PU Pharma Scholar Conferred with Prestigious Young Scientist Award

Chandigarh, June 9, 2017: Mr Sarwar Beg, a UGC Senior Research Fellow at University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab University, Chandigarh, has recently been bestowed with prestigious “Sun Pharma Science Scholar Award” by Sun Pharma Science oundation, Gurgaon. The award was conferred upon him by Shri Jagat Prasad Nadda, Union Health Minister of Health, Government of India, and by Mr Dilip Shanghvi, Managing Director, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, India.
The prestigious award included an engraved plaque and a cash prize of Rs.50,000.
The award was bestowed on the candidate for his doctoral research work entitled, “Systematic Development of Optimized Oral Nanostructured Delivery Systems of Cardiovascular Drugs employing Quality by Design (QbD) Paradigms”, conducted by him while at UIPS under the guidance of Professor Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, Coordinator, UGC Centre of Advanced Studies in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Professor O P Katare, Director, Research Promotion Cell, PU.
The said research work entails multifold improvement in the efficacy of cardiovascular drugs when delivered through nanopharmaceutical formulations, the successful outcomes of the same published in several high impact journals of
international repute. Mr Sarwar has recently been employed as a Research Scientist at Jubilant Generics Ltd., Noida.