Achievements

Students of AIP are always encouraged to participate in various festivals, competitions and conferences to develop a healthy and competitive spirit. Students have brought many laurels to the institute during the previous academic sessions.

  • Shivam Yadav (Final year B.Pharm student) received first prize in National Poster Presentation Competition on “Developmental Challenges of Carbon Nano Tubes as a Vaccine Delivery” under the guidance of Dr. Parmesh Kumar Dwivedi.
  • Michael (Final year B.Pharm student) received runners-up trophy at the State round of National Elocution Competition organized by Indian Pharmaceutical Association on 11th October 2017.
  • Abhishek Nayak (B Pharm 2014-18 Batch) had an early joining as Field Sales Officer at Maxzimaa Pharmaceuticals Private Limited, Gorakhpur. Within three months  of joining, he was adjudged as star performer and received best sales award as a fresher.

Abhishek Nayak (B Pharm 2014-18 Batch)

  • Ms. Agrima Srivastava and Mr. Shivam Yadav, students of M. Pharm (Pharmacology) (Second Semester), bagged second prize for making a poster titled ‘Novel Theraputic Target for Neuro-degenerative Disorder’ under the guidance of Dr. Himani Awasthi in ‘SPIRIT 2018’, Annual All India Student's Conclave and a National Seminar organized by the Pharmaceutical Society of IIT (BHU) Varanasi during 3-4 February in 2018 .

Chandragiri Siva Sai, M.Pharm. (Pharmacology)

  • Chandragiri Siva Sai, a student of M.Pharm-Pharmacology, co-authored a review paper titled “Natural Products for the Management of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Special Focus on Nanoparticles Based Studies” that was published by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (Scopus & Web of Science indexed journal, Impact factor: 6.684 & CiteScore: 2.7) on 5 Nov' 2021
  • Chandragiri Siva Sai, a student of M.Pharm-Pharmacology, received II prize in 'Plant Identification Contest' organized by Amity Institute of Photochemistry and Phytomedicine (AIP&P), Noida on 5 September 2021.
  • Chandragiri Siva Sai, a student of M.Pharm-Pharmacology, got certified by the ELSEVIER for “Using proper manuscript language and received certification from the World Health Organization (WHO) for the “Vaccine Safety Basics” and from the COPE for “Introduction to Publication ethics”.
  • Selected as Drug Discovery ambassador for Drug Discovery Challenge/Hackathon for development of anti-Covid-19 molecules, an initiative by the MHRD Cell, PMO, Government of India.

Devesh Mishra, M.Pharm. (Pharmacology)

  • Devesh Mishra, a student of M.Pharm-Pharmacology, got selected to collaborate with John Kelly on the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry’s Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) on 26th Aug 2021.
  • Devesh Mishra, a student of M.Pharm-Pharmacology, got selected as a Member of the European Students' Association for Cultural Heritage on 20 June' 2021

Apoorva Singh, M.Pharm. (Pharmaceutics)

  • Apoorva Singh, Kalpana Pandey, students of M.Pharm-Pharmaceutics, filed a patent titled “A formulation of Ximenynic acid enthused nanolipoidal system for Dermatological disorders and its method”.

Shaik Shafiulla, M.Pharm. (Pharmacology)

Rishabh Gupta, M.Pharm. (Pharmaceutics)

Aditi Singh, M.Pharm. (Pharmaceutics)

  • Shaik Shafiulla, a student of M. Pharm.-Pharmacology (Batch: 2019-2021) got an opportunity to work as a Project Associate in the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) which is an Indian fundamental life science research establishment located in Hyderabad that operates under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The topic of his project is “Regulation of axonal growth and regeneration following spinal cord injury”.
  • Shaik Shafiulla, and Chandragiri Siva Sai, students of M.Pharm-Pharmacology and Rishabh Gupta, Shweta Raj Rajeshwari, Aditi Singh, Ragini Singh, students of M.Pharm-Pharmaceutics, got the internship at CSIR - Summer Research Training Program (CSIR-SRTP) 2020 Online organized by CSIR-NEIST in June-Aug' 2020.
  • Agu Stanley, a student of B.Pharm V sem, got selected by the team Old School ballers to play a Semi-Professional League (Streetball League) in Mumbai

Hina Fatima

Zeeshan Ahmad

  • Ms. Hina Fatima, an alumnus of Amity Institute of Pharmacy (AIP) and B. Pharm (Final Year) student Mr. Zeeshan Ahmad have established a private marketing- based Pharmaceutical Company "LIMAN PHARMACEUTICALS PRIVATE LIMITED” on August 6, 2021. Ms. Hina Fatima is the Managing Director and Co-Founder while Mr. Zeeshan Ahmad is the Co-Founder of the firm. The prime focus of the company is on making available quality pharmaceutical products at affordable costs to all.

A team of Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, comprising of 31 students participated in Annual Sports Fest organized by IILM Academy of Higher Learning, Vinay Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow during 30 and 31March 2022.Teams from various other universities and colleges from all around Lucknow participated in various sports event during the fest. Prince Jain, student of B.Pharm 2nd sem along with his team won the gold medal in the basketball game and brought laurel to the institute.

  • Mr. Devashish Jena (M.Pharm Final year student) participated in oral presentation in National Seminar FBMI (Functional Biology & Molecular Interactions) 2023, on the topic “Engineering nano lipid carriers of natural compounds for ameliorating the alleviation of imiquimod (IMQ) induced psoriasis in the mouse model” under the supervision of Dr Nimisha.
  • Shrishti Shandily and Vatsalya, students of Pharm.D. IV Year, co-authored a review paper titled “Growth Hormone Excess: Implications and Management” that was published by Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders Drug Targets (Scopus & Web of Science indexed journal, Impact factor: 2.387) on 12 Oct 2022.

Ms. Shrishti Shandily, a student of Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)-IV Year, secured 2nd position and received a cash price for Best Performance for her oral presentation on the topic: “ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP: STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH” at 1st International AMR Conference on “Antimicrobial Resistance and Gut Microbiome: Rationalizing Prescriptions in Clinical Practice” at Metro College of Health Sciences & Research, Greater Noida organized in association with the Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA)- UP State Branch, held on 3rd and 4th March 2023 under the guidance of Dr. Nimisha Srivastava, Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Pharmacy.

  • Ms. Saika Samana, a student of M. Pharm (Pharmaceutics) IV semester co-authored a review paper titled" Vaccines: An Important Tool for infectious Disease", with her guide Dr. Nimisha, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics that was published by Recent Advances in Anti-Infective Drug Discovery (Scopus cite score 2.4) on 30 November 2022.
  • Ms. Deblina and Ms. Aanchal Singh, students of BPharm VIII semester with their guide Dr. Nimisha, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics have published a book chapter entitled "Alginate-Based Drug Delivery Systems for Respiratory Disease" in the book entitled “Natural Polymeric Materials based Drug Delivery Systems in Lung Diseases" Springer Nature book (ISSN 978-981-19-7655-1, Page no. 361-379).

Abstract

Topic- Novel Therapeutic Target for Neuro-degenerative Disorder by Agrima Srivastava, Shivam Yadav and Dr Himani Awasthi (Guide)

Identification of therapeutic targets based on novel mechanism approach is urgently needed for neuro- degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and many more. Limited knowledge of the molecular basis of disease, pathogenesis is a major hurdle in the identification of drug targets and development of therapeutic strategies for the largely prevalent disorders. Inhibition of the stress-induced endoplasmic reticulum kinase (Protein Kinase RNA like endoplasmic reticulum kinase) may be a potential therapeutic strategy for treating neurodegenerative disorder.

These diseases are usually classified as neuro-degenerative disease that represents a heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by progressive structural or functional neuronal loss or both. Treatment of these disorders is a great challenge due to the prevalence of such diseases and the severity of clinical symptoms.

 

Agrima Srivastava

Shivam Yadav

  • Ms. Nidhi Mishra and Sonam Patel, students of M. Pharm (Pharmacology) second semester, bagged third position for making a poster titled ‘Recent Advances in Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease’ under the guidance of Dr. Himani Awasthi in ‘SPIRIT 2018’, Annual All India Student's Conclave and a National Seminar organized by the Pharmaceutical Society of IIT (BHU) Varanasi during 3-4 February in 2018.

Abstract

Topic - Recent Advances in Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease by Sonam Patel, Nidhi Mishra and Dr Himani Awasthi (Guide)

Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs mainly the memory and cognitive functions in elder people. Various studies conducted recently indicate that Alzheimer’s symptom-relieving drugs have the ability of regulating amyloid precursor protein processing and tau phosphorylation.

It has been proposed that ß-amyloid peptide has a key role in this disease. Several different pharmacological strategies have been developed with the aim of inhibiting the formation of ß-amyloid peptides, such as the inhibitors of ß-secretase and ?-secretase. In addition, anti-amyloid treatments have been developed, which include passive and active immunotherapies focused on inhibiting the aggregation of ß-amyloid peptides.

