Solan, August 21
Shoolini University will host a seven-day long Synergistic training programme from Monday on Utilising the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure (STUTI). It is being hosted by Shoolini University and supported by the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (ICT), an initiative by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India.
The training programme will be hosted by Shoolini University’s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in collaboration with the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology.
Dr. Deepak Kumar, Associate Professor School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the host institute coordinator, DST, ICT, Shoolini University elaborated that this programme focuses on “recent approaches and techniques in drug design and drug discovery”. It will cover practical exposure to instrumentation including high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC), Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Sodium dodecyl-sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS PAGE), Gas-liquid chromatography, Acta purification system, and other instruments.
Participants from different institutions from all over India, which include postgraduates, faculty members, scientists, research scholars, and industry personnel in research and development, will actively participate in this program. Several speakers from prominent institutes are invited, including Prof. Dulal Panda (Director NIPER-Mohali), Dr. Sanjeev Khosla (Director, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh), Padma Shri Prof. RC Sobti (Professor, Dept of Biotechnology, Punjab University and Ex Vice Chancellor, Punjab University, Chandigarh) and speakers from a different premier institutes like IIT, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, AIIMs, NABI, and others. Prof. Prem Kumar Khosla Chancellor, Shoolini University and Prof. Atul Khosla Vice-Chancellor, Shoolini University congratulated the faculty and students for hosting this programme.
DST- STUTI is Government of India’s scheme on ‘SynergisticTraining programms Utilizing the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure’ (STUTI) is intended to build human resource and its knowledge capacity through open access S&T Infrastructure across the country. As a complement to the various schemes of DST funding for the expansion of Research and Development Infrastructure at academic institutions, the STUTI scheme envisions a hands-on training programme and sensitization of the state-of-the-art equipment as well as towards sharing while ensuring transparent access of S&T facilities.
