GNIPST BULLETIN 2015

18-12-2015

18th December, 2015

Volume No.: 52 Issue No.: 01

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

Contents

Message from PRINCIPAL

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

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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

Chen-Ning Yang
Early Life and Education
Chen-Ning Franklin Yang was born on October 1, 1922, in the city
of Hefei, China.
His family moved to Beijing when he was young after his father,
Wu-Chih, became a Professor of Mathematics at Tsinghua
University. His mother, Meng-hua was a housewife.
Yang was schooled in Beijing until 1937, when the Japanese
invasion of China forced his family to return to Hefei, and then, a
year later, move to the city of Kunming. The Japanese Army did not
reach Kunming in the south-west of China, although it was
bombed by the Japanese Air Force.
Yang enrolled at the National Southwestern Associated University
in Kunming and was awarded a bachelors degree in physics in
1942.
In 1944 he was awarded a masters degree in physics for his work
in statistical mechanics. He was awarded his degree by Beijings
Tsinghua University, which had relocated to Kunming.
Yang worked as a teacher until he won a United States
government scholarship in 1946, which took him to the University
of Chicago. There his doctoral advisor was Edward Teller, the
father of the hydrogen bomb.
In 1948 Yang was awarded a Ph.D. in physics for his work on
nuclear reactions.

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Chen-Ning Yangs Research Work

After the award of his Ph.D., Yang stayed at Chicago for a year,
working with one of the giants of 20th century physics, Enrico
Fermi.
In 1949 he was invited to become a theoretical physics researcher
at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
The Institute had been founded in 1930 with the goal of employing
the best mathematicians and physicists in the world; Albert
Einstein was there from 1933 until his death in 1955.
Parity Conservation
Atom
Smashing
During the 1950s, increasingly complex results had been coming
out of particle accelerators and cosmic ray detectors, causing
increasing confusion among physicists.
The accelerators were pushing ions and particles to enormous
speeds, then smashing them into one another. Physicists hoped the
debris from the collisions would reveal more about what matter is
and how it behaves.
Cosmic rays high energy particles reaching Earth from the sun
and the stars also produced interesting debris.
The debris from both accelerators and cosmic rays contains
subatomic particles, which are generally unstable, quickly
decaying into other particles.
The
Meson
Problem
Two unstable particles, the theta-meson and the tau-meson, were
causing a lot of heads to be scratched.
In some senses, the theta-meson and the tau-meson looked as if they
might be the same particle: their masses and the average time they
took to decay into other particles seemed to be the same. The thetameson and the tau-mesonboth decayed into pi-mesons, usually known
as pions.
BUT, the theta decayed to produce two pions, while the tau decayed
to produce three pions.

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Most physicists took it as a fundamental law of the universe that

when any particle decayed, its parity stayed the same.
Parity must never be broken: this meant, in a very simplified way,
that the same particle could not possibly decay sometimes into
two pions, and at other times into three pions. Physicists believed
there was a fundamental symmetry in the universe. If parity were
broken, the fundamental symmetry they believed in would also be
broken.
Physicists regarded parity as a property that was conserved in the
same way that energy, momentum, and electric charge are always
conserved.
Yet the only difference physicists could find between the thetameson and the tau-meson was that they decayed differently.
Otherwise these mesons seemed identical.
Yang-Mills Theory
Prior to his Nobel Prize winning work, Yang studied the
fundamental forces in particle physics and how they relate to one
another.
The first unification of forces in physics had happened in the 19th
century, when James Clerk Maxwell unified the electric and
magnetic forces; he showed they were actually manifestations of a
single force: the electromagnetic force. In doing so, Maxwell
established that light is an electromagnetic wave which carries
energy between electric charges.
Maxwells work shook physics to its core.
Ever since Maxwell set the ball rolling, physicists have dreamed of
uniting all of the forces of nature into one fundamental theory: a
theory of everything.
In 1954 Yang was doing some work at Brookhaven National
Laboratory, where he shared an office with Robert Mills, another
young physicist.
Bouncing ideas off one another, they developed a new
generalization of Maxwells equations, now called Yang-Mills
theory.
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The theory produces Maxwells equations as a special case. In

