By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
12th June:- The Experimental Pharmacology
Laboratory (EPL) in Department of Pharmacology, PGI, Chandigarh deals in
Preclinical and Clinical Research has started their website for Public domain
and was officially inaugurated by the Honorable Prof. Jagat Ram, Director, PGI,
Chandigarh & Dr. Y.K. Gupta, Prof. & Head, Department of Pharmacology,
AIIMS, New Delhi in Director’s office. All the research scholars and members
working under the umbrella of Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory were also
present in inauguration function, which highlight the strength and importance
of this EPL and its website.
The EPL was started in 2009 in
Department of Pharmacology, PGI, Chandigarh, under the guidance of Prof. Bikash
Medhi. Since its inception, they had organized and carried out various work in
the advancement of knowledge in drug discovery and Pharmacology. EPL is started
with the mission to foster research on various unanswered research questions in
different specialties like neurological conditions (epilepsy, Alzheimer’s
disease, autism, stroke etc.), cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal
disorders, orthopedic and cancer. Other field where EPL is actively involved
are drug designing by high throughput screening methods and PK-PD modeling. Dr.
M Praveen Kumar in EPL has developed an android application under guidance of
Prof. Bikash Medhi, which could help researchers in making protocol for various
experiments.
Various programs and workshops were
already being conducted by EPL since its inception in the field of
Pharmacovigilance, Good Clinical Practice, Good laboratory practice etc. One of
important workshop, Neurobehavioral training programme was conducted last year
with an aim to develop skill among graduate and post graduate students about
practical knowledge of various advanced techniques which will be useful for
them for their future research career. After receiving positive response from
participants, there is a strong need to start an EPL website, which could help in
providing the information about what is new in the drug discovery and various
training program that will be organized by EPL over a year.
The future potential of the EPL will
be to encourage novel and creative approaches to basic and clinical research
problems and create awareness regarding the drug development in India and
abroad. EPL provides platform for students, residents and faculties to promote
their carrier and ignite their innovative minds by organizing various workshops
and conferences.
EPL has various national
collaboration with important institutes like PGI, Punjab University, Chandigarh
and NIPER, Mohali, and international collaboration with USA and France. EPL has
started with believe that development of research in Nation cannot be possible
without team work which means the ability to work together toward a common
mission with a common vision.
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