Specialists exchanged views and experiences on “various research activities being carried out in the field of drug development in India and abroad as well as various new medicines that are being developed and invented after significant efforts by the researchers”.
The occasion was the two-day national seminar on “Recent Advances in Chemical Approach to Drug Developments” held at the seminar hall of Shri Guru Ram Rai PG College in Dehradun on Friday.
The topics discussed at the seminar were drugs used for the treatment of cancer, contraceptive drugs and anti-malarial drugs. The first day of seminar was inaugurated by Dr US Rawat, vice chancellor, Sri Dev Suman University by lighting a lamp whereas Dr S Farooq, Chief, Himalayan Drug Company was present as the chief guest.
The Dean, School of Science, HNB Garhwal University, MSM Rawat, shared his experiences on the topic ‘lipid Based Value Added Herbal Drug Delivery System for Improving Bio-availability’ whereas Prof Anamik Shah, Saurastra University put light on the topic ‘Industry and Instrumentation collaboration for Academic Research on Drug Development: lesson to learn from few case Studies’.
The specialists in their lecture explained that to introduce a single new medicine in the market, there is an estimated expenditure of Rs 4000 crores and that is why, it is quite a challenging task to introduce new and effective medicines in the market.
He told that only those medicines can be included in the category of effective medicines which are cent percent successful in treating the disease without any side effect of on the diseased part or any other part of the body.
Expressing his views, Prof VA Bourai, Principal, SGRR (PG) College expressed hope that the youth researchers will be benefited from this seminar.
He urged the youth researchers to ascertain their role in the research work of the medicines. He also appealed the govt. to provide grants to such research works which are being done by certain people with utmost devotion in which they dedicate their whole life to carry out certain research and experiment works.
The programme coordinator Dr AK Gupta, programme secretary Dr Sandeep Negi, Dr Rakesh Dhaundiyal, Dr Deepali Singhal, Dr Harsh Vardhan Pant, Dr Harish Chandra, Shyamveer Singh, Dr VS Rawat, Dr MS Gusain, Dr Sumangal Singh and Dr S Rana also graced the event with their presence.