Prestigious Acharya P C Ray Award for Prof Bhoop

Chandigarh, October 29, 2024: Executive Council of apex pharma body, the Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA), Bengal Branch has decided to confer "Acharya P. C. Ray Memorial Gold Medal Award" on Professor Bhupinder Singh Bhoop. In recognition of his outstanding contribution for the overall development of the profession of pharmaceutical sciences, Prof. Bhoop has also been selected for "Acharya P. C. Ray Memorial Oration Lecture". 

Besides being a Hony. Visiting Professor at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), PU, Dr. Bhoop is currently serving as an Emeritus Professor at a University in Rajpura, Punjab.

The coveted award would be bestowed upon Prof. Bhoop during the inaugural program of 63rd Pharma Conclave and National Pharmacy Week Celebrations on 17th Nov. 2024 at the Satyajit Ray Auditorium, Kolkata. The IPA Bengal Branch selects outstanding pharmaceutical contributors from across the country and awards them gold medal every alternate year since 1962 to perpetuate the memory of a great national figure, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, who founded the first pharmaceutical industrial house in India in 1892. 

At Panjab University, Professor Bhoop has been Chairman of the UIPS (2014-17), Fellow & Member - University Senate & Syndicate (2012-16), Dean - Faculty of Pharm. Sciences (2012-14), and Dean Alumni Relations (2007-11). He has also been the Coordinator of UGC Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Pharm. Sciences (2011-18), and Founder-Coordinator of National UGC Centre for Excellence in Nano Biomedical Applications (2011-2020).  

Globally renowned for his research work on QbD-enabled development of drug nano carrier systems, Professor Bhoop has to his credit about 440 publications, including 16 books, 8 patents (3 granted) and tech. transfers of three nanotech-based drug delivery products to Pharma industry. A widely travelled scientist, he has delivered over 380 invited talks and onsite workshops in India and overseas, thus training thousands industrial scientists from leading pharma industrial houses. He has duly trained over a thousand industrial scientists under his guidance through various onsite industrial training seminars, workshops and scientific forums. He has guided over 110 researchers, including 35 Ph.D.’s and 11 post-doctorates, and has earned research grants of over 7.30 crores from the governmental and corporate sectors. Based on his quantum and quality of the published work, he has adorned among Top 2% of Scientists of the World (by Stanford University, USA), consecutively for six years from 2019 to 2024, on the basis of career-long performance as well as the last one year’s performance. 

His work has decorated Prof Bhoop with numerous awards & accolades like, Leading Educators of World (UK) 2007, Pharma Buzz Personality Award 2008, Shiksha Rattan Puruskar 2008, Innovative Scientist Award 2012 (CIIPP), QbD& Product Performance Award 2012 & 2013 (Amer. Assoc. Pharm. Scientists, USA), QbD Excellence Award 2013 (CPhI-Asia), Outstanding Scientist Award 2014 (SelectBio, UK), Pharma QbD Outstanding Performance Award 2014 (Stat-Ease, USA), BharathiVidyapeeth APTI Pharmacy Teacher Award 2014, Prof Baichwal Oration Award 2015 (ICT, Mumbai), Scientist Par-Excellence Award 2015 (Minitab, UK), Eudragit Award 2015 (Germany), Prof Rai Oration Award 2015 (GNDU, Asr), HT Performer of 2015, Innovative Healthcare Researcher Award 2016 (WWA‎), Name in Science Award (EBA, Oxford, UK) 2016, Prof DVS Jain Best Scientist Award 2018, Global QbD Excellence Award 2019 (Shengie, China), Elsevier Best Research Paper Awards 2020 & 2021, Pharma Lok Excellence Award 2021, Scientific Innovation Award 2023 (CIIPP), Science Distinction Award 2023 (CHASCON), Chitkara University Excellence Award 2023, Lifetime Achievement Award by Punjab Academy of Sciences (PAS), and many more... He has been on the Expert Panels of UGC, NBA, NAAC, AICTE, PCI, DST-SERB, DBT, UPSC, PPSC, UPPSC, Commonwealth Secretariat, and scores of prominent universities in India and abroad.