Admission Open 2019-20

• The Directorate of Research (DoR), SMU conducted a Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Emerging trends and prospective goals of natural products in nano-medicine” on the 21st-Spetember-2022. . The FDP was as part of the week-long celebration of the birthday week of SMU’s founder Pro-chancellor, Padma Bhushan awardee, Dr. Ramdas Pai.
• The program had international speakers: Dr. Veeranoot Nissapatorn (Walailak University, Thailand); Professor Subha Bhassu and Dr. Chandramathi S. Raju (University of Malaya, Malaysia); and national speakers ,Dr. Ajoy K. Varma (NITRD, New-Delhi); Dr. Madhu Gupta (DPSRU, New-Delhi); Professor Bidita Khandelwal (SMIMS, SMU); Professor Nayan K. Bhattacharyya (SMIT, SMU) and Dr. Joydeep Biswas (SMIT, SMU). The program was attended by many faculties, researchers and scholars from SMIMS, SMIT, (offline ) and online participants from SRM university, Sikkim State Council Of Science and Technology; AIIMS (Bhopal), Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research Bhilai, CG, SAGE University Indore, School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara (Punjab), Shija Academy Of Health Sciences (Manipur) and University of Tasmania (Australia) and Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). A total of participants registered and attended 102 offline and 135 online.

The topics covered were;

1. Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research - Need of the hour- Prof. Dr.Bidita Khandelwal, Department of Medicine, SMIMS, Sikkim Manipal University, India
2. Shrimps as model to understand host-pathogen-environment- Prof. Dr. Subha Bhassu, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Malaysia
3. Bioactive compounds from medicinal plants- Prof. Dr. Nayan Kr. Bhattacharyya Department of Chemistry, SMIT, Sikkim Manipal University, India
4. Acanthamoeba Keratitis: from Environment to Nanotechnology- Dr. Veeranoot Nissapatorn- School of Allied Health Sciences, Walailak University, Thailand
5. \Medicinal plants as immune booster against Dengue virus- Dr. Chandramathi S Raju, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia
6. Properties and Applications of Nanomaterials, Dr. Joydeep Biswas, Dept. of Chemistry, SMIT, Sikkim Manipal University, India

• The FDP has been awarded 02 credit points to participants and 03 credit points to resource faculty by Sikkim Medical Council The main purpose of the program was to emphasise the importance of natural products in medicine. The incorporation of nanoparticles into the delivery system for natural products have been a major advance in the efforts to increase their therapeutic effects. The FDP aimed to explore the emerging trends and prospective goals of natural products in nano medicine and embark on Multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.