Gurugram, August 9, 2019: The School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Apeejay Stya University, organised Foundation Classes from 5th to 9th August 2019.
5th August 2019: The Foundation classes started with a session on ‘Pharmacy Yesterday & Pharmacy Tomorrow’ by Prof. D.K Majumdar who elaborated the usage of medicine from The Epic ‘RAMAYANA’ (Sanjeevani Booti) to the recent advanced techniques such as ‘Gene delivery’.
6th August 2019: The next day, the session started with a Film Festival wherein students watched the Indian satirical comedy film ‘Peepli Live’. The second session was followed by a library visit to make students aware of different standard books, journals, and e-library.
7th August 2019: The session started with a presentation on ‘Introduction to New Drug Discovery Research’ conducted by Dr. Rani Mansuri & Ms. Deepika Kathuria. They briefed about the journey of Drug Design and Discovery by rational approaches.
9th August 2019: The session was conducted by Ms. Poonam Verma who started the session with a Pharmacist oath and discussed what ‘dosage form’ is all about. The second session was conducted by Ms. Sandhya Dubey on ‘Determination of Blood Group and Identification of Bones’.