Workshop begins on herbal drug challenges at GND University

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 18

A workshop on ‘Herbal Drugs: Issues and Challenges’ was inaugurated at the new FDC (HRDC) building under the aegis of the Faculty Development Centre (FDC) of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU). Nearly 40 participants comprising teachers and research faculty from various institutes from across the country are participating in a week-long workshop.

Prof RK Goyal, an internationally acclaimed pharmaceutical scientist and Vice-Chancellor, Delhi Pharmaceutical & Research University, presided over the inaugural session. Prof Goyal threw light on the history of pharmaceutical scientists since ancient times. Paying tributes to Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, one of the great visionaries and eminent educationists of India, he said that he was the one who introduced the subject of pharmacy as a separate discipline in the university system.

“In fact all the branches of pharmacy, medicine, surgery, diagnostics, etc., have advanced over the centuries. Labelling the compartmentalisation of any discipline as ludicrous, Malaviya emphasised on the increasing significance of the interdisciplinary approach in the academics,” he said.

Workshop coordinator Prof Preet Mohinder Singh Bedi, head of the department of pharmaceutical sciences, and Director, University-Industry Linkage Programme, enumerated the achievements of the university as well as his department.

Of late, the university has also venturing into collaborations with a number of leading uiniversities/institutes of the world in various disciplines, he said.