Pharma Pharma IkonIkon

ISF College of Pharmacy

(ISFCP) organized National

level Online Pharma Mega Job

Fest 2020 on 8th August, in

which 65 eminent companies

participated and ISFCP re-

ceived 750 registration from

students of Pharmacy Colleges

across India. Out of which 314

students got shortlisted and

placed. The Inaugural event was

graced by Dr. B. Suresh, Presi-

dent Pharmacy Council of India

(PCI), S. Jagjot Singh Sidhu,

Member, PCI Punjab, and Sh.

Parveen Garg, Chairman

ISFCP. The Director and Vice-

Principal of ISFCP were also

present. The event was orga-

nized by the Placement Com-

mittee of ISFCP, which in-

cludes; Dr. Vir Vikram, Dr.

Bhupinder Kumar, Mr. Hem

Raj, Mrs.Vishavprabjot Kaur,

and other faculty members.

Top placement positions were

Research & Development, For-

mulation & Development, Pro-

duction, Sales & Marketing,

Regulatory Affairs, Pharma-

covigilance, and Medical Writ-

ing. ISF College of Pharmacy

received overwhelming words

from Sh. Sandeep Hans DC

Moga over National Job Fest

organized by ISFCP. .

GOVISF COLLEGE OF PHARMACY IS “BR

All INDIA COUNCIL OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION (AICTE) SPONSORED SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM (STTP)

NIRF Ranked 32nd in Pharmacy Category, NAAC accredited “A” Grade college Band “A” Institute by ARIIA VOL 4 ISSUE 3

PHARMA MEGA JOB FEST

AICTE SPONSORED STTP

ARIIA 2020

WORKSHOP/WEBINAR

DIALOGUE

SPER SPRINGERCON2020

ALUMINI MEET

INDEPENDENCE DAY

TRAINING

PUBLICATION

PLANTATION DRIVE

DANCING AND SINGING

COMPETITION

MEDITATION

GANESH UTSAV

Inside this

ACTIVITIES :

MEDITATION AT ISFCP

ISPORE CHAPTER

AWARENESS PROGRAMS

WOMENS DAY CELEBRATIONS

NEW FACULTY AT ISFCP

NEW ACADEMIC SESSION

ONLINE PHARMA MEGA JOB FEST 2020 IN COLABORATION WITH GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB.

AICTE sponsored six days of online STTP on “Training and Excellence with Ethics and Behavioral Sciences” or-ganized from 17th to 22nd Au-gust 2020. The program aimed to develop ethics and values in participants. Among total registered participants, Fifty-nine participants were from twenty-eight Universi-ties, and one was from the United States of America. Col. B. Venkat, Director (Faculty Development Cell) AICTE, New Delhi, was the Chief

Guest at the inaugural func-tion. Prof. Y. K. Gupta, Presi-dent (General Body) All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal and Prof. N. K. Jain, Professor Emeritus, Dr. H. S. Gaur University, Sagar graced the function with their presence. The event commenced with a lamp light-ing ceremony by Sh. Parveen Garg, Chairman ISFCP. Prof (Dr.) G. D. Gupta welcomed all participants. The inaugural address delivered by Col. B. Venkat, and the Keynote

speaker was Prof (Dr.) Y K Gupta. Later, Prof. N. K. Jain also addressed the partici-pants. Topics covered were Ethics in conducting preclini-cal and clinical research, medi-tation, and yoga for body and mind relaxation. Ethics and Behavioral Sciences for better Pharmaceutical Care. Dr. B S Bhoop was the speaker and chief guest on a valedictory day, and the event ended with thanks by Dr. Daisy Arora, coordinator of the program.

Dialogue05: Extending the Dialogue Series by ISFCP, Dr. Charan Singh, Associate Pro-fessor, Department of Phar-maceutics, delivered a webinar on the application of Phos-pholipids in Drug Delivery systems in the field of Nano-technology on 24th July 2020. Dr. Arti Associate from the Department of Pharmacology moderated the session. The session started with a welcome address by the Director of ISFCP. Around 1250 partici-pants viewed this session online. Sh. Parveen Garg

(Chairman) and Dr. RK Na-rang congratulated on the suc-cess of the webinar. Dialogue 03: Dr. Daisy Aro-ra, Associate Professor, De-partment of Pharmaceutics, delivered a session on “Basics and application of Biopharma-ceutics in Drug delivery sys-tem” which specifically de-signed to understand the vari-ous Pharmacokinetic parame-ter of the drug delivery system and their significance in the outcome of therapy. Dr. Shankha Bhattacharyya mod-erated the session for dia-

logue. Dialogue 8: Mr. Sourabh Kosey, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, delivered a session organized a webinar on “Ward Round Participation: A Clini-cal Integration, on 7th August 2020. Dr. Hem Raj moderated the session. Mr. Kosey gave an insight into the ward round and its significance for the practicing pharmacists. The session hosted on the ISFCP YouTube Channel, and Dr. RK Narang, Vice-Principal of the Institute, congratulated the

