SPPSPTM, SVKM’s NMIMS ranked 14th in the country as per National Institutional Ranking Framework
(NIRF) 2021 by Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. The parameters assessed by NIRF includes Teaching Learning & Resources, Research
and Professional Practice, Graduation Outcome, Outreach & Industry and Perception.
Transcending Pharmaceutical Education and continuing with the rich legacy of NMIMS, Shobhaben Pratapbhai Patel School of Pharmacy & Technology Management has been featured in India's 10 Best Pharmacy Colleges by the Academic Insights 2020 for its superlative work in creating Next-Gen leaders in the Pharma Industry
Best Institute in Pharmacy Award by DNA Innovative Education Leadership Awards
Ranked 9th in the country amongst all Pharmacy Schools as per National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2018 India by Ministry of Human Resource Development
Best Placement Brochure Award and Institute with Best Academic & Industry Interface Award by Business School Affaire & dewang mehta national education awards.
Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) has invited Mr. Ashutosh Ojha, Associate Professor to be on their jury panel for their Annual Awards function in the OPPI Sales Force Excellence Category. The panel for this category comprises Managing Directors and CXO level professionals from the Indian Industry who serve as thought leaders for the Pharma Industry. OPPI represents the research-based multinational pharmaceutical companies in India. Over the years, the OPPI Annual Awards have been recognised as a Gold Standard in the pharmaceutical industry. The OPPI Annual Awards for excellence in research, sales, marketing, medical excellence and healthcare communications recognise the best work from the OPPI member companies. Mr. Ojha has been on their panel over the last three consecutive years as well.
Pravin Shende, Professor, SPPSPTM delivered a talk on ‘Transporters in drug delivery’ in the section of The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks, London, UK. The talk has been released and is available online on website (https://hstalks.com/bs/5030/). This was an invited talk from Biomedical Editor at Henry Stewart Talks (HST) to present a lecture on transporters in drug delivery in the series on drug delivery systems, Edited by Professor Vladimir P. Torchilin from Northeastern University, USA.Wayne State University School of Medicine enables the talk in The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection (TBLSC) to be accredited under the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) in the USA. Making talks available under this arrangement has been a particular request of users in the pharmaceutical industry. They believe that availability to this wide range of talks by leading experts in biomedical science will greatly benefit medical practitioners working in industry.
Kavita Singh, Assistant Professor, Invited as subject Expert at John Hopkin's University for hands-on training to research team in collaboration with Yuvan research, USA. The trip was fully sponsored by the Yuvan Research, USA.
Sanjay Sharma, Associate Professor, nominated as "Bentham Brand Ambassador” for one year (2022-2023). Bentham Science currently publishes more than 100 journals in both electronic and printed formats. The journals are indexed in recognized indexing agencies, such as Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, PubMed, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, and EMBASE.
Dr. Kapil Juvale, Assistant Professor was awarded "Teaching Excellence of year 2021-22” in Convocation 2022.
Dr. Pravin Shende, Professor, received Best Research Output (2021-22) award in Convocation 2022.
Best Administrative Staff for the year 2021-22 - Mr. Mangesh Lanjekar
Best Performance Award – Laboratory Staff for the year 2021-22
Mr. Manish Harmalkar - Appreciation Award for the year 2021-22 - Dr. Shailesh Khade
Three faculty members from SPPSPTM, Mumbai - Yogesh Kulkarni, Dr. Pravin Shende, Dr. Sonali Bharate are featured in the list of "Top 2% Scientists” in the world.Stanford University, together with Elsevier has been creating a list of 2% of the best scientists in the world. The fourth version of the list has been published in October 2022. The details are available at https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4
Dr. Sandip Auti, Assistant Professor, SPPSPTM received 'Best Poster Presentation Award’ for the research work titled "Effect of caraway oil in animal model of Alzheimer’s disease at 9th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) and Arogya Expo organised by World Ayurveda Foundation held at Panjim, Goa, India during 8th to 11th of December 2022.
