The Tamil Nadu Pharmaceutical Sciences Welfare Trust (TNPSWT) has selected 21 final year M Pharm students from various pharmacy colleges in Tamil Nadu for this year’s M Pharm Scholarship Awards. The awards were instituted by TNPSWT and are being given to selected M Pharm students for their on-going project work.

Sources in the TNPSWT said this is the 13th year of these awards. The awards and certificates were given away by Dr B Suresh, president of PCI in a seminar held in Chennai last week.

“This year, we received 268 applications from seven different branches of pharmacy from 19 colleges. 262 synopses were sent to Dr Madhusudan Rao, Principal, University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya University, Warangal, and his team for evaluation.  Based on their best marks, these students have been selected for award of scholarship” said N. Sreenivasan, general secretary of the Trust.

Each branch of pharmaceutical sciences is given three scholarships with first, second and third ranks and there are seven branches. The first rank carries Rs. 8000, second rank, Rs.  7000 and Rs. 6000 for the third rank. Pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, pharmacy practice and biotechnology are the branches in which scholarships were awarded.

K R Vimal of PSG College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore has won the first rank of scholarship for the branch, pharmaceutics.  Syam Potnuru of Adhiparasakthi College of Pharmacy, Melmaruvathur,  won the second rank. The third rank holder is Anindita De of JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty.

In pharmaceutical chemistry, the winner is S Jeevanantham from RVS College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore, the second rank goes to V Hemalatha of SRM College of Pharmacy, Kattankolathur and Sona Joseph from KMCH College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore bagged the third rank.

E Kumanan from Adhiparasakthi College of Pharmacy, Melmaruvathur is the first rank holder for pharmaceutical analysis and K Harsha Manjusha from JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty ranked second. M Manu from RVS College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore bagged the third rank.

In pharmacology, the first rank goes to Kalpana Eluri of PSG College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore and R Ranjith Kumar from the same college has been selected for the second rank. R Anand from KM College of Pharmacy, Madurai is the third winner.

In pharmacognocy the first rank for scholarship was given to M Mubeen of Madurai Medical College, Madurai and V Jothi Rani of Arulmigu Kalasalingam College, Srivilliputhur has been chosen for the second. Aparna Sarepaka of JSS College is the third winner.

In the branch of pharmacy practice, the first rank was given to Raj Kucherlapati VSP    of JSS College of Pharmacy, Ootty, and Merin Levy Philips from SRIPMS, Coimbatore got the second award. C Karthic Kumar from JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty bagged the third rank.

In biotechnology, the first rank was given to N Karthikeyan of SRIPMS, Coimbatore and S Karthikeyan of the same college bagged the second rank. The third rank went to Mahesh Thondawada of JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty.