65th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress to be held at Delhi, NCR from December 20-22, 2013

The 65th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress will be held in Delhi NCR from December 20-22, 2013. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Pharma Vision 2020-Empowering Pharmacist’. The event will focus on bringing pharmaceutical experts across the globe to a single platform where pharmacy education and practices and their development shall be the main issues for debate and deliberation. Empowering pharmacists implies developing leaders in the sector from diverse backgrounds, who shall provide their invaluable input in the growth of pharma as a profession and an industry.

The first cut-off date for early registration is October 31, 2013, by when members/ delegates planning to attend may register by paying a nominal fee. Efforts have been made for inviting the President/ Prime Minister of India to be the Chief Guests. The venue of the conference is Amity University Campus, Noida, which is an International Campus having all infrastructures for scientific sessions with state-of-the-art multimedia facilities, spacious grounds for conducting exhibitions, hospitality, inaugural sessions and cultural events. The PHARMAceutical EXPO 2013, concurrent with the 65th IPC, will be organised by FICCI.

Around 8000 plus delegates are expected to attend the 65th IPC. There will be plenary sessions, scientific sessions and scientific poster paper presentations. For plenary and other scientific sessions, around 80 speakers are expected out of which around 30 will be foreign speakers. Students can present their research papers in various scientific sessions viz, pharma technology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacognosy, indigenous drugs, herbal formulations and phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, clinical research and pharmacovigilance, biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism, pharmaceutical analysis and quality assurance, biotechnology and biotherapeutics, hospital, community and clinical pharmacy, pharma education and professional pharmacy, drug regulatory affairs, pharma management, pharmacoeconomics and pharmacoepidemiology.

Various scientific symposiums will be held, which are: Presidential symposium on empowering pharmacists; Standardisation of biological products; Advances in regulatory sciences and education; Pharma industry: From here to where; Role of community pharmacist in implementing public health policy; Molecular cardiovascular pharmacology; Pharma policies and export; Empowering pharma students through leadership development; Drug development regulations; Strategies to strengthen practice services.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai