We are happy to inform you that programs offered by Department of Pharma have become programs of choice for Pharma professionals in our country. So far, professionals from more than 100 reputed Pharma companies including Dr. Reddy's, Ranbaxy, Zydus, Cadila, Elder Pharma, Glenmark, Aventis, Macleods, Lupin, Aurobindo, GSK, IPCA, Novartis, Torrent, Biocon, Pfizer, Nicholas, Wockhardt, Dabur, Panacea Biotech, Himalaya etc have joined these programs. These programs have been recommended by the HR Department in some Pharma companies. We are also proud to receive several International students in these Pharma programs.

Dispatch Details

  First Dispatch:

• Quality Assurance of Pharmaceuticals -Volume I (Quality Assurance in Pharma Industry-I)
• Good Manufacturing Practices, Quality Assurance and Regulation
• Pharma Regulation Practices and Procedures
• An issue of Institute Journal "Bioinformatics India" (Volume III, Issue II)

Next Dispatch

Next dispatch will contain:

• Quality Assurance of Pharmaceuticals -Volume II (Quality Assurance in Pharma Industry-II)
• Quality Assurance and Control
• Statistical Quality Control and Biostatistics
• Compulsory Assignments for all modules

This dispatch is due in 3 months time period

Batch Notice Board

The institute for the benefit of its students maintains a Batch Notice on www.bioinformaticscentre.org . It is compulsory for all students to visit the Batch Notice Board from time to time.

Evaluation and Assessment Procedure

Examination and assessment is done on the basis of

a) Compulsory Assignments Compulsory Assignments for all modules will be issued in the month of January. The students have to submit solved assignments back to the institute.
b) Final Examination to be held in November 2006
Examination Notification and Examination Form will be dispatched in July 2006.

Failure in Submitted Assignments

If a candidate fails in one or more papers in the year-end exam, he/she can appear for those papers only in subsequent exams for next batch. Students not clearing their exams in October 2006 have to re-register in the next session.

Electronic Self Evaluation Workbooks

Facility of continuous self-evaluation is a unique feature of the program. We will be providing electronic self-evaluation workbooks on all the papers. Self-evaluation workbooks can be downloaded from the download section on the batch Notice Board of our website.

Assignment Workbooks

Assignment workbook for all the modules will be issued in the month of November. The students have to submit solved assignments back to the Institute.

Audio Visual Lectures

The institute is preparing a set of audio-visual lectures for all the modules. They are essentially meant for Corporate Training. However, they will be provided to the students at a very nominal cost.

One such set of lectures is available for Clinical Trials. It can be obtained at a processing and postage fee of Rs 250/USD 25 only in the form of Cheque/DD in favour of "Bioinformatics Institute of India" payable at Delhi/ New Delhi.

BII Education Network (BIIEDNET)

BII Education Network (BIIEDNET) - is an open interactive knowledge platform for you. It is meant to be a platform "Of the Participants, for the Participants by BII". BIIEDNET will provide the following facilities:

• Knowledge interchange and exchange among the users.
• Web based resources.
• Information sharing on jobs, events etc.
• Other activities of mutual interest among the users.

So, through this Synchronous Discussions - computer mediated communication (CMC) students are able to communicate with other students of the Institute to share news, views, comments and opportunities in the domain area.

The BII Education Network (BIIEDNET) is available on Batch Notice Board on our website. The link is http://www.bii.in/biiednet. All students can login with their Roll no. as user ID and their date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy) as password.

Placement Service

Several Pharma companies have shown their interest in hiring graduates of our different programs offered by Department of Pharma. Once the program has been completed, the interested candidates can send their resumes, which will be circulated to such Pharma companies.

Note: All students of the program can communicate with the institute through the email: pharma@bioinformaticscentre.org

Wishing you all the best

For BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE OF INDIA
Program Coordinator
PGD in Pharma Quality Assurance and Quality Control