VES COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR 2014-15

Faculty Achievements
Awards
Principal, DR. (MRS.) SUPRIYA SHIDHAYE has been awarded the 54th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Trust National Awards 2012-13- Research Project of the Year on 11th October, 2014.

DR. RAKESH SOMANI, HOD, Dept. of Pharm. Chem. has been awarded IDMA award on 10th January, 2015 for Best Research Article in the Field of Pharmaceutical Chemistry for the publication in the Indian Drug January, 2014 (Vol. 51 (01)) entitled ‘Synthesis of Some Novel 1, 2, 4 I-Triazole Analogues as Potential Anti-Tubercular Agents’.

Collaboration with National Institute

The grant has been sanctioned of ? 34,00,000/- on the research project entitled ‘Design & Evaluation of Novel formulation of some anti-cancer drugs for metronomic chemotherapy’ for a bioneubator, viz., Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology under ‘Biotechnology Ignition Grant’, BIRAC, Govt. of India. Sanction letter is awaited. The team members are
Dr. Supriya ShidhayeScientific Advisor
Ms. Chaitali Surve Project Co-ordinator {Research student of
Dr. (Mrs.) Supriya Shidhaye for Ph. D.}
Ms. Ruchi SinghMember {Research student of Dr. (Mrs.)
Supriya Shidhaye for M. Pharm.}
Ms. Bhagyashree ParabMember {Research student of Dr. (Mrs.)
Supriya Shidhaye for M. Pharm.}

Research grants received from University of Mumbai

Name of the facultyProject TitleDepartmentAmount ?
Dr. (Mrs.) Swati Mittal, Formulation Development & Evaluation of NDDS, Pharmaceutics, 35,000/-
Dr. Sandeep Zine, Extraction, Characterization & Quantitative estimation of piperine from various plant speciesPharmaceutical Chemistry, 30,000/-
Mr. Vivek Nalawade, A study to understand the bioavailability and bioequivalence in rabbit of a novel multiparticulate formulation of Metformin HCI30,000/-

Industry Sponsored Project

Mrs. Harsha Kathpalia from the Pharmaceutics department & Mrs. Vidhi Bhatia from Pharmacognosy department have been assigned a research project worth ? 3,00,000/- from Emami for ‘Designing and developing of herbal formulation of migraine, body pain and joint pain’.
ICMR Project

Dr. Rakesh Somani has been granted pre-proposal approval for the research project of Indian council of Medical Research. Sanction Letter is awaited the team members are

Dr. Rakesh SomaniPrincipal Investigator, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, VESCOP
Ms. Gaurav DoshiCo-Investigator, Department of Pharmacology, VESCOP
Dr. Swati MittalCo-Investigator, Department of Pharmaceutics, VESCOP
Mr. Pratip ChaskarCo-Investigator, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, VESCOP

Student Achievements

?Participation and achievement in co-curricular activities

M. Pharm. students attended the one day seminar and celebration of ‘Techcrunch-2014’ on theme’ Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Discovery’ at H. K. College of Pharmacy on 27th September, 2014. They also participated in the poster competition, Mrs. Deepali Gangrade was the co-author for the posters presented, VESCOP students grabbed the Second Prize.

Students also participated in AVISHKAR 2014 held at BNCP College of Pharmacy on 18.10.14 and presented a poster under the guidance of Dr. Rakesh Somani & Mrs. Sonali Munj.

19th Annual National Convention of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India was organized at Shri. Shiv Chatrapati Sports Complex, Balwadi Pune, Maharashtra on 28th - 30th November, 2014. Students participated and presented papers under the guidance Dr. (Mrs.) Supriya Shidhaye & Dr. Rakesh Somani.

Udan Festival - part of Continuing Education Programme: 136 Students participated in poster competition, out of which 02 students won prizes - Ms. Anura Gawade for poster on “Child labour” & Ms. Sneha Salian “Marine Biology”. Also VESCOP students won First Prize for skit present on “Child Labour” by Mr. Bhavya Haria Final year B. Pharm.

Sanskriti Sarakshan Sanslka organized a seminar and examination on