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Planning and Technical Co-ordination activities
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- Bu səhifədəki naviqasiya:
- CEP on CBRN Disasters
- CEP on Herbal Drug Research
- CEP on Cellular and Molecular Imaging (9 th to 13 th February 2004) As Course Director, organized a CEP on Cellular and Molecular Imaging
- DRDO- Pharma Industry meet (24th March 2004)
- Seminar on Seabuckthorn (12 - 13 March 2004)
- 24 th Annual Conference of ‘Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists’ (2-4 November 2003)
- Training courses on “CBRN Disaster Management”
Planning and Technical Co-ordination activitiesI have a flair for collating, analysing, and disseminating scientific and technological information. During the July 2003 to February 2006 period, I was entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the planning and technical coordination activities at INMAS, which includes liaison, project management, HRD, establishment of a modern Technical Information Resource Centre, decision support services and implementation of the Govt. policies. I extensively apply computers in research, office management, communication and information handling and have undergone few courses to learn the required skills for these applications. I have worked as Project Co-ordinator, INMAS and Joint Director (Technical and Project Management).
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CBRN CEPs aimed at providing an overview of threat spectra of the CBRN agents, need of awareness, sensitization and focused R&D for product and technology development in the subject field. The major topics covered were: a) Chemical Warfare & Toxic Industrial Agents; b) Biological Disasters including Agroterrorism; c) H1N1 Pandemic Flu; d) Protection, Detection and Decontamination Strategies for CBRN Defence; e)Radiological Environmental Monitoring and Radiation Biodosimetry; f) Specialised Evacuation Strategies in Contaminated Environment; g) Medical Management of Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies; h) Role of Armed Forces in management of CBRN Emergencies; i) Information Management and; j) