National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT-Hyderabad) jointly will organise a workshop entitled - 'drug discovery, design, development, delivery and preclinical studies on 8th & 9th October, 2010.

The workshop is designed in a series of three modules and each module is with duration of two days. Module-1 is about drug discovery and development overview, scheduled on 8th & 9th October, 2010. Module-2 is about dosage form development and NDDS (emerging technologies), scheduled on 12th & 13th November, 2010 and Module-3 is about preclinical phase and toxicology evaluation (GLP), scheduled on 26th & 27th November, 2010.

Aim of the workshop is to bring the academia and industry in a common platform to discuss the current advances in drug discovery and development. The target audience includes: Industry, research scholars and students, Faculty from academic institutions and research centres. The workshop methodology includes: Lectures, panel discussions, demonstrations and hands-on-work assignments for the participants with eminent personalities from the academia & industry such as IICT, NIPER, National Insititute of Nutrition, Institute of Life Sciences, Novartis Healthcare Pvt Ltd, GVK Bio-sciences, NATCO Research Centre, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Aurigene Labs, Incogen Therapeutics.

Limited seats are available and it's purely first come first serve basis. Anticipated participants are any graduates from science/pharmacy or allied fields. Attending one or two modules shall be given "Participation Certificate" and attending all the three modules shall be given "Course Certificate".

Interested candidates can send their duly filled application form and registration fee as DD in favour of 'NIPER, Hyderabad' on or before 25th September, 2010 by 5.00 PM. For more details, please visit NIPER-Hyderabad (www.niperhyd.ac.in)