The Institute has embarked on journey of achieving seemingly insurmountable targets. The teachers and students are our assets. They have brought many laurels at state, national, and international levels. Students and teachers enthusiastically participate in the national and international level events and bring pride to the Institute.
Dr. Hardik Bhatt received Nirma University Major Research Project as Principal Investigator (co-PI: Dr. Vivek Vyas and Dr. Bhumika Patel) entitled 'Exploring Heterocyclic Scaffolds as Telomerase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Cancer' worth Rs. 30 Lakh
02 Aug 2021
Indian Patent Granted [IN 373328]
30 Jul 2021
Invited to deliver a talk during AICTE sponsored online STTP on “Scientific Research Paper, Patents and Research Proposal Writing for Grants and an Ethics” organised by R. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (RCPIPER), Shirpur, Maharashtra, India
28 May 2021
Invited to deliver a talk during AICTE sponsored online STTP on “Computer Aided Drug Designing: A Customized and Innovative Solution to the Greatest Challenges in Chemistry” organised by ASBASJSM College of Pharmacy, Bela, Punjab, India
10 May 2021
Coordinated International e-Conference-2021 on Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Research as Organising Secretary
18 Mar 2021
Invited to deliver a Scientific Talk at “National Science Day Celebration” organised by Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Ahmedabad, India
01 Mar 2021
Dr Priti Mehta's work is recognized by Indian Patent office and granted patent entitled 'A depot formulation and process of preparation thereof' (4062/MUM/2014)
26 Feb 2021
Book chapter entitled 'Physicochemical Stability of Space Medicines' published in Handbook of Space Pharmaceuticals, Springer, Cham. in 2020
24 Feb 2021
DR. P. D. SETHI MEMORIAL NATIONAL AWARD
24 Nov 2020
Certificate of Appreciation as a Special Recognition for Performance in Alumni Relations for the year 2020
01 Oct 2020
Patent Granted
18 Sep 2020
Indian Patent Granted [IN 346886]
16 Sep 2020
Invited to deliver a Scientific Talk at “A Virtual Science Forum” – Knowledge sharing platform organised by Piramal Discovery Solutions, Ahmedabad , India
21 Aug 2020
Invited to deliver a Scientific Talk during International Webinar on Molecular Biology of Cancer organised by United Scientific Group, USA
27 May 2020
Dr. Niyati Acharya received SFE Young Ethnopharmacologist Award 2020 on topic of "Neuroprotective effects of bacoside A in Alzheimer’s disease: Investigation through molecular docking, in vitro and in vivo studies"
17 Feb 2020
Dr. Vivek K. Vyas received ACS (American Chemical Society) Best Abstract Award in area of "Advances in New Drug Discovery and Development"
08 Feb 2020
Coordinated ISCBC-NIPiCON-2020: An International Conference as Organising Secretary
23 Jan 2020
Dr. Niyati Acharya has been awarded “The GABTP National Woman Scientist Award 2019”
24 Nov 2019
Dr. Mayur Patel, Associate Professor, Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University has been awarded the APTI Young Pharmacy Teacher of the Year 2019 at APTICON – 2019
13 Oct 2019
Indian Patent Granted [IN 317306]
31 Jul 2019
Patent Granted
03 Apr 2019
Travel Grant from SERB, DST, Gov. of India
31 Mar 2019
DST-SERB Grant
15 Feb 2019
Received Dr. P. D. Shethi Memorial Annual National Award 2017
31 Dec 2018
First Prize for Best Paper in Oral Presentation
06 Oct 2018
Recipient of Woman of the year award 2018 conferred by Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India
04 Oct 2018
Received Best Assistant Professor Award 2018-19
01 Oct 2018
Received International Travel Grant from SERB-DST to attend the 132nd AOAC International Annual Meeting & Exposition at Toronto, Canada during 26th – 29th August 2018
25 Aug 2018
Major research project entitled “Exploring non-equilibrium atmospheric plasma for effective sterilization including biological safety aspects” from BRNS, DAE
02 Apr 2018
ACS Grant
03 Nov 2017
EUDRAGIT Award 2016 from Evonik Industries AG, Germany
13 Sep 2017
Co-authored Best Poster Presentation at RBF-2017
04 Feb 2017
Published an article in very High Impact Factor (8.442) Journal “Trends in Analytical Chemistry”, Elsevier
31 Jan 2017
Felicitated for Outstanding Performance during academic year 2015-16
01 Oct 2016
Best Paper Award (First Prize) at 6th Indo-Japanese International Symposium
24 Sep 2016
Best Oral Presentation Award at an International Conference ICPPM 2016, held at Vancouver, Canada on 4th & 5th August 2016
05 Aug 2016
International Travel Grant from ICMR for attending conference in Vancouver, Canada in 2016
17 Jun 2016
Co-authored Best Poster Presentation at NIPiCON-2016
21 Jan 2016
Best Assistant Professor of Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University in Teaching Methodology for the year 2015
05 Dec 2015
Awarded with Best Assistant Professor of the Institute for Overall performance in the year 2015
01 Oct 2015
Co-authored Best Poster Presentation at NCIP-2015
23 Jan 2015
Received best paper award in category of Pharmaceutics for A paper ”Self-emulsifying Drug Delivery System Containing Aceclofenac: Design & Development using Quality by Design (QbD) Concept” published in Indian Drugs (Volume 51, Issue 6, 2014).