Sameer Sakpal, Assistant Store Keeper, participated in Tata Mumbai Half Marathon (Distance: 21.097 KM Race) on 15th January 2023 with BIB No.25195. The cut off time for half marathon distance was 03 Hrs: 30 Min. & he has finished this race in 01 HRS: 53 Mins:45 Secs. For this achievement he has been awarded with "Finisher’s Medal”. In this event total 10993 Runners participated in half Marathon from all over the world.Tata Mumbai Marathon was his 28th Half Marathon & so far he ran 35 Marathons in different parts of India including Pune, Satara, Bengaluru & Jaipur
Dhrumi Patel, PhD student of SPPSPTM under the guidance of Dr. Sarika Wairkar, Associate Professor has been selected for India’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship Program (OVDF) at Purdue University, USA for 12 months based on her academic records, commitment to a sustainable institutional partnership and collaborative research proposal jointly submitted by faculty of Purdue and NMIMS.
A Total of 25 PhD fellows have been selected from 200 applications from all over India from different PhD programs in Science, Technology, and Engineering. This fellowship provides meaningful international research experiences for PhD students enrolled in top Indian institutions and also fosters institutional collaborations between research groups of Purdue and institutions in India.
It is a completely sponsored fellowship by SERB covering Travel charges, monthly fellowship amount equivalent to US $ 2000 to cover living costs and expenses and one time preparatory allowances of Rs. 60,000/- to research fellow. At the same time, she will remain enrolled in the PhD program at NMIMS. One visit, each by the Indian supervisor to the Purdue university where the student is working and Purdue faculty to the host Indian Institution of the student up to one month is also admissible under this Scheme.
Ms. Siddhi Bagwe Parab, Research Scholar mentored by Dr. Ginpreet Kaur, Associate Professor won the "Dr. Arun Sanghani Award” (First Prize) in Pre-Clinical Oral Presentation” and "All-Rounder Women Presenter Award” at the 13th Annual Conference of South Asian College of Clinical Pharmacology (SAC-ACCP) held between 6th to 8th January 2023 at Ahmedabad, Gujrat. The presented paper was entitled "Emoxypine succinate rescues memory impairment in rats with brain iron overload: A potential iron-chelation strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease”. This research study was the outcome of the core research grant provided by DST SERB, Govt. of India.
Moneta - India’s largest financial market-based event, hosted by R.A Poddar College of Commerce & Economics was conducted during 19th -21st January, 2023.
They hosted an array of enriching events from informative seminars to interactive workshops as well as competitions for participants to showcase their financial knowledge.
TEC sent a contingent of 20 participants that participated in 13 events. Facing competition from all over the country, it was commendable that our contingent managed to qualify
the first round in 6 out of the 13 events they took part in. It was an especially joyous moment when our participant, Riya Parekh from 2nd year B pharm + MBA stood 3rd in Legit – a moot court based event.
This was an incredible opportunity for our participants to explore their management skills, trading skills as well as marketing and branding prowess through the various competitions that involved business strategizing, policy making and case study solving. This competition helped many students gain a deeper understanding of the MBA aspect of their degree and got them looking forward to learning that in the years to come. All students are hoping for more such opportunities at such a big scale.
SCHOTT FIOLAX Scholarship Program was launched in the year 2014 with a thought of promoting and encouraging bright minds in pharmaceutical Industry.
This scholarship is one of the prestigious award for the pharmacy students.
Applications were invited from 3rd year B.Pharm and 2nd
year M.Pharm students, who had scored not less than 70% in their previous academic year. Students were supposed to submit an essay on "Pharmaceutical
World Post Pandemic”. After screening of the essay, selected few were called for a personal interview and thereafter the scholarship was declared.Three
of our students have been selected for the SCHOTT FIOLAX SCHOLARSHIP award for year 2022.
The name of the students are mentioned as below:
Kesha Shah, B.Pharm+MBA-3rd year
Tanishk Kamat, B.Pharm+MBA-3rd year
Piyush Verma, M.Pharm+ MBA- 2nd year
Yogesh Kulkarni, Associate Dean & Associate Professor was awarded with "Prof. Manjeeth Singh Award”. The award has been given to the research work in the area of Molecular Pharmacology, presented in oral session at 52nd Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society organized by Indian Pharmacological Society.
Dr. Kavita Singh, Assistant Professor received first prize for an Oral presentation at Disso Research Presentations India (DRPI)-2021 organised by Society for Pharmaceutical Dissolution Science (SPDS) in collaboration with American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS) and Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) on July 16, 2021.
Dr. Priyanka Prabhu, Assistant Professor successfully completed an online course on "Drug Development” by University of California, San Diego through Coursera platform.