addition to explaining electromagnetic forces, Yang-Mills theory
also explains interactions between nuclear particles in doing so,
it carries physics closer to a theory of everything.
Yang-Mills theory now lies at the heart of the Standard Model of
particle physics. The Standard Model tries to tie together the
electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force, the strong nuclear
force, and all of the subatomic particles into a single consistent
system a theory of everything.
YangMills theory is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems
in mathematics. Anyone solving a Millennium Prize Problem will
be awarded $1 million.
The Yang-Mills millennium problem asks scientists to rigorously
establish quantum Yang-Mills theory and to solve a further YangMills issue known as the mass gap.
Today, more than fifty years after it was born, YangMills theory is
a very active research field in physics.
Other Information
Yang was married to Chi-Li Tu from 1950 until she died in 2003.
He has three children from this marriage. In 2004, he married
Weng Fan.
Although he has been an American citizen since 1964, he now lives
in China, where he is an honorary director of Tsinghua University,
Beijing his fathers old university, and the university where he
studied for his masters degree.

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NEWS UPDATE

Immunotherapy breakthrough now approved as

standard of care for advanced melanoma: (18th
December, 2015)

A first-of-its-kind (anti-PD-1) immunotherapy was recently

approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration as first-line
treatment for metastatic melanomaallowing greater access to
this therapy for patients without having to previously receive
other prior treatments.

Magnesium intake may be beneficial in preventing

pancreatic cancer: (18th December, 2015)

Researchers have found that magnesium intake may be beneficial

in preventing pancreatic cancer. Using information from the
VITamins and Lifestyle study, the study analyzed data on more
than 66,000 men and women, between the ages of 50 and 76,
looking at the direct association between magnesium and
pancreatic cancer.

PTSD resources lacking for nonveterans: (18th

December, 2015)

Researchers report that information and resources regarding

effective therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder are not easily
available for nonveterans, who can be affected by the condition
after crimes, disasters, and accidents. They offer recommendations
for improvement.

Surfing DNA: Enzyme catches a ride to fight

infection: (18th December, 2015)

An enzyme crucial to keeping our immune system healthy surfs

along the strands of DNA inside our cells, scientists have shown
for the first time. The researchers used extremely powerful
microscopy to watch how the enzyme AID (activation-induced

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deoxycytidine deaminase) moves around and interacts with other

molecules.

Childhood concussions impair brain function: (18th

December, 2015)

Pre-adolescent children who have sustained sports-related

concussions have impaired brain function two years following
injury, new research indicates. Over a million brain injuries are
treated annually in the U.S. While organized sports at all levels
have implemented safety protocols for preventing and treating
head injuries, most pediatric concussions still result from athletic
activities.

Candy
games
stimulate
December, 2015)

appetite:

(18th

At least once a week, two thirds of all children of primary-school

age will play an internet game that was created to draw attention
to a brand. Most of these advertisements are for snacks and candy.
Only 6% of these children are aware that such advergames are
advertisements. In the meantime, such games do affect their
behavior, research shows.

Brain imaging technology offers new approach

for studying Parkinsonian syndromes: (18th
December, 2015)

Using a portable device, researchers have identified differences in

brain activation patterns associated with postural stability in
people with Parkinsonian syndromes and healthy adults. The
findings describe the critical role of the prefrontal cortex in
balance control and may have implications with respect to
detecting and treating Parkinsonian symptoms in the elderly.

Why smoking bans may have advantage over

higher tobacco taxes: (17th December, 2015)

If governments want to discourage smoking among young people,

both high taxes and smoking bans do the job but bans may have
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one key advantage, say researchers. A first-of-its-kind American

study found that bans worked best at limiting smoking among
more casual users: Those who smoked less than a pack a day.
Heavy taxes worked best with those who smoked more than a
pack a day.

Unexpected molecular partners may offer new

way to counter inflammatory diseases: (16th
December, 2015)

When overactive or off target, certain cells in the immune system

that normally fight infection instead attack a person's own tissue.
This process fuels inflammation as part of autoimmune diseases.
Now, a study has revealed a new way to curtail these mechanisms
that could shape the design of future drugs.

