovery and get motivated to apply them in their respective areas of interest. 
        Professor Kanwaljit Chopra, Chairperson, UIPS, Programme Coordinator, UGC-NRC welcomed the participants and briefed them about the accomplishments of UGC-NRC programmes. 
        Professor Poonam Piplani, Course Coordinator of the training school summarized about the course content to the participants and Professor Ranju Bansal, Joint Course Coordinator of the course, took charge of the proceedings of the event. 
        Professor T. R. Sharma, Executive Director, National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali, Punjab, was the Chief Guest and delivered a highly informative talk on latest biotechnological approaches being adopted to enhance food and nutritional security in the country. 
        Professor Vasundhara Singh from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh acquainted the participants with the concept of UV-Visible Spectroscopy as a Bioanalytical Tool. 
        UIPS is the first and the only Pharmacy Institute in the country selected by MHRD for creating UGC Networking Resource Centre to promote and foster research and academics in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences by training young pharma trainers, selected across the Nation