Dr. Surendra Agrawal, Associate Professor got Appreciation Award by Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) Mumbai Branch on August 15, 2021. The APTI Mumbai Branch honoured for the commitment and involvement in the development of APTI Mumbai Branch Activities
Dr Sonali S Bharate, Associate Professor, SPPSPTM has been conferred with the CSIR Technology Award 2021 for her innovative research on Saffron on CSIR Foundation Day in gracious presence of Vice President of India, Minster of State for the Ministry of Science of Technology and Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India and Director General, CSIR.
Dr. Surendra Agrawal, Associate Professor, SPPSPTM has received a Capacity-building industrial training (PCI-CBIT) grant from the Pharmacy Council of India. Dr. Surendra will be undergoing one-month training at Sun Pharma Ltd, Dadra, and Nagar Haveli Plant. Pharmacy Council of India has selected 100 faculty across the country in 2021 for the mentioned grant.
Dr. Kalyani Barve, Associate Professor, SPPSPTM received Best e-poster presentation for paper entitled "Valencene formulations for treatment of atopic dermatitis” presented at 8th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology-India (SFEC 2021), organised by Society for Ethnopharmacology- India and Bharti Vidyapeeth, Pune.
Dr. Pravin Shende, Professor and Dr. Yogesh Kulkarni, Associate Professor & Associate Dean have been featured in the list of "Top 2% scientists” in the World. Stanford University, together with Elsevier has been creating a list of 2% of the best scientists in the world. The third version of the list has been published in October 2021, which is based on the Aug 01, 2021 snapshot from Scopus.
Bala Prabhakar, Dean, SPPSPTM, Dr. Pravin Shende, Professor, SPPSPTM, Dr. Pankaj Mandpe, Ph.D Scholar, SPPSPTM and Ms. Hunny Gupta and received Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award 2021 from Sensor Review Development Journal (Scopus Cite Score 2.6, IF1.5 by Clarivate Analytics) for the review article "Glucose oxidase-based biosensor for glucose detection from biological fluids”. The paper is recognized at Emerald Literati Awards 2021.
Saritha Shetty (Associate Professor), received Best Poster presentation Second Position in the poster presentation titled "Pullulan based electrospun nanofibers of Voriconazole: Promising preliminary studies for oral candidiasis” at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Drug Discovery and Development (ICETD3-2022) organised by Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi on January 20-21, 2022. This poster was prepared by Dr. Khushwant Yadav (Associate Professor), Dr. Saritha Shetty (Associate Professor) and Ms. Ritu Jain (student of M.Pharm+MBA-2nd year).
Sateesh B, Professor, is nominated by CPCSEA as scientist from outside the Institute in Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) of Yashraj Biotech, New Mumbai.
Aarti Shah, Assistant Professor, received SBAOI-Bajpai-Saha "Student Award” organized by Department of Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, under the aegis of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine India (STERMI) Co-organized by The American Ceramic Society (ACerS).
Bala Prabhakar, Dean, SPPSPTM, SVKM’s NMIMS received ‘Top Most Global Healthcare Leaders Award’ in the World Health & Wellness Congress (6th Edition) on 24th March, 2022 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai. This Award is an endeavour to salute those individuals and institutions who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields to enhance the quality of medical services and healthcare delivery. It aims to recognize Healthcare Professionals and Institutions who have played an integral role in developing and diversifying the healthcare landscape.
Sandip Auti, Assistant Professor, SPPSPTM, NMIMS received Best Poster Presentation Award for paper titled "1,8 -Cineole Ameliorates the Aluminium induced Alzheimer’s disease in Rats” on 22th to 24th April 2022 presented at 9th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology, (SFEC-2022) India, organised by Society for Ethnopharmacology- India Mysuru Chapter & JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research Mysuru, India
Dr. Mital Patel, Assistant Professor, SPPSPTM has been awarded First prize in the event "Innovative Idea Challenge” in 1st STUDENT RESEARCH CONGRESS. The theme of the Congress was "Innovations for Better Health” which was, organized by SVKM’s Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy and Co-hosted by University of Mumbai, held on September 28-30, 2020 (Online Events).
Dr. Bappaditya Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, SPPSPTM awarded "Best Performer Award in AICTE-ATAL FDP”. The award was presented by the MRS Punjab Technical University for the best performer in AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on "Drug Engineering".
