INAUGURATION OF SCIENTIFIC CELL & H.K KNOWLEDGE BASE

Venue: HKCP Auditorium
Saturday 7th August 2010

H.K. College of Pharmacy, Jogeshwari has launched the Scientific activity, “H. K Knowledge Base” and a new department, Scientific Cell as innovative concepts at institution level. These are the innovative ideas of HKCP Principal, Dr. Anubha Khale, supported by General Secretary, Mr. Waseem Khan.

The event was organized in auditorium of H. K. College of Pharmacy (HKCP). It was attended by all the students, alumni and faculty members of H K College of Pharmacy and faculty members of H. K. Institute of Management Studies (HKIMMS) run by the Management of Maharashtra Educational Society (MES).

Mr. Ameya Chandavarkar, Director, FDC Limited, graced the event as the Chief Guest. He is working in International Business development division.

Mr. Pandey, Director, HKIMMS was the Guest of Honour.

The event was hosted by the faculty, Miss. Ojaswi Phalke and Mr. Ajaj Ahmad. The function started with the lamp lightening by the Chief Guest, and Sarswati Vandana,

Principal, Dr. Mrs. Anubha Khale gave the vision behind this innovative lead. She also talked about future prospective of HKCP to build a concrete base for Scientific and research activities.

Chief guest Mr. Ameya Chandavarkar, Director, FDC Limited shared his valuable views on responsibilities of Pharmacist and a major role of a pharmacist in the ultimate solution to every health problem. He also gave a vision to the future of Pharmacy in India and the responsibility shouldered by the Pharmacist today.

Scientific Cell as a separate department is a new concept and not a necessary requirement of any educational controlling body like PCI, AICTE, DTE or University.

The Cell would focus to enhance the scientific activities in the institute among the students as well as the teaching staff. It would guide students in preparing for publications, help in identifying newer research areas, keep the updated knowledge of recent advances in Pharma research field, and sourcing funds for Research & Development through various Scientific Bodies.

“H K Knowledge Base” is a platform to exchange knowledge among students, teachers and professional experts. The platform would be used for presenting seminars, workshops, training programmes to the students and faculty. The training programs would include advances in Pharmaceutical sciences, carrier guidance, management skills and personality development to bring about complete grooming of the students to make them a Pharmacy Professional. HK Knowledge Base would act as conduit to develop and enrich the minds of the young pharmacists

H K College of Pharmacy would extend this platform to Pharmacy students of other colleges as well.

The Platform was inaugurated with the presentation by the HKCP faculty, Mr. Manoj Gadhwal and Mr. Ajit Wankhede on ‘Pharma Career Guidance’. The motto of seminar was about the career opportunity for pharmacy graduate. It was two session seminar, in first session Higher Education Perspectives in India as well as in abroad were given as well as competitive exams like GPAT, CAT/CET, GRE/IELTS and GMAT were overviewed by Mr. Manoj Gadhawal. In second session Career Opportunity in Pharma Sector was discussed. Job opportunities for pharmacy graduate in Academics and Industrial area like R & D, Production, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, IPR, Marketing and sales, Logistic, Entrepreneurship were highlighted by Mr. Ajit Wankhede.

Interactive session increased the magnificence of the event.

This initiative would promote the basic, fact finding research at the institute level and also add upon the possibilities of extending the research platform to industry

Pharmacists, their responsibilities and the future of Pharmacy in Mr. Rohit Sadre, President, Student’s Council appealed for continued support and sincere efforts from students in his speech.

We took the opportunity to appreciate the first outgoing batch of HKCP giving hundred percent results in Final University Examination. The Distinction holder students were presented with a token of appreciation by Chief Guest of the day.