New 'condensed' grading system shown accurate

for predicting prostate cancer outcomes: (16th
December, 2015)
Using information gleaned from more than 20,000 men,
researchers have affirmed the value of their alternative system for
assessing the likelihood of growth and spread of prostate cancer.
The new grading system, they say, is not only easier to use and
understand, but also more accurate than the long-used Gleason
grading system, and it has the potential to substantially reduce
overtreatment of low-risk tumors.
For detail mail to editor

KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

Viral infections leave a signature on human

immune system

When pathogens infect the cells of the body, the infection sets off a
chain reaction involving the immune system that changes the
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expression of hundreds of genes. Gene expression is the process by

which cells extract information from the genes and render it as
molecules of protein or RNA. Cells have the capacity to express
more or less of each molecule, creating a pattern of expression that
changes in response to external influences -- including infection by
viruses.
Purvesh Khatri, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, and a team of
six other researchers at Stanford identified 396 human genes
whose expression changes in a consistent pattern that reveals the
presence of a viral infection. The pattern of changes, which they
call the meta-virus signature, occurs in a range of viruses and is
distinct from the pattern of gene expression in healthy people or in
people with bacterial infections. The meta-virus signature pattern
of gene expression is also present even before a person has clear
symptoms of infection.
In their paper, to be published Dec. 15 in Immunity, the authors also
described a second gene expression pattern that signals when a
person is infected specifically with the flu virus. This second
pattern, the influenza meta-signature, consists of a change in the
expression of just 11 human genes. The influenza meta-signature
pattern can distinguish flu from other viral infections, as well as
from bacterial infections. It can also identify a flu infection before a
person has symptoms and even reveal whether a person is building
immunity after getting the flu vaccine.
Khatri, a bioinformatician, is the senior author of the paper. Lead
authorship is shared by doctoral student Marta Andres-Terre and
former postdoctoral scholar Helen McGuire, PhD.
Khatri said his team was motivated by the long-term goal of
finding broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, much like the broadspectrum antibiotics that have saved so many people from deadly
bacterial infections. Broad-spectrum antivirals could be used
against dengue fever and other killers, he said.
Waving a red 'infection' flag
The researchers' first step was to look for a general change in gene
expression in response to infection by viruses generally. They
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began by looking at changes in gene expression in a set of publicly

available data. In blood samples from 205 people infected with a
flu, cold or respiratory syncytial virus, the team found 396 genes
whose expression changed in the same way during all three types
of infections, with an increase in the expression of 161 genes and a
decrease in the expression of 235 genes.
The team then found the same pattern in a larger group of blood
and tissue cell samples from 2,939 people consisting of healthy
controls and those infected with a diverse array of pathogens,
including viruses such as SARS coronavirus, enterovirus and
adenovirus, as well as bacteria such as Escherichia coli,
Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and
Salmonella. In the larger group, the team found the same altered
pattern of expression in the same 396 genes among patients with
viral infections.
The meta-virus signature not only identified individuals with an
active viral infection, but also those who were incubating one. By
studying blood samples taken frequently -- every eight hours for
five days -- the Stanford team discovered the meta-virus signature
pattern waving a red "infection" flag up to 24 hours before the first
symptoms. "An individual's gene expression signature changed
before they became sick, so we could predict up to 24 hours before
who was going to show symptoms," said Khatri.
The same high-frequency sampling data also revealed that the
meta-virus signature signal, the one indicating any virus, began
first. Then, a few hours later, the more-specific influenza metasignature signal began in people with the flu. "It seems that when
there is a viral infection, the immune system turns on a general
response to all viruses, followed by a virus-specific response to the
particular virus," said Khatri. "You can imagine a decision tree
where the immune system asks, 'Is it bacterial or viral?' And if it's
viral it turns on the meta-virus signature response. And then it
asks, 'If it's viral, which virus is it?' And then it turns on a
specialized response for that virus."
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Theoretically, the meta-virus signature could be used clinically to

