Indian Drug Manufacturers’ Association (IDMA) and Association of Pharmaceutical Analysts (APA) recently organised the 15th Pharmaceutical Analysts’ Convention (PAC) 2012 in Mumbai. The main theme of this year’s convention was ‘Conformance to Emerging Global Quality Standards’. The two-day event saw more than 200 participants including exhibitors from across the country. Officials from US FDA, IPC and past presidents and executive committee members from IDMA participated in the event.
The convention was inaugurated by Dr Kamal Sharma, Managing Director, Lupin, who was the chief guest accompanied by Dr Nitya Anand, First Chairman – SB IPC, Co-Chairman, IPC and Ex-Director, CDRI.
During the PAC, the ‘Young Pharmaceutical Analyst Award 2012’ was presented to Dr Wahajuddin, who is a scientist at Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism Division, CSIR, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow. “The Outstanding Pharmaceutical Analyst Award 2012” was presented to S Somasundaram, who is working as Head, Quality Management, for API Division, MSN Group, Hyderabad.
On the first day of the convention, delegates and speakers visited Piramal Healthcare & Life Sciences. The delegates were received by Dr H Sivaramakrishnan, President, Research & Development, Piramal Healthcare & Life Sciences. The exhibitors interacted with speakers, invitees and delegates at the special interaction session organised on the first day of the convention.
In his concluding remarks, Daara Patel, Secretary-General, IDMA, appreciated the presentations made by all the eminent speakers.
EP News Bureau
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