10 Jan 2015
Won Best poster award in the poster competition of faculty members for poster entitled" Anticancer potential of Symplocos racemosa bark on human liver cancer cell line (HEP3-B)" at International Symposium on Recent Trends in Cancer Research: From OM to OMICS, Ahmedabad
24 Nov 2014
Second Prize in poster presentation competition at Institute of Cancer Biology, The Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, Ahmedabad
14 Nov 2014
Received Second Prize in poster competition at National Conference at B.V. Patel PERD Centre, Ahmedabad
07 Nov 2014
Recipient of Dr. S. Vajpayee award for best oral presentation at 24th Indian Society of Hypertension Confenrence
28 Sep 2014
2nd Prize in National Competition - Patentrack 2014 for Poster Presentation at GTU on 5th Sept 2014
05 Sep 2014
2nd Prize in GUJCOST sponsored National Seminar for Poster Presentation at L.M. College of Phrmacy on 1st Sept. 2014
01 Sep 2014
Received minor research grant for a project entitled "Development of self-emulsifying drug delivery system of the poorly water-soluble antihypertensive drug (Nimodipine)” from GUJCOST, Gandhinagar.
30 Jun 2014
First Prize in poster presentation competition in AICTE Sponsored National Seminar on Recent Advances in Drug Discovery and Development at Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, B.N. College of Pharmacy, Udaipur
14 Feb 2014
Recipient of Financial grant from GUJCOST and Department of Science and Technology to conduct workshop on Process Spectroscopy and Chromatography
23 Dec 2013
Second Prize in poster presentation competition in National Seminar on Supramolecules and Nanotechnology
19 Oct 2013
Felicitated on Foundation Day 2013 for getting highest Feedback from students
01 Oct 2013
Recipient of P D Sethi award 2011 and 2013
01 Aug 2013
Book Chapter in "Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology" 4th Edition
01 Jul 2013
Recipient of Faculty Development Programme (FDP) grant by AICTE titled “Newer perspectives in Clinical Research” for the year 2012-13.
25 Mar 2013
Awarded best poster for her research paper 'Effect of gallotannins from fruit juice of Emblica officinalis on animal model of type 2 diabetes: Activation of PPAR-γ' at poster competition at ICMR sponsored National conference on “Drug Discovery from Natural Products' organized by Ramanbhai Patel college of Pharmacy, CHARUSAT, Changa in 8-9 January 2013.
09 Jan 2013
Received felicitation on foundation day-2012 by Institute of pharmacy, Nirma University for receiving highest amount of consultancy projects
01 Oct 2012
Recipient of Innovative M Pharm thesis Award (guide category) in the area of Quality Assurance
11 May 2012
CSIR Grant
10 May 2012
Received 1st Prize (gold medal and cash prize of Rs.5000/- for “Effect of gallic acid on animal model of type 2 diabetes: activation of PPAR-γ“ at National Conference on “Innovation in Pharmaceutical industry: From Drug Development to Distribution” dated 28th-29th January 2012 jointly organized by pharmanext and L.J institute of Pharmacy.
28 Jan 2012
International Travel Grant from SERB, DST for attending AAPS Annual Meeting and Expostion at Washington DC, USA in October 2011
13 Sep 2011
Travel Grant from INSA-CICS, Gov. of India for presenting and attending 21st Singapore Pharmacy Congress at Singapore
06 Jul 2011
Received prize in the Rajnibhai V. Patel Best Thesis competition for M.Pharm programme supported by Department of Science & Technology in Guide category in year 2011
27 Mar 2011
Co-authored Best Poster Presentation in First International Conference in Forensic Nanotechnology
26 Mar 2011
Co-Guide Award for Innovative MPharm Thesis Award (Pharmaceutics) for the Year 2010
13 Mar 2011
Research Award “Certificate of Merit” by CRS-IC International Symposium
17 Feb 2011
Chief coordinator of Indo-American Pharmaceutical Regulatory Symposium 2011 organized in collaboration with Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
21 Jan 2011
Recipient of Financial grant from GUJCOST, Gandhinagar to conduct two days workshop on Modern Instrumentation Techniques
20 Jan 2011
Best Poster award at an International Conference on “Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences”
23 Dec 2010
Third position in “Myriad”, a Nanotechnology based model designing competition at Institute of Research and Development, Gujarat Forensic Science University, Gandhinagar, India
29 Nov 2010
Travel Grant from DBT, Gov. of India, for presenting and attending AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition at New Orleans, USA,
13 Aug 2010
Received CSIR-SRF
25 Mar 2010
Chairperson of Venue committee in 61st Indian Pharmaceutical Congress
25 Dec 2009
Received UGC-JRF
24 Sep 2009
Co-authored Best Poster Presentation at National Seminar on Frontiers in Nanotechnology: A Pharmaceutical Perspective
20 Mar 2009
Recipient of International travel grant from Nirma University
25 Sep 2008
Awarded 2nd Prize in 36th conference of Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI) on paper entitled ‘Herbal Antidiabetic in current practice: How should we view?’ organized at Rajkot on April 2007
07 Apr 2007
Received P.D.Shethi, best research paper award from Anchrome India Ltd. for her publication on Use of HPTLC to establish a Distinct Chemical Profile for Shankhpushpi and for quantification of Scopoletin in Convolvulus pluricaulis Choisy and in commercial formulations of Shankhpushpi
16 Jul 2006
Received Best Paper Award 2004 granted by Association of Pharmaceutical Teacher’s of India for publishing paper entitled “Patient Counseling by Pharmacists” in their official publication, Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
10 Oct 2004
Recipient of Gold Medal for standing First in MPharm in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Gujarat University in 2004.