distinguish viral from bacterial infections to determine if an
antibiotic should be prescribed. The Khatri lab has funding to
develop such a test.
The team's work is an example of Stanford Medicine's focus on
precision health, the goal of which is to anticipate and prevent
disease in the healthy and precisely diagnose and treat disease in
the ill.
Is the vaccine working?
The work can also help determine whether someone is responding
to vaccination. "The goal of vaccination is to generate the same
immune response without the symptoms," he said. "If the IMS
response is truly virus-specific, we should see the same response in
vaccination." And, in fact, the Khatri team found that in three
independent studies of flu vaccine recipients, all those judged to
have responded to vaccination by other measures also displayed
the 11-gene influenza meta-signature. Likewise, nonrespondents
showed no influenza meta-signature response. In short, if you see
the gene expression signature, you know the person is responding
to the vaccine.
Until now, said Khatri, no one has found the immune response
that turns on in both the vaccination response and in actual
infections. This paper demonstrates for the first time a
"transcriptional signature" that can be used as a proxy for whatever
immune mechanism is induced by both vaccination and infection.
"We have identified the common signature that links infection and
vaccination," he said.
The work on the vaccination response also added to the
understanding of men's immune response, which is different from
women's. Other research has suggested that men's immune
response to vaccines was somehow suppressed. In previous work,
researchers looked at men's and women's responses on the third
day after vaccination, when women had a strong reaction and men
had none. But Khatri's group found that men were responding
most on the first day after vaccination. In other words, men were
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responding to flu vaccine sooner than women. By the third day,

men's immune response returned to baseline. "The dynamics are
different," he said, "and we haven't been sampling at the right
time."
The Stanford paper also looked at samples from patients with
acute pneumonia. In these patients, the influenza meta-signature
distinguished viral pneumonia from bacterial pneumonia. As
patients recovered, their influenza meta-signatures gradually
returned to a healthy baseline level.
Jeenatara Begum
Assistant Professor
GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS

Human infection with avian influenza A (H7N9)

virus China: (17th December, 2015)

On 11 December 2015, the National Health and Family Planning

Commission (NHFPC) of China notified WHO of 2 additional
laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian
influenza A (H7N9) virus.
Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

National Seminar on Drug and diseases: role of pharmacists and

doctors is going to be organized jointly by the Centre for Advance

Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of
Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and the
Indian Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and Technologists,
Kolkata on 16th January, 2016 at Dr. H. L. Roy Building, Jadavpur
University (Kolkata 700 032)

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DRUGS UPDATES

FDA Approves Basaglar (insulin glargine) for

Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: (16th December,
2015)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Basaglar
(insulin glargine injection), a long-acting human insulin analog to
improve glycemic control in adult and pediatric patients with type
1 diabetes mellitus and in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Read more

CAMPUS NEWS
Dr. Asis Bala got 1st prize in the Oral presentation conducted by
SFE in Jadavpur.
Recived a Grant in aid from Department of Science &
Technology, Govt of WestBengal under the Scheme of Scientific
Project Research & Science Popularization Programme during the
financial year 2015-16 to GNIPST as per details below
Grantee Institution: Guru Nanak institute of Pharmaceutical
Science & Technology
Principal Investigator: Dr Swati Chakraborty
Title of the Project: Identification of heavy metal chromium Cr
(VI) & Nickel (Ni) tollerence bacteria to develop microbial
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.
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Report of National Seminar on Current Innovation in

Biotechnology for Human Welfare:
1. Name of the Institute: Guru Nanak institute of Pharmceutical
Science & Technology
2. Sanctioning Authority: West Bengal State Council of Science
& Technology, Department of Science & Technology, Government
of West Bengal for conducting Seminar for National Science Day.
3. Seminar Topic : Current Innovation in Biotechnology for
Human Welfare.
4.Amount Sanctioned: 30,000/5. Purpose of Utilisation: Celebration of National Science Day (7th
November 2015) One day National Seminar on Current
Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare.
Eminent Speakers from Indian Stastical Institute, Viswa-Bharati
University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vidyalaya, National Institute
of Occupational Health ,Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute,
Directorate of Drug Control(WB) etc. were invited for the
presentation in scientific lecture sessions.
There was scientific poster presentation competition among the
students of different colleges of WestBengal. Total number of
sixty three posters were selected for presentation and best three
posters were awarded .
I. First prize winners Poulami Majumdaer, Indrajit Karmakar,
Suchandra Majumder, Pallab kanti halder from Jadavpur
University, Department of Pharmaceutical Science on Evaluation
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
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Mukherjee, Madhumita Roy, Chittaranjan National Cancer