ATAL Ranking: ISFCP Mo-ga i s ca tegorized as Band “A” Insti tution (Ranked between 06-25) in the category of „Private or Self Financed Col leg-es/Institutes‟ in ATAL Rank-ing of Institutions on Innova-tion Achievement (ARIIA) 2020, announced on e-Release of ARIIA on 18th Aug 2020, by Ministry of Ed-ucation, jointly with MHRD‟s Innovation Cell, and AICTE, Government of India. The

Ranking, primarily based on Innovation Indicators such as IPR, startups, and technology transfers of colleges or Insti-tutes, were considered for the Ranking. Excellence in Teaching Award: Dr. Sankha Battacha-riya, Associate Professor, De-partment of Pharmaceutics, ISFCP Moga, received the “Excellent Teaching in higher Education Award” from Sidra Bahu Udeshiya Vikas Sanstha Maharashtra for his teaching

achievement and his dedica-tion to the profession. MoU: Sh. Neelkamal Dogra, G e n e r a l M a n a g e r o f Polymedical Limited, visited the ISF Analytical Laboratory (ISFAL-NABL CDSCO ap-proved Laboratory) and agreed to collaborate with ISFAL for research participa-tion in the future. ISFCP and Polymedical Limited has signed MoU in the area of drug research and analysis.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

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Tool Based Workshop with Elsevier: ISFCP collab-orated with Elsevier and or-ganized a Workshop, learning Basics of Publishing in Quali-ty journals on Friday, 14th

August 2020. The objective of this workshop was to fa-cilitate participants with knowledge and awareness about the best practices that need to be applied to in-crease their expertise in the successful submission of arti-

cles to high-quality journals. The workshop widely cov-ered understanding research issues, publishing workflow, finding high impact journals, understanding editors' mind-set, writing research articles effectively with best read quality, and citation of arti-cles. Webinar: The ISFCP Moga and Elsevier jointly conduct-ed a webinar on "Innovative

Data Analytic Tools for Pharmaceutical Research" on 25th July 2020, focused on different tools for experi-mental and new entities in drug research. Dr. Alok Shar-ma, Head of Department of Pharmacognosy, moderated the session, and the Key speaker of the program was Dr. Mandar Bodas, Solution Consultant, Research Solu-tions Life Sciences Elsevier.

WORKSHOP / WEBINAR

DIALOGUE SERIES

SPER SPRINGER CON 2020

The international online con-ference, SPER SPRINGER CON 2020, was jointly orga-nized by SPER and Springer Nature on 1st August 2020, Prof. (Dr.) GD Gupta, Direc-tor ISFCP (President, SPER India), welcome to address the audience of the confer-ence on the theme “Adding value in academic book pub-lishing: role of learned socie-ties and international publish-ers”. Other eminent dignitar-ies were present on occasion,

Dr. YK Gupta, AIIMS Bho-pal, Dr. Naren Aggarwal, Edi-torial Director Springer Na-ture, Prof. (Dr) NK Jain from HS Gaur University, Prof (Dr) Bhupinder Singh Bhoop from PU Chandigarh, Prof (Dr) B. Mishra from BHU, Prof. (Dr) Saranjit Singh from (NIPER Chandigarh), Prof. (Dr) Paul Wan Sia Heng Uni-versity of Singapore, Dr. R.S. Prakashan Chief Scientist CSIR, Dr. Madhurima Kahali Editor, Springer Nature, and

Dr. Upender, Secretary SPER, India. Dr. YK Gupta broadly explained about the transla-tion of data into a great publi-cation product. Dr. Naren Aggarwal put light on how springer can help the authors to reach their actual readers. The experts explored various significant topics, and they provided their professional inputs to the event. Modera-tion and thanked done by Dr. Madhurima from SPER.

