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FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK

I welcome all with warm greetings to the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and
Research (NIPER)-Guwahati. In the year 2019-2020, NIPER-Guwahati has seen steady growth
and even started to positioning its presence on a global platform. NIPER-Guwahati is the first
premier national Institute in the North-Eastern region of our country for providing high-quality
Pharmacy Education and Research. The highlight of the year was the commencement of the
2019 academic session from NITS Mirza campus, which is the nature’s bowl, where faculty and
staff with their families, make the campus a home away from home for our young students. This
Institute is involved in National Missions like Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Program
(PMBJP) through which awareness is being created in the rural masses of Assam and other
states of North East about the usage of affordable generic drugs for the dreaded diseases.

During the year, many workshops have been conducted jointly with Industry and premier
institutes like IIT-Guwahati. Our new campus is coming up at Changsari, in 56 acres of land at
North Guwahati. In the year 2019-20, we entered MoUs with Royal Global University, BVG Life
Sciences Ltd., and Hindustan Antibiotics Limited for potential research collaboration.

Along with 3 important Centres of National Importance identified by Govt. of India namely, 1.
National Centre for Pharmacoengineering (State-of-the-art-facilities) funded by Drugs &
Pharmaceuticals Research Programme (DPRP), Technology Development Transfer Board,
Dept. of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India. 2. North-Eastern Societal aspect for
Translational Phytopharmaceutical / Herbal Research Incubation Center under BioNEST
Scheme funded by BIRAC, Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India and 3. Centre of
Excellence Tribal Health Care from Ministry of Tribal Health Care, Govt. of India, NIPER-G is
pleased to announce that this year (2019-20) the Institute is blessed with the extramural funding
for the establishment of Quality assessment & value addition Centre for herbal industry in the
North Eastern states of India under TIES Scheme, Dept. of Commerce, Govt. of India.

I envisage a wonderful future ahead for NIPER-Guwahati as it has all the components to be the
torch bearer of pharmaceutical research and education in the region and the country. I look
forward to work with every one of the faculty, students and staff of NIPER-Guwahati and our
well-wishers & partners in the pursuit of even more imposing heights of academic excellence.

Dr USN Murty

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