Institute , The common Indian spice curcumin act as an enhancer
of antitumor agent in Leukemia.
Around 580 delegates from different academic and reserch
institutes attended the day long seminar
Swarangam:
On 9th November, 2015 GNIPST organized the post puja and pre
Kalipuja celebration programme Swarangam.
National Science Day 2015:
On 7th November 2015, GNIPST organized a National Seminar on
Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare, on the
occasion of Science day 2015 on the theme of Science for Nation
Building. Sponsored by West Bengal State Council of Science &
Technology, Catalysed & Supported by National Council for
Science, Technology & communication, DST, New Delhi.
Winners of Intracollege Football Tournament:
Congratulations to B.Pharm final year for their victory in
Intracollege Football Tournament.
Intracollege Football Tournament:
On 9th October and 10th October, 2015 GNIPST has organized the
Intracollege Football Tournament.

EN BIOLET:

On 5th and 6th October, 2015 seminar was held on EN-BIOLET by

Stone India Ltd.
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])
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2nd: Ratul Banduri (B.Pharm, 3rd year)

3rd: Sneham Sen (B.Pharm, 3rd year)
Table Tennis (for Girls):
1st: Sweta Saha (B.Sc [BT], 3rd year)
2nd: Moutan Roy (B.Pharm, 2nd year)
Carrom (for Boys):
1st: Sk. Sajjat Ali (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Sk. Abdul Aslam
(B.Pharm, 3rd year)
2nd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Rajib Singha Roy
(B.Pharm, 4th year)
3rd: Arnab Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2nd year [Pharmaceutics])
and Achinta Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2nd year [Pharmaceutics])
Carrom (for Girls):
1st: Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year) and Rituparna Das
(B.Pharm 4th year)
2nd: Rinita DasBhowmik (B.H.M, 1st year) and Tania Datta (B.H.M,
1st year)
3rd: Sushmita Sen (D.Pharm, 2nd year) and Keya Das (D.Pharm, 2nd
year)
Chess (for Boys):
1st: Sayantan Dutta (B.Pharm, 3rd year)
2nd: Tanmoy Das Biswas (B.Pharm 4th year)
3rd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm 4th year)
Chess (for Girls):
1st: Rituparna Das (B.Pharm 4th year)
2nd: Suchetana Dutta (B.Pharm 4th year)
3rd: Krishnakali Basu (B.Pharm 4th year)
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)
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Chandrika Saha (B.Pharm 4th year)

Swaranjeet Banik (B.Pharm 4th year)
Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rd year)
Ranit Kundu (M.Pharm 1st year)
Susmita Kar (B.Pharm 2nd year)
Md. Nadeem Shah (B.Pharm 4th year)
Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year)
Sunanda (M.Pharm 1st year)
Best Male Model of ASTERICA 2k15:
Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2nd year)
Best Female Model of ASTERICA 2k15:
Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rd year)
Anchor:
Sreejita Roy (B.Sc )
Solo Singing competition:
Sayantan Goswami (B.Pharm 4th year):winner
Arpita (B.Sc) :2nd runner up
CARNIVAL OF CANVASS:
On 4th September the Students of GNIPST celebrated the freshers
party for Masters degree students.
On 4th September the students of GNIPST celebrated Teachers
Day.

ESPERANZA:

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

welcomed in the Freshers Welcome Programme ESPERANZA.
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:
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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:
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)
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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
Atanu Mondal
Arka Khamaru
Ritobroto Paul
Abhirup Dasgupta
Fashion:
Md. Nadeem Shah
Koustav Sarkar
Shaksar Saha
Avirup Dasgupta
Ranit Kundu
Namrata Ganguly
Shreyasee Mitra

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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.

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.
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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:
Date: 27.03.2015
Time: 09:45 am
Venue : GSK Consumer Healthcare Limited, Unit No. 208,
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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.
On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the Reunion
programmeReminiscence Reloaded 2015.

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

What is Thalassophobia?
Answer of Previous Issues Image:
Abnormal fear of snake

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Send

your
thoughts/
Quiz/Puzzles/games/write-ups or any other
contributions for Students Section& answers
of this Section at gnipstbulletin@gmail.com
EDITORS NOTE
It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 1st 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
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.
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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,
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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