The Hindu Business Line : Gujarat pharma school to launch short-term courses

AHMEDABAD: State-run B V Patel Pharmaceutical Education Research and Development (PERD) will be launching four short-term certificate courses by year-end in collaboration with National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER).

“We will be launching four short-term courses offering training in clinical trials, operational excellence in pharma, instrumental analysis and quality control and bio-technology drugs by this year end,” Project Director of NIPER Mr Harish Padh said.

The aim is to create skilled work force by providing practical training to students in various facets of pharma industry operation. About 5,250 B Pharm and M Pharm students pass out annually from 85 colleges in Gujarat, he said.

Courses are designed to provide hands on equipment training to the candidates, teach them how to optimise production, train them in quality control measures as per pharmacopeia testing standards, and make them conversant with developing and testing of bi o-technology based drugs, he said.

“The course material is being developed jointly by the faculty of PERD and NIPER,” Mr Padh said. “The course in bio-technology will help the students handle protein and peptide-based drugs, which the Indian pharma industry currently is not so well conver sant with,” Mr Padh said. - PTI

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