HK College of Pharmacy celebrates 6th Scientific Day

Dr Hitesh Doshi, Managing Director, Indeus life Sciences giving the keynote address

HK College of Pharmacy’s, HK Knowledge Base, recently celebrated its 6th Scientific Day, TechCrunch 2014 on the Occasion of World Pharmacist Day. The two-day event had a seminar on ‘Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Discovery Innovations’ along with poster competitions. Both the days were open for participation to all pharmacy and science colleges. Students of colleges across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan, Nasik, Satara and Gulbarga participated in the seminar.

Scientific Day included competitions like model making (18 groups), pharma quiz (14 groups), oral presentation (eight groups), innovative product packaging (six groups), pharma treasure hunt (nine groups), pharma debate (eight groups). Students from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)-Vile Parle, MET College of Pharmacy- Bandra, K M Kundanani College of Pharmacy-Colaba, Dr LH Hiranandani College of Pharmacy- Ulhasnagar and Viva College of Pharmacy- Virar, Oriental College of Pharmacy-Sanpada also participated in the seminar

Dr Hitesh Doshi, Managing Director, Indeus Life Sciences was the chief guest. The day proceeded with the sessions on ‘Lipid Nanocarriers: Trojan horse for Intracellular Delivery’ by Dr Vandana Patrawale, Prof of Pharmaceutics, ICT, Mumbai, ‘Pharmacological Aspects of Herbal Drugs and Modern Medicines’ by Nitin Mahurkar, Prof and HOD Pharmacology, Prof in Charge Pharm D, Matoshree Taradevi Rampure Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Gulbarga, ‘Molecular modelling in drug design and development’ by Dr Evans Coutinho, Prof and HOD of Pharm Chemistry, BCP, Mumbai, ‘Herbal-based Cosmoceuticals’ by Renuka Thergaokar, Chief Executive Officer, ALCOS International.

A total of 53 posters were presented for the competition from different categories of pharmacy field. The evaluation of posters were done in two rounds.

HK College of Pharmacy-Jogeshwari, ICT- Matunga Mumbai, Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Pharmacy, Chembur Mumbai, Dr LH Hiranandani College of Pharmacy, Ulhasnagar, Sandip Foundations, Sandip Institute of Pharmacy-Nasik, Saraswati Vidya Bhavan’s College of Pharmacy- Dombivali, Shri DD College of Pharmacy-Panvel, Rajiv Gandhi College of Pharmacy- Gulbarga Karnataka, Sahyadri College of Pharmacy- Sangola, PSGVP Mandal’s Institute of Pharmacy, Shahada Nandurbar took part in the poster presentation.

ICT students bagged the first prize for ‘Curcumin: A novel phytochemical alternative for alpha synuclein induced Parkinson’s Disease’, the second prize went to Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Pharmacy- Chembur Mumbai for ‘Green Chemistry for a sustainable future’ and the third prize went to HK College of Pharmacy for ‘Psychopharmacolgy- Parasomnia’.

The consolation prize were bagged by HK College of Pharmacy for preparation and evaluation of polyherbal formulation for its wound healing activity’, HK College of Pharmacy for development and evaluation of lafutidine solid dispersion via hot melt extrusion: investigating drug-polymer miscibility with advanced characterisation.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai