ISF College of Pharmacy,

organized AICTE spon-

sored 6 days online STTP

on training in excellence

with ethics and behavioral

Sciences on 14th to 19th Sep-

tember. Dr. Y. K. Gupta was

Chief guest as well as Dr.

S.H. Ansari, Dr. Swaranlata

Saraf and Dr. Saranjit Singh

were the guests of honor

in this ceremony. Pharmacy

stalwarts presented their

views on topic and digni-

taries has graced the func-

tion. On the completion of

the function Dr. G. D. Gup-

ta has congratulated and

thanked the supportive

team, management team,

Dr. R. K. Narang, Dr.

Sidarth Mehan, Dr. Daisy

Arora, multimedia and

press committee.

VIRTUAL ORIENTATION DAY FOR ALL B. PHARMACY FRESHER STUDENTS

PHARMAIKON NEWS LETTER NIRF Ranked 32nd in Pharmacy Category, NAAC accredited “A” Grade College, VOL 4 ISSUE 4

AICTE Sponsored STTP

Virtual Orientation Day : B Pharmacy

World Heart Day

DST-SERB Research Grant

Webinar, Dialogue, Guest Lecture

Felicitation Ceremony of SPER

Virtual Web Panel Discussion

World Mental Health Day

World Pharmacist Day

Eminent Academic Leader Award

Dynamic Principal Award

Utkrishth Sansthan Vishakarma

Placement

Publication

Inside this issue: All INDIA COUNCIL OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION (AICTE) SPONSORED SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM (STTP)

ISF College of Pharmacy

organized a virtual orienta-

tion program for all B.

Pharmacy fresher stu-

dents. In this event, open-

ing welcome was done by

Dr. G D Gupta (Director-

cum-Principal), he motivat-

ed the students and con-

gratulations. He briefed

about the college activities

and events. Chief guest of

this event was Sh. Parveen

Garg (Chairman), ISFCP

Moga, He presented the

mission and vision of the

institute. All the B. Pharm

fresher students partici-

pated in the orientation

program. Vote of thanks

was given by Dr. R. K. Na-

rang, he directed the stu-

dents to follow the disci-

pline in teaching and learn-

ing process.

Pharma Pharma IkonIkon News Letter

Webinar: On 22nd Octo-ber 20, Department of Pharmacy Practice, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga organized a live webinar in collaboration with Lexicomp /Wolters Kluwar on the topic of “Patient Centric drug information service for reducing medication errors”. Mr. Vikas Arora (Director Infokart India) was a keynote speaker, Mr. Amit Sharma was

the coordinator and Mr. Sourabh Kosey moder-ated the session. 150 student participants at-tended the session. The speaker gave an online demonstration of Lexicomp, with a virtual tour, of rich content and robust features of Lexi-comp drug information services. Software helps to evaluate the drug in-formation services and the good part is that

Lexicomp mobile app works offline too (not dependent on broad-band and mobile con-nectivity). The infor-mation provided on Lex-icomp is updated on dai-ly basis. Significant to mention that 98% of US hospitals work on Lexi-comp. In India too, More than 50 colleges and 100 hospitals are using services.

Mr. Rohit Bhatia, Assis-

tant Professor, ISF Col-

lege of Pharmacy was

awarded with “Pharma

Rising Star Award” in

the Virtual Conference

organized by Shri Balaji

Book Distributors based

upon the theme of

“Pharma Vision 2K25”.

Prof. Dr. Shailendra

Saraf, Honorable Vice

President, Pharmacy

Council of India was the

Chief Guest.

WORLD HEART DAY: On

the occasion of World

Heart Day, the work-

shop was conducted by

ISF College of Pharma-

cy, Moga on 29thSep-

tember 2020, the train-

ing was given on Basic

Life Support, Lifestyle

Counselling, Diet Coun-

selling and Life Coach-

ing. Mr. Sourabh Kosey

gave the training for

Cardio Pulmonary Re-

suscitation to non

teaching staff. The

event was coordinated

by Ms. Amarjit Kaur and

Ms. Rekha Arora.

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

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DST-SERB research pro-ject worth Rs. 35.00 lakhs: Dr. Charan Singh, Associate Professor, De-partment of Pharmaceu-tics, received a DST-SERB research grant for the worth Rs. 35.00 lakhs. Project entitled "Aerosolized Smart Nanocomposites for the Treatment of Drug Re-

sistant Tuberculosis" under the scheme Equi-ty opportunities for Ex-cellence in the Science and Engineering Re-search Board (SERB), DST.

Honored as an Editorial Board Member Dr. Si-dharth Mehan, Associ-ate professor, Depart-ment of pharmacology

selected as an Editorial Board Member in Neuro-epidemiology, Karger Publishers, Switzerland. Journal Impact factor is 2.186 and Cite score 5.50, Indexed in Pub-Med and Scopus. In edi-torial board Panel there are only four candidates from India and faculty of ISFCP is one among them.

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Felicitation Ceremony of SPER Punjab Members: Recently, faculty of ISFCP got elected to office bearer positions, among them Dr. RK Narang as Vice President, Dr. Daizy Arora as Secretary Pun-jab, Dr. Pooja Chawla as President and Dr. Sukhbir Kaur as Vice Present of Women Forum of Society of Pharmaceutical Educa-tion and Research. To celebrate this achieve-ment, College organized a felicitation ceremony.

Chief Guest of the event was Sh. Parveen Garg (Chairman) ISFCP, and the keynote speakers were Dr. G.D. Gupta (Director-Cum-Principal), Dr. R.K. Narang (Vice-Principal), Dr. S.S. Pan-choli (HOD, Department of Pharmaceutics), ISFCP.

Guest Lecture: Mr. Sourabh Kosey, Associ-ate Professor, ISF Col-lege of Pharmacy, Moga delivered lecture on “Clinical Data Manage-

ment with overview on Post clinical Phases” in AICTE New Delhi spon-sored online STTP based on theme “Importance of Research methodolo-gy in clinical research and Pharmacovigilance” at Institute of Pharmacy PSIT, Kanpur on 29 Oct 2020. The lecture was very helpful to upgrade knowledge and train fac-ulties about the roles of clinical pharmacy in phar-maceutical sector world-wide.

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Virtual Web Panel Dis-cussion: ISF College of Pharmacy organizes a virtual web panel dis-cussion and topic of dis-cussion was “Expectation of indus-try from academia”. In this event, Dr. G.D. Gup-

ta (Director-cum-Principal) ISFCP, extend-ed warm welcome to the panelists. Chief guest of the event was Sh. Parveen Garg (Chairman), and panel-ists were Dr. Gaurav Goyal, Dr. Sunil Gupta,

Mr. C.A. Krishnamurthy Rao, Ms. Amita Bhave, and Mr. Satyanarayna Gupta. The discussion was moderated by Dr. S. S. Pancholi. More than 250 national partic-ipants attended the event online .

Awareness Program on

Intellectual Property

Rights: Government of

India, Ministry of MSME

MSME-Development In-

stitute, Ludhiana was

invited for an interactive

webinar on “Awareness

Program on Intellectual

Property Rights” in col-

laboration with ISF Col-

lege of Pharmacy, Moga

on 9th October 2020 at

3:30 pm. Chief guest Dr.

Balwinder Singh (IPR)

discussed about aware-

ness and process of pa-

tent.

World Mental Health

Day: Dr Sumesh Khanna

MD shared tips for good

mental health on the

occasion of World men-

tal Health Day. Event

was streamed live on

YouTube Channel of ISF

College of Pharmacy,

Moga, Punjab, India. Dr

Sumesh provided meth-

ods to control the stress,

adviced suitable diet for

good mental health, and

also signifying effect of

sleep on mental health.

Moderator was Mr.

Sourabh Kosey

E-Parivartan 2020: ISF

College of Pharmacy,

Moga organized E-

Parivartan 2020 on 30th

october 2020 for fresh-

ers. It was an innovative

way, where everyone

got connected and en-

joyed the event with full

enthusiasm even from

distant places inspite of

COVID-19 situation. The

event was inaugurated

by Chairman Sh. Praveen

Garg, Secretary Er.

Janesh Garg, Isfal Direc-

tor Dr. Muskan Garg,

Director-cum-Principal

Dr. G.D. Gupta, Vice-

Principal Dr. R.K. Narang

and HOD’S of all the de-

partments by enlighten-

ing the lamp. The event

was coordinated by Mrs.

Seema Brar and attend-

ed by more than 100 stu-

dents online. Students

and faculties of ISFCP

participated actively in

different activities like

singing, poetry, and kavi

Sammelan, Skit by Dr.

R.K. Narang was mes-

merizing. Special dance

performances were giv-

en by non-teaching staff

too.

PG Syllabus Committee

members: Recently: PCI

of India nominated Dr.

G.D. Gupta Director-cum

-Principal of ISF College

of Pharmacy as member

of PG Syllabus commit-

tee.

Durgashtami and Ram

Navmi: Durgashtami and

Ram Navmi was cele-

brated by ISF College of

Pharmacy on 24th Octo-

ber. Sri Durga Saptashtai

was recited in the tem-

ple of ISFCP premises.

On this occasion, Ga-

napati Pujan, Navagraha

Pujan, Kalash Pujan and

Jyoti Pujan were per-

formed in a religious

way by Pandit Ram

Chandra ji. The prayers

of Durga Saptashati

were chanted in which

college Chairman Sh.

Praveen Garg, Secretary

Er. Janesh Garg, Dr.

Muskan Garg, Dr. GD

Gupta, Director-cum-

Principal, Dr. RK Narang,

Vice Principal, staff and

students participated in

Maha Aahuti after the

Yagna. Kanjak was wor-

shiped and prasad was

distributed.

EVENTS

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Honor @ ISFCP: Former

DGP arrived exclusively

at the College of Phar-

macy, Moga's premier

educational institution

on 24th October 2020.

Former D.G.P. S.

Paramdeep Singh Gill

was specially honored by

Sh. Praveen Garg, Chair-

man of the institution.

On this occasion, former

D.G.P. S. Paramdeep

Singh Gill appealed to

the Punjab government

to immediately pay at-

tention to the deterio-

rating situation in Pun-

jab. The services deliv-

ered by Former D.C. Mo-

ga Harmanvir Singh Gill

were greatly appreciat-

ed. He gave a memento

to SSP and felicitated

him for his services dur-

ing Covid-19. On this oc-

casion, former D.G.P.

Son of S. Sohraj Singh

Gill, former councilor

Krishna Sood, Chairman

Shri Praveen Garg, ISF

College of Pharmacy,

Sanjit Singh Sunny Gill,

NRI Sabha President Rai

Singh Gill were present

at the premises of ISFCP.

EVENTS

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Boost Immunity for

healthy life: ISF College

of Pharmacy Moga, Pun-

jab organized an online

declamation contest for

B. Pharm, D. Pharm,

Pharm. D students. Title

of the contest was

“Boost the Immunity for

the Healthy Life” it was

coordinated by Sudhir

Kumar, Asst. Professor,

ISFCP, Moga. In this

event students submit-

ted video recording of 3-

4 minutes presenting

natural ways to boost

the immunity. Event was

organized on 9th Sep-

tember 2020.

Dr. Vineet Rai hourned

as academic editor of

PLOS ONE (a journal of

public library of science

i.e. PLOS group) impact

factor 2.75 indexed in

Sci, Scopus, Web of Sci-

ence.

National Webinar in col-laboration with TLF a Global school, Moga:

ISF College of Pharmacy organized a virtual na-tional webinar on “How to read like a writer”. In this event opening wel-come was given by Dr. GD Gupta (Director-cum-Principal). Key note speaker Dr. Sneha Shar-ma, who is renowned writer, voice artist and visiting faculty from Re-naissance College of Commerce and Manage-ment, Indore talked

about techniques on writing and discussed important skills needed for writing a book.

Dialogue:

A dialogue featured a motivational discussion

by Dr. GD Gupta on *जियें तो जियें कैसे* on 23rd Oc-

tober 2020. The seminar was a part of “a series of talks organized by IQAC-ISFCP”. The session was focused on stress free life. 18 states, 8 countries and 450 people partici-pated in the session.

Most of the questions were related to stress, happiness, health and financial issues. The Co-ordinators of the session were Dr. Sidharth Mehan (Associate Professor, De-partment of Pharmacolo-gy) and Dr. Daisy Arora (Associate Professor, de-partment of Pharmaceu-tics) was the moderator of the program. At the end, Dr. GD Gupta was honoured by the worthy chairman of ISFCP Sh. Parveen Garg Ji, Er. Janesh Garg and Dr. RK Narang .

WORLD PHARMACIST

DAY: ISF College of Phar-

macy, Moga celebrated

World Pharmacist Day

on 25th September 2020.

with an objective to en-

courage and educate fu-

ture pharmacists, as they

play a great role in re-

search and development

of medicines. Prof. (Dr.)

G.D Gupta, Director-cum-

Principal, stated that

pharmacists played an

integral role in the

healthcare team espe-

cially when the country

was reeling under the

Covid pandemic and de-

liberated upon the role

of pharmacists in trans-

forming global health.

Hindi Divas Celebra-tions: Hindi Diwaswas celebrated on the 14th of September, to commem-orate the adoption of Hindi in Devanagari script as one of the offi-cial languages in differ-ent Hindi speaking states of India. The speakers elaborated on im-portance of Hindi and its rising popularity.

