National Seminar and workshop on New Horizons in Drug Design

Ahmedabad, Mar 30, 2015  – L.M. College of Pharmacy organized a National Level Seminar and Workshop on “New Horizons in Drug Design” from 1^st to 3^rd March, 2015. The function was inaugurated by Chief Guest Dr. C. J. Shishoo and Guest of Honor Dr. Andy Morley . Key note address was given by Dr. Andy Morley on Drug discovery: Challenges and opportunities.

There were different scientific sessions by eminent speakers. Dr. P. C. Jha delivered his talk on “Recent advances in Computational structure based drug design: Challenges and opportunities”. Dr. Pathik Brahmkshatriya spoke on “A systematic approach on docking and virtual screening” and also shared his expertise in “Visualization/manipulation of molecular structures – Key to successful drug design” by a demonstrative session. Dr. Nilesh Dagia gave an over-view on “Life Sciences Innovation at O2h”. More than 100 participants were present in the seminar. The day ended with concluding talk by the organizing secretary Dr. Mahesh T. Chhabria and vote of thanks by coordinator . The workshop on 2^nd and 3^rd March was organized by Schrodinger. Selected 35 delegates from various colleges participated for the workshop. Dr. Ravi kumar and Mr. Vinod demonstrated various Schrodinger tools like Quikprop (ADME property calcu-lation), Canvas (QSAR), Phase (Pharmacophore modeling) and Glide (Rigid and Induced-fit flexible docking). At the end of the event all delegates were overwhelmed by the information gathered from the expert speakers. They were thankful to the organizing committee for providing a platform for such an event. CCI Newswire