The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the vital role the Indian pharmaceutical sector is playing as a leading supplier of vaccines in the world. The time is ripe for a career in pharmaceutical and life sciences, be it with start-ups or large global corporations.

Sign up here for the Health is Wealth: Pharma, Biotechnology and Life Sciences webinar to hear experts share their advice on opportunities in this in-demand field.

This virtual session is part of CampusToCareer 2020, a free on-going webinar series from ABP Education.

When: August 24, 3 pm

What it’s about: Career opportunities in biotechnology, life sciences, and the pharmaceutical industry, and how your work in this field will impact the world.

Expect: Find out what a biomedical scientist does and how they help doctors diagnose and treat diseases. Learn about the various roles you can play in biotechnology, biochemistry, computational biology, microbiology, biopharmaceutical, and, above all, research in all these fields. Know how technology is rapidly advancing pharmacology and helping fulfill the need for effective and affordable medicines.

Meet the speakers:

Dr. Debdutta Bandyopadhyay is the acting head of the cell and molecular biology department and senior general manager at Zydus Research Centre, Ahmedabad. A Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology with CSIR fellowship, he went to the US for post-doctoral studies and joined The Tulane University Medical College in New Orleans, US, as a post-doctoral fellow in 1995, working in the field of diabetes. In 1997, Bandyopadhyay switched to cancer biology and worked at MD Anderson Cancer Centre, and then served at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as faculty. He returned to India In 2006 and joined Zydus where his research is focused on diabetes, inflammatory disorders, infective diseases, and COVID-19.

Prof. (Dr.) Abhijit Sengupta Director, Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Science

Dr. Syamal Roy Ph.D., FASc, FNASc, FNA is the acting Dean at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER). Dr. Roy’s research interest is centering around the immunology of infectious diseases, vaccine development, and understanding the mechanism of drug resistance with special reference to leishmaniasis. He has developed a DNA vaccine against leishmaniasis jointly with his European colleagues with the generous financial assistance of the European Commission and CSIR.
His current research interest is the repurposing of drugs to combat leishmaniasis.

Prof. (Dr.) Rudra Prasad Saha is an associate professor and head of the department of biotechnology at Adamas University. Saha completed his post-doctoral research on host-virus relationships at the University of Texas and San Diego State University, after earning his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Jadavpur University (Bose Institute). Saha’s current research interests include metal homeostasis in bacteria, Metallo-regulation of transcription, virus-host interaction, and bioinformatics.

Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay, vice-chancellor, Sister Nivedita University, has over 35 years’ experience in the education sector and has been instrumental in the strategic development of the education landscape. The founder vice-chancellor of Amity University, he was also the pro-vice-chancellor of Calcutta University till 2015. Chattopadhyay was the director of the Centre for Research in Nano Science and Nano Technology at Calcutta University from 2007 till 2015. He was the dean, faculty of science, at Calcutta University from 2003 to 2007.

Prof. Amalesh Samanta is a professor of pharmaceutical technology at Jadavpur University and coordinator of the MPharm course in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice in the pharm tech department. With over 30 years’ teaching and research experience, Samanta is a regular evaluator of a Ph.D. thesis in pharmacy at several Indian universities. He has to his credit around 90 research articles in national and international journals.

Dr. Fatema Calcuttawala, assistant professor, microbiology and biotechnology, at Sister Nivedita University, researches molecular microbiology. She pursued her post-doctoral research at Bose Institute, where she investigated the mechanism of phage induced mycobacterial cell death. During her Ph.D. at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, she studied the activity spectrum of antimicrobial biomolecules called colicins produced by Shigella sonnei and the genetic mechanism of colicin resistance.

Certificate of attendance: Those watching the entire webinar on Zoom will be eligible for a certificate of attendance from ABP Education. Register here for Health is Wealth: Pharma, Biotechnology, and Life Sciences webinar.