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E-Alumni Meet and National seminar on “Role of Pharma-covigilance in COVID-19” was conducted on the 6th of July. Sh. Parveen Garg, Chair-man ISFCP, inaugurated the program by candle lighting. The Director, Vice Principal of ISFCP, and coordinator of the program accompanied him. The guests of honor was Dr. YK Gupta, AIIMS Bho-pal, and the Chief Guests of

the program was Dr. Jai Par-kash, IPC Ghaziabad. S. Jagjot Singh Sidhu (Member PCI), Mr. Gopal Sharma (President Macleods Pharma), and Mr. Ankur Bansal Drug Inspector CDSCO were vir-tually present. Dr. Gurfateh Singh, President of the Alumni association, welcomed the audience and explained the proceeding of the meet. Around 800 alumni

attended the meeting at the ISFCP YouTube Channel. New Academic Session: Director ISFCP announced academic session 2020-21 commence on 03.08.2020. The new academic session announcement begins with candle lightning and classes for all courses viz. Diploma in Pharmacy, B. Pharmacy, M. Pharmacy, and Pharm. D conducted virtually.

GUEST SPEAKER/WEBINAR Faculty as Resource Per-son: On 5th July, Mr. Sourabh Kosey, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, appeared as a re-source person in a webinar organized by Bharat Technol-ogy, West Bengal on Topic "Pharmacist on the Frontline: a pandemic response to Covid-19", which was a glance at the role of the phar-macist as Covid-19 warrior during the pandemic Webinar: On 10th July ISF College of Pharmacy conduct-ed a webinar on the topic

“Fundamental Aspects of Research Protocol Design and Alternatives to Animal Experimentation” the emi-nent speaker of this webinar was Dr. Shamsher Singh Ba-jwa, who is working on exper-imental aspects of Neurologi-cal Diseases. Mrs. Sania Grover moderated the session for this webinar. The webinar was hosted on the YouTube Channel of ISFCP and viewed by about 2400 partici-pants. Webinar: ISFCP in collabo-ration with Chaitanya Vikas

Yoga & Nature Cure Centre, Dharwad, organized a webi-nar on “Herbal Drugs and Business Opportunities” on 29th August 2020. Director, Vice Principal ISFCP, and coordinator of webinar Dr. Alok Sharma inagurated the webinar. The key speaker was Dr. S. Badami from Chaitanya Vikas Yoga Dharwad, explain the significance of herbal for-mulation as cosmetics and herbal health products during this Covid-19 outbreak and possible opportunities in herbals.

E-ALUMNI MEET, PHARMACOVIGILANCE CONFERENCE AND STUDENT INDUCTION

ONLINE DANCE & SINGING COMPETITION/MEDITATION

Dance and Singing Compe-tition: The students of ISFCP partici-pated in a dance and singing competition organized virtually in the last week of August. Prof. (Dr.) GD Gupta and Miss Seema Brar was the Judg-es for the event. The winners for Singing were Prabhsimran and Abhijeet Bharti, and the Dance winner was Shreya Jain of Pharm. D. They were awarded with certificates.

Meditation Workshop: was organized at ISFCP in associa-tion with Heartfulness Medita-tion. The trainer Smt. Bhupinder Kaur Sandhu Prin-cipal Govt. Senior Secondary School Ghal Kalan and Smt. Parminder Kaur Toor (Trainer) explained that heart-fulness meditation is a simple and modern approach to medi-tation. She delivered the ses-sions using this modern ap-proach in meditation for stress

management and explained all the five steps of the same. Mrs. Parminder Kaur also explained tips for home meditation. The faculty member learned and enjoyed the meditation meth-ods. Mrs. Amarjeet Kaur asso-ciate professor, from the de-partment of pharmaceutical chemistry, was the Coordina-tor for the workshop, and Dr. RK Narang thanked all partici-pants and anticipated it would be beneficial for all.

A Textbook titled “Human Anatomy and Physiology II” for the second semester of B. Pharm, authored by Dr. Sham-sher Singh, Head Department of Pharmacology published at Paging Publisher ISBN:977-883-946-84365. Book provides insight into the basics of Anatomy and the working of different organ systems. The book is useful for students of Pharmacy, Nursing, Physiotherapy, and other science streams.

A Textbook on “Pharmacy practice” authored by Mr. Sourabh Kosey, Associate Professor, Drug Information Division, Department of Phar-macy Practice, has been pub-lished by Nirali Prakashan, ISBN: 939022550-7. This book includes 21 chap-ters and appended with short questions and multiple-choice questions. The book was pre-pared as per the PCI Syllabus regulation of the B. Pharm course.

Reviewer: Dr. Vineet Rai had completed every module of the certified peer reviewer course by Elsevier researcher academy on Wednesday, 19th

August 2020. The aim of this course is to enrich the partici-pants about the basics of fun-damentals of the peer-review process and the role of the reviewer at a different level of publication products along with differentiation of sin-gle/double/triple and open peer review.

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ACTIVITIES

BOOK /BOOK CHAPTER

Flag Hoisting Ceremony

Independence Day Celebra-

tions:

On the occasion of 74th Inde-

pendence Day, August, 15th

2020, The flag hoisting was

done by Chairman Sh. Parveen

Garg, Er. Janesh Garg, Direc-

tor and vice-principal of

ISFCP in the presence of fac-

ulty and staff members of

ISFCP. Faculty members per-

formed patriotic cultural activi-

ties and sweets distribution to

all present during the occasion.

National Holiday was observed

on this day.

Ganesh Utsav:

ISFCP commenced the cele-

bration of Ganesh Utsav on

August. 22nd, 2020. The event

started with the Sthapana of

Lord Ganesha at the Medita-

tion Center of ISFCP. The

Sthapna of Lord Ganesha per-

formed in the presence of Sh.

Parveen Garg, Dr. GD Gupta,

Dr. RK Narang, and other

faculty members. The chant of

“Ganapati Bappa Morya, Purchya

Varshi Laukariya”, inviting the

God to come again next year-

heard echoing in meditation cen-

tre.

Plantation Drive: The Eco

Club of ISFCP launched a

plantation drive on the occa-

sion of the birthday of honora-

ble Chairman Sh. Parveen

Garg Ji on 13th August 2020,

During this event, the faculty

and staff of ISFCP planted 101

saplings of trees all along the

NH 95 G.T. Road near the

college campus. Prof (Dr.) GD

Gupta, Prof (Dr.) RK Narang,

all faculty and staff of ISFCP

congratulated and prayed for

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Research Paper and Review Paper Publications: July to August 2020

Particular No of paper Pub-lished

Peer Reviewed Impact factor

Research Papers Published in International journal 13 13 31.237

Review Papers Published in International Journal 4 4 12.736

Research Papers Published in National Journal 1 - -

Review Papers Published in National Journal 2 2 -

Total IF 43.973

INTER NATIONAL

Book Chapter Published: July to August 2020

Authors Name of book Chapter Publisher

Prof (Dr.) G.D Gupta Director cum Principal, ISFCP and Dr. Vineet Rai Associate Professor Department of Pharmaceutics

NanophytoMedicine “Concept to Clinic”

Potential of Nano-

Structured Drug Deliv-ery System for Phyto-

medicine Industry

Springer Nature

Prof. Alok Sharma, HOD, Department of Pharmacogno-sy and Dr. Vineet Kumar Rai Associate Professor Department of Pharmaceutics

NanophytoMedicine “Concept to Clinic”

Nano Medicine Based

Phyto-Formulation In Disease Diagnosis

and Treatment

Springer Nature

Mr. HemRaj Heer Mrs. Vishav Prabhjot Kaur Mr. Sandeep Rathor Professor Dr. Charan Singh Department of Pharmaceutics

Nano pharmaceutical

Advanced Delivery Systems

Micro bubbles Used

for Drug Delivery Sys-tem

Wiley Publisher

Dr. Vineet Kumar Rai, Associate Professor and Prof (Dr.) RK Narang, Department of Pharmaceutics

Nanophyto Medicine “Concept to Clinic”

Pharmacokinetics, In-teraction and Toxico-

logical Profile of Nano-phytomedicine

Springer Nature

I S F C P Cordia l l y welcomes the new f a c u l t y

members and wish them all the best. Dr Shyam Sunder Pancholi, Professor and Head of Department Pharmaceutics Dr. Sant Kumar Verma, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceuti-cal Chemistry, Dr. Rohit Singh, Asso-ciate Professor, Department of Pharma-ceutical Chemistry.

Training of students: Vishal Kumar and Satyabrata Kundu, research scholar of the Department of Pharmacology, have been selected for three months of training in a research project at CSIR NEIST Assam Lab. Miss Sobhi Gaba, Research Scholar, Department of Phar-maceutical Chemistry, has been shortlisted in the training program for CSIR-SRTP 2020. Continuing Medical Education: Dr. Sidharth Mehan completed a Continu-ing Medical Education certificate course

at NEJM Knowledge Plus a Self-Assessment & Pain management and Use of Opioids by New England Jour-nal of Medicine on Pain Management and Opioids.

NEW FACULTY MEMBER/ TRAINING

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VISION ISFCP

ISF College of Pharmacy is the fruition of inseminal visionaries and ardent efforts of the founding founder Shri Baldev Krishan who happened to be president of ISF Society Moga. The Socie-ty with the core philosophy being love; friendship, and societal literacy, conceived that dedicated, honest efforts should be made to fulfill and nourish the basic educational needs of the underprivileged youth of this remote area of Punjab.

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