Advances in the identification of the molecular basis of AD can serve as a model to understand the causes of this neurodegenerative disease. However, the most recent clinical trials in 2 phase III trials with solanezumab, a humanised monoclonal antibody that promotes the clearance of ß-amyloid in the brain, indicate that this antibody does not show efficacy in patients with mild AD, suggesting that rethink this amyloidogenic hypothesis of AD.

 

Nidhi Mishra

Sonam Patel

Institution/Students Initiatives

Plantation drive

Adoption of village

Celebration of World Pharmacist Day

Wall magazine

Accomplishment of Doctoral / Post Doctoral fellows:

  • Richa Srivastava (Ph.D. scholar) received Best Oral Presentation Award at 7th APS International PharmSCI 2016 on Sinositis at UK under the guidance of Dr. Sajal Srivastava.
  • Richa Srivastava (Ph.D scholar) received Best Oral Presentation Award on “mucoadhesive nasal gel for poly herbal delivery in acute and chronic rhinosinusitis” at ICPHS 2016 under the guidance of Dr. Sajal Srivastava.

Richa Srivastava

  • Supriya Roy, Ph.D. scholar, under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Suneela Dhaneshwar, Director of Amity Institute of Pharmacy & Deputy Dean of Research at Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus. received a winner certificate and a cash prize of Rs 2000 for the “Best oral presentation” at Two days Conference on “Emerging Challenges and Advances in Neurosciences” (ECAN-2021) held by Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus on 21-22 October 2021.
  • Shruti Srivastava, Ph. D scholar, under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Suneela Dhaneshwar, Director of Amity Institute of Pharmacy & Deputy Dean of Research at Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, received a runner-up certificate and a cash prize of Rs 1000for the “Best oral presentation” at Two days Conference on “Emerging Challenges and Advances in Neurosciences” (ECAN-2021) held by Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus on 21-22 October 2021.
  • Shruti Srivastava, Ph. D scholar, under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Suneela Dhaneshwar, Director of Amity Institute of Pharmacy & Deputy Dean of Research at Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus was awarded the FIRST position and a cash prize of Rs. 2000 for her paper presentation entitled “Validated stability-indicating HPTLC method for estimation of α-Lipoic Acid” at International Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery organized by Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Madhya Pradesh Gwalior on 8 & 9 September 2021.
  • Shruti Srivastava, Ph. D scholar, under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Suneela Dhaneshwar, Director of Amity Institute of Pharmacy & Deputy Dean of Research at Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus received the best oral presentation award for the paper entitled “Validated stability-indicating HPTLC method for determination of ulipristal acetate” in the Indian Pharmaceutical Association Annual Convention (IPAC 2021), organized by Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) in association with Raghavendra Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (RIPER) on 16 & 17 July' 2021.
  • Supriya Roy, Ph.D. scholar, under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Suneela Dhaneshwar, Director of Amity Institute of Pharmacy & Deputy Dean of Research at Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, received the certificate of Excellence for the “Best Professional e-Flash Talk Presentation” at Two Days RAKCOPS International e-Conference on Drug Development 2021. (RAKCOPS-ICDD 2021) on May 23-24, 2021

Visited Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology and Healthcare (BIOHE 2019)

Ms. Anuradha Singh and Ms. Supriya Roy, Ph.D. scholars under the guidance of Prof. (Dr.) Suneela Dhaneshwar, Director of Amity Institute of Pharmacy & Deputy Dean of Research at Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus, participated in the 3rd World Congress on Biotechnology and Healthcare (BIOHE 2019) on the theme “Recent Biotechnological Approaches to Enhance the Current Health Care Systems” held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during 19-20th Aug 2019. The scholars participated in the oral presentation session at the conference and presented their research work, that well-received & appreciated by the renowned experts from the scientific fraternity and delegates representing over 25 countries.

Ph.D. scholar Ms. Anuradha Singh giving an oral presentation at BIOHE 2019

Ph.D. scholar Ms. Supriya Roy (Assistant Professor-I, AIP) giving an oral presentation at BIOHE 2019

Chandragiri Siva Sai, M.Pharm. (Pharmacology)

  • Chandragiri Siva Sai, a student of M.Pharm., Pharmacology (Batch: 2019-21), got admission in Ph.D. in the Department of Pathology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma. During the course, the student will be provided with a full fellowship, covering the tuition fees and health insurance.

Raman Pratap Singh, B.Pharm.

  • Raman Pratap Singh, a student of B.Pharm. (Batch 2017-21) scored 98.33 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) and got selected at IIM-Kashipur for MBA.

Shrestha Dubey, B.Pharm.

  • Shrestha Dubey, a student of B.Pharm. (Batch 2018-22) has secured 17th rank in the entrance exam of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai, for the course of M.Pharm. (Pharmaceutics)+MBA.