This Memorial Lecture was instituted in 2001 in memory of the former Deputy Director of BITS Pilani who was not only a great teacher of Pharmacy and educational administrator but also a great human being.
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani is an Institution declared as Deemed to be University under Section 3 of the UGC Act.
BITS Pilani which has the reputation of pioneering the online examinations for admissions through the path breaking BITSAT and setting a bench mark in industry university collaborations is one among the top ranking universities towering above the rest in various best college surveys in India today.
BITS offers degrees in various disciplines presently at Pilani, Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad campuses apart from an array of work integrated learning programmes for HRD of a vast spectrum of Indian corporates. The alumni of the Institute who are Proud to be BITSians peaking with Passion Quotient for Alma mater and spread across the globe from Australia to America are the true ambassadors of Brand BITS Pilani.
The Pharmacy Group of BITS, Pilani is one of the few early schools of Pharmacy in India. Established in 1950, under the able leadership of (Late) Prof. M. L. Schroff, Father of Pharmacy Education in India, it has blossomed into one of the most sought after Schools of Pharmacy in India.
For this year, the lecture was held on Friday 09 January 2009 in the Lecture Theatre Complex of BITS Pilani. The function started with welcome address by Dr R Mahesh Pharmacy Group Leader, BITS Pilani after which Dr L K Maheshwari Vice Chancellor BITS Pilani gave a profile of Prof B M Mithal highlighting his contributions in making BITS Pilani as one among the top ranking universities in India today.
Dr R N Saha Dean Educational Development Division BITS Pilani introduced the speaker for the day Dr S K Kulkarni who is a distinguished professor of Pharmacology from University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Prof Kulkarni has been one among the top ten scientists list in India which include names to reckon with such as Dr C N R Rao, Dr G R Desiraju, Dr J S Yadav, Dr G Mehta etc. He has more than three decades of teaching and research experience which include Psychoneuro pharmacology, GABA / Benzodiazepine receptor pharmacology, stress, neurosteroids and epilepsy movement disorders, pain and inflammation, development of herbal psychotropics etc.
In his lecture, Prof Kulkarni focused on the Issues and Challenges pertaining to discovering drugs from Natural Sources and highlighted the fact that India is undoubtedly a destination for Pharmacy and Clinical Research. He also explained in detail the mechanism based discovery of CNS active drugs fro natural sources.
The lecture ended with the award of B M Mithal Memorial Gold Medal for best B.Pharm student for the year 2007 to Nageswari and for 2008 to Sriharita. The CVNHB Gupta Memorial Gold Medal for best M Pharm student was bagged by Lajvinder Kumar for 2007 and Varun Jain for 2008.
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