01 Sep 2004
Recipient of best paper award of prestigious M L Khurana memorial prize, in the field of analytical chemistry
15 Jul 2004
Recipient of Shri B. V. Patel Memorial GOLD MEDAL by Gujarat University for securing highest marks in Pharmacology subject in Final B. Pharm. (Yr. 1995).
11 Sep 1995
Dr. Snehal Patel was recognized as one of the top 2% scientists in the world published by Stanford University in October 2021
Vishal K Chavda, PhD Research Scholar, Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University has received FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) Grant Award and FENS Voucher Programmer Grant award in FENS 2020 Virtual Forum held on from 11th July-15th July, 2020. He has presented a online research poster and oral talk on his PhD Research entitled, “Neurotrophic and cerebroprotective effects of sexagliptin and voglibose: “In-silico to in-vivo animalinvestigational approach” at FENS virtual forum. FENS 2020 was jointly organized with British Neuroscience Association (BNA) at Glasgow, UK.
Awarded Harvard Internship Programme (HIP) from Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Khorana Scholarship from the DBT, IUSSTF for summer internship for 12 weeks at University of North Carolina, USA
Best MPharm Thesis Award for National level “PharmInnova award 2013-2014”
Jigish N Dalal (Sunij Foundation) award by IDMA from Hon. Health Minister of Gujarat, Mr. Nitin Patel for academic excellence.
M L Khurana award for securing highest marks in BPharm from all over India in 2012
The Most Innovative MPharm Thesis Award in the R V Patel Innovative MPharm Thesis Competition 2012-13 in the STUDENT CATEGORY in the area of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, jointly organized by Troikaa Pharmaceuticals Limited and MSME sponsored by Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi.
Mr. Omkar Sherikar under the guidance of Prof. Priti J. Mehta presented a research paper at the international conference, Analytical research Forum 2012, held on July 2-4, 2012 at Durham University, United Kingdom. The Conference was organized by ‘Royal Society of Chemistry’, United Kingdom. He received full International Travel Support including visa fees and registration fees from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India for the same.
First rank at all India level in GPAT Examination – A national level entrance test for admissions in MPharm programme.
M L Khurana award for securing highest marks in BPharm from all over India in 2009.
Drama club students of the Institute of Pharmacy won 6 trophies in Inter Institute One Act Play Competition held on 4th February 2020 Theme – “CLIMATE CONNECTION”
Title of Play- “Vanjhiyan – A Mother of Thousands”
1) Best Drama- 1st prize (Institute of Pharmacy) –
Name of Participants of One Act Play- Jay Shah, Kunj Thakkar, Shrey Modi, Nency Patel, Jenny Kundadiya, Kevan Patel, Abhi Patel, Vaidehi Patel, Archi Shah.
2) Best Production Team -Jainil Sheth, Jaydeep Hapaliya, Kathan Desai
3) Best Director – Kunj Thakkar (B.Pharm sem VIII)
4) Best Actor – Jay Shah (B. Pharm sem VIII)
5) Best Actress – Jenny Kundadiya (B.Pharm sem VI)
6) Best Supporting Actress – Vaidehi Patel (B.Pharm Sem VIII)
First prize in extempore event at state level competition at Deesa.
Second Prize for elocution competition in “Spandan 2016” held at Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University
Awarded best videography prize in HLCC MUN organised by HLCC & United Nation Info Center for India & Bhutan
Five gold medals and one silver medal in swimming competition at Inter club aquatic meet 2015 of various clubs (Gymkhana, Rajpath , Karnavati, Rifle, Sports club) organized at Ellis bridge gymkhana, Ahmedabad