GUEST LECTURE AT INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
Dr. S.K. Dutta
Emeritus Professor(
Pharmaceutics) Jadavpur University had
visited Institute of Pharmaceutical Research on 18th March,2013 .He had 40 years teaching in Pharmaceutics.
He delivered a guest lecture on the topic “ Colloids of
Yesterday and Nanotechnology of Tomorrow” to the
students .
He told them that Colloidal drug delivery systems present a range of therapeutic
benefits in the treatment of a number of challenging conditions, allowing
researchers to cross barriers that have previously prevented efficient
treatment while offering improved and more targeted absorption..
But he emphasizes on the fact that today is the age of nanotechnology and the
use of nanotechnology in medicine and more specifically drug delivery is set to
spread rapidly. Currently many
substances are under investigation for drug delivery and more specifically for
cancer therapy. He explained the today pharmaceutical
sciences are using nanoparticles to reduce toxicity and side effects of drugs
and up to recently did not realize that carrier systems themselves may impose
risks to the patient.
He
gave his valuable guidance to the faculties and students of IPR by solving their queries about the basic
principles involved in Pharmaceutics in a very simplified manner. In the meanwhile, he also
discussed about the three laws of Thermodynamics and their utility in
each area of science.
He explained about
the Biological thermodynamics used to refer to bioenergetics,
the study of energy transformation in the biological sciences. Biological thermodynamics
may be defined as the quantitative study of the energy transductions that occur
in and between living organisms, structures, and cells and of the nature and
function of the chemical processes underlying these transductions
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