Technology must reach the society: Dr Pande

Chandigarh: University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) in association with Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA), Punjab Branch & DST-funded Technology Enabling Centre (TEC), Panjab University, Chandigarh, organized a webinar for the faculty and students under the Expert Talk Series on “Sharing Joy of Experiencing Product Development and Technology Transfers” by Dr Subhash Kumar Pande, Technical Director & Principal Advisor, Ex-Senior Vice President Corporate QA, Zydus, Ahmedabad.
Dr Pande has a vast experience of more than 30 years in Pharmaceutical giants like Lupin, Ranbaxy, Alkem, Glenmark and Cadila. He shared that how experiences gained during Ph.D work helped him a lot in the Manufacturing and Quality Assurance area when he joined the industry. He further added that despite the progress of many ongoing research & product development activities at the academic and Pharmaceutical industry levels, majority of them remain in the libraries or as legacy data due to lack of consistent and scientific approach. He touched upon the key points like need of scale up batch; key and non key process parameters; importance of quality control and quality assurance data. He reiterated his belief that “any technology developed mislays its value, if it does not reach the commercial scale and to the common man". Looking into the current scenario it is the need of the hour that the technology development initiated, should be targeted for successful scale manufacturing to serve the society. Thus, risk-based scientific, continued efforts, encompassing learning from previous failures should be followed & applied, to accomplish the profession and serve the humanity
Earlier, Professor Indu Pal Kaur, Chairperson UIPS & Secretary, IPA, Punjab Branch, extended a warm welcome to everyone. She shared that such talks will broaden the vision of students and research scholars to translate their research into successful technology transfers, for the benefit of the society.
Professor O. P. Katare, President, IPA, Punjab Branch, shared his pearls of wisdom and introduced the speaker.
Professor Manu Sharma, Co-coordinator, TEC, Panjab University briefed the audience about the current technologies available with the University and the various modes of executing research to tech transfers.
A highly interactive Q&A session was held at the end. Professor Bhupinder Singh Bhoop, Vice-President, IPA, Punjab Branch, concluded the event by presenting his valuable views and a vote of thanks.
All the faculty members of UIPS joined the session. More than 200 participants from Panjab University and other National and International Institutes attended the webinar.