AICTE sponsors staff development programme

EPP News Bureau - Mumbai

THE New Delhi based All India Institute of Technical Education (AICTE) recently sponsored a staff development programme which was conducted by the Department of Pharmacology in Pariyar College of Pharmaceutical Sciences for girls.

The topic of the programme was ‘Recent Advances in Herbal Technology’. While speaking on the occasion emiritus prof K Chinnaswamy, JSS, Ooty, emphasised on the importance of medicinal plants in modern medicine and stressed the need for pharmaceutical scientists to focus on exploration of phytochemicals, according to a press release.

Thiru P V Kannan, managing director, Micromax systems and the chairman, Confederation of Indian Industries, Trichy zone deliberated on the household use of medicinal plants.

The highlights of the programme which lasted for a fortnight included lectures of twenty-one premier resource persons from various sectors of the world of science. These included professors from pharmacy and alternative medicine, technologists from herbal, pharma industries, research scholars and so on.

The release informed more thirty topics ranging biodiversity of medicinal plants, micro propagation of medicinal plants, patenting of phytochemicals to herbal formulations, developing and marketing of herbal products, standardisation and clinical evaluation of herbal drugs etc.