Conference on ‘Drugs for the Future: Infectious Diseases’ kickstarts at NIPER, Hyderabad

Saw participation from 450 delegates

A conference on ‘Drugs for the Future: Infectious Diseases’ is being held at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), in Hyderabad. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Antimicrobial Drug Discovery: Challenges and Perspective’.

The conference saw participation from 450 delegates and more than 50 members from various pharmaceutical industry, participated and presented their research papers through poster and oral presentations. Delegates from various industries including Novartis, Daichi Sankyo, TCS, Suven Life Sciences, USP, Aurigene, Dr Reddys Laboratory, GVK took part in the event.

The chief guest is Dr Avenkateswarlu, Director, Dr Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad. Speakers who took part in the conference are Dr TS Balganesh, Distinguished Scientist, CSIR, Prof V Nagaraja, Dept of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr JN Agrewala, Chief Scientist, Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh, Anu Acharya, Chief Executive Officer, MapmyGenome, Hyderabad, Dr D Srinivasa Reddy, Senior Scientist, NCL-Pune, Prof PP Singh, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, NIPER Mohali, SAS Nagar, Dr SK Puri, Acting Director, Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow, Prof Diwan S Rawat, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Dr Gopalakrishnan Bulusu, Principal Scientist, TCS Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, Dr Cecilia Dayaraj, Scientist E, Deputy Director, National Institute of Virology, Pune, Dr Ajith Vasudevan, Novartis Healthcare, Dr Mahesh Patel, Director, Wockhardt Research Centre, Aurangabad, Dr Sitaram Kumar, Former Head; Biology, Panacea Biotech, Mohali, Dr Hoshahalli Subramanya, Senior Vice President, Aurigene Discovery Technologies, Dr Biswajit Das, Senior Director, Chemistry, Daiichi Sankyo India Pharma, Gurgaon, Haryana, Dr RS Paranjape, Director, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Prof Benu Dhawan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, Dr Rama Sivasubramanian, Novartis Healthcare, Hyderabad.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai