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Chandigarh January 15, 2022

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The University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab University is organizing a one week faculty training school virtually on “NEW ERA TECHNOLOGIES IN FORMULATION DESIGN SPACE” from January 17 to 22, 2022 under the initiative of UGC Networking Resource Centre. The course will be attended by more than 70 selected faculty participants representing 21 states across the country.

Present training course has been planned with an aim to provide single platform dissemination on multiple forums of novel drug delivery design, development, and real time translation to plug the bench to bedside/ lab to clinic gap. Program will offer a blend of highly innovative state of the art interactive talks from national and international experts both from the industry and academia coupled with live workshops.

Professor Maria José Alonso, Full Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), SPAIN & Editor-in-Chief, Drug Delivery and Translational Research; Ex-President, Controlled Release Society, will inaugurate the function and deliver the Key Note Address on “Delivery of Proteins and RNA Molecules using Nanotechnology.” Prof. Alonso is a highly accomplished and recognised among the top 10 researchers in the World in Pharmacology (Times Higher Education international ranking, 2010) and appeared on ‘The Power List’ of most influential researchers in field of Biopharmaceuticals (The Medicine Maker, 2020-21). She has h-index of 98 and was Vice-Rector of Research and Innovation of the USC and Visiting Scientist at MIT, Cambridge, US; Univ of Angers, France; Univ of Paris XI, France and is known for her innovative industrial and entrepreneurial expertise.

Chairperson of the Institute, Professor Indu Pal Kaur is the Program Coordinator of the UGC-NRC & Coordinator of the Course, while Dr Vandita Kakkar will be the Joint Coordinator.

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A galaxy of international and national stalwarts with in-house faculty will join us to deliberate during the Faculty Training Program on leading topics. All the stalwarts are not only highly accomplished in their areas of research, but are also credited with innovation, products and spin-offs.

1.       Professor May Griffith, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada

2.       Professor Tejal A Desai, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA

3.       Professor Samuel Gourion-Arsiquaud, TRI Princeton, USA

4.       Prof. Joachim Kohn, Rutgers University, USA

5.       Prof. Bo Michniak – Kohn, Rutgers University, USA

6.       Prof. Sanjay Garg, University of South Australia

7.       Prof. Mansoor M. Amiji, Bouvé Colg of Health Sci, Northeastern Univ, USA

8.       Dr Deepika Aggarwal, Director R&D, iX Syrinx Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

9.       Dr Ashok Kumar, Wayne State University, USA

10.   Dr Vivek Gupta, St. John’s University, USA

11.   Dr Prashant Dogra, Houston Methodist Res Institute, USA

12.   Mr Sachin Kumbhoje, OpEx Accelerator Pvt. Ltd., Maharashtra

13.   Dr Sudip Roy, Prescience Insilico Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru

14.   Dr Parneet Kaur Deol GHG Khalsa Colg, Punjab

Chandigarh January 5, 2022

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Indo-UK partnership development workshop started at University Institute of Engineering & Technology (UIET), Panjab University (PU) here today.

The prestigious workshop is being jointly organised by UIET and Birmingham City University, UK from January 05, 2022 to January 07, 2022 under UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) in Hybrid (Physically/Online) mode with the support of Department of Science and Technology (DST) and UKIERI on the issue of “Solar pump based village microgrids – potential for tackling the energy/water/food nexus in Punjab”.  

The scientists, engineers, economists and political scientists from different Universities of UK and India such as PAU Ludhiana, CCSHAU Hisar, NIT Kurukshetra, PU Chandigarh, Jammu University, Govt. of Punjab, NABARD and BCU UK etc. would participate in the workshop. While following the latest pandemic protocols, few participants from India joined physically whereas remaining from India and UK joined through on-line mode.

Former Advisor World Bank and COO in UN Sustainable Energy for All, Mr Mohinder Gulati delivered the keynote address. Mr Gulati highlighted policies related to various World Bank supported projects such as Direct Benefit Transfer Experiment in Punjab and Rajasthan Study on “Grow Solar, Save Water, and Double Farmer Income”. Consequent upon, the important talk on Solar Power as a Remunerative Crop and SKY Implementation Experience was presented by Dr Shilp Verma, from International Water Management Institute.

Indian Lead Coordinator Prof. Yajvender Pal Verma welcomed the guests and presented theme of the workshop. He also presented a case study related to the technical and economic feasibility of a solar pump based microgrid system in the villages of Punjab. The lead coordinators from UK, Prof. Cham Athwal, Prof. Lynsey Melville presented the context of the workshop related to Village Micro grid.

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The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. J.K Goswamy Director UIET PU Chandigarh. Delegates from UKIERI Miss Henna Jairath, Dr. Jaya Goyal, Prof. Sunil Labroo from New York State University, Members from Punjab State Technical Council and British council were present during the inaugural ceremony. 

Prof. J.K Goswamy Director UIET PU Chandigarh presented his views on the concept of the workshop and emphasis on the practices to be adopted for developing the smart villages in Punjab.

During the next three days, various experts from engineering, economics, Social Science, management start-up, industry and power companies will deliberate upon the issues related to energy/water/ food nexus in Punjab and come out with some practically feasible solutions to address the same.  The focus of the workshop is to address the issues of depleting water level and energy requirement for irrigation pumps in the state of Punjab. This workshop would also explore joint research collaborations with a potential of creating innovations and social impact through industry or society engagement. Workshop would establish new research links with institutions in both countries with the potential for longer term sustainability.