Dynamic Principal Award: Prof Dr. G.D. Gupta, Direc-tor-cum-Principal of ISF College of Pharmacy, Mo-ga, Punjab was awarded with "Dynamic Principal Award" in the presence of Prof. Dr. Shailendra Saraf, Honorable Vice President, Pharmacy Council of In-dia. Virtual Conference on the theme of “Pharma Vision 2k25” organised by

Shri Balaji book distribu-tion 27th September, 2020. Reviewer: Dr. Shamsher Singh Bajwa, Head De-partment of Pharmacolo-gy, ISF College of Pharma-cy, Moga, Punjab was awarded with the Certifi-cate Of Reviewing in field of neuropharmacolgy by ELSEVIER PhD Fellowship: Mr. Khadga Raj and Mr.

Anupam under the guid-ance of Dr. Shamsher Singh (HOD) Department of Pharmacology was se-lected for fellowship as SRF with stipend of 32000 per month by ICMR. Dr. G.D. Gupta Director-cum-Principal and Dr. R.K. Na-rang Vice-Principal con-gratulated them for the achievement.

Placement of Students:

ISF College of Pharmacy

Organized a campus

placement for students

and four students (Ragini

Kumari at 7 lakh per an-

num, Vishesh Singh,

Gaurav Mishra and Sushil

Kumar Singh at 3.5 lakh

per annum) got placed in

Psychotropic India Ltd.

Guest Lecture: Mr. Amit

Sharma HOD, Depart-

ment of Pharmacy Prac-

tice, ISF College of Phar-

macy, Moga invited as

guest speaker by Institute

of Pharmacy, PSIT, Luck-

now. Mr. Amit Sharma

delivered lecture on

“Detailed Discussion on

SPSS” in AICTE New Delhi

-sponsored online STTP,

based on theme

“Importance of Research

methodology in clinical

research and Pharma-

covigilance” at Institue of

Pharmacy PSIT, Kanpur

on 29th October 2020. This

lecture was very helpful

for upgrading knowledge

and training faculties

about the intense role of

clinical research in the

pharmaceutical sector

worldwide.

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AWARDS

PLACEMENT /GUEST LECTURE

Eminent Academic leader: On 13th September, Dr. G.D. Gupta, Director, ISF College of Pharmacy, Mo-ga received “Eminent Aca-demic Leader Award 2020" by International Institute of Organizational Re-search Academy for the continue work in educa-tion and research. Apart from these, he is also working as a motivational speaker and also enlighten

students with there scien-tific views. He is also se-lected as a Chairman of Board of Studies in IKG-PTU. He is president of Al-cohol-Free Society and Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research. All these achievements leads him to this eminent award. Utkrishth Sansthan Viswa karma Award: on 17th Sep-tember, on basis of online

teaching and learning pro-gram during Covid-19 ISF College of Pharmacy was awarded with 3rd prize in Award ceremony of Utkrishth Sansthan Vishwa karma Awards 2020. The award was involved in cat-egory-7, which is for providing online teaching and learning programme to nearby college or school students.

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Research Paper and Review Paper Publications: September - October, 2020

Particular No of paper Published

Peer Reviewed

Impact factor

Research Papers Published in International Journal 5 5 6.087

Review Papers Published in International Journal 6 6 17.73

Research Papers Published in National Journal - -

Review Papers Published in National Journal -

Total IF 11 11 23.817

ONLINE LECTURE

PUBLICATIONS

Online Lecture: Dr. Ajay J. Khopade, Vice President, Research Scientist

Sun Pharma, Vadodara delivered lecture online on research in industry

at the ISF College of Pharmacy on 24th October, 20. More than 250 can-

didates had registered and the program was viewed by 1000 plus on

ISFCP You tube channel. The Coordinator of this program, Dr. S.S Pan-

choli, said that Dr. Ajay J. Khopade has been working as a scientist in

Sun Pharma for two decades, the platform technologies discovered by

him are very popular in cancer drug therapy all over the world. Partici-

pants were excited to listen to his very informative talk.

FELICITATION OF DR. G.D. GUPTA FOR *जियें तो जियें कैसे*

ISF College of Pharmacy

G T Road Ghal Kalan Moga

Pin Code:142001

Phone: 9878696688,

8725055460

Email: director.isfcp84@gmail.com

www.isfcp.org

Say No to Drugs

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 Society 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.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Hanuman Chalisa Paath: Hanuman Chalisa Paathwas held on 13/10/2020 at 4:30 p.m. onwards at Maa Durga Temple, ISFCP Campus. All faculty members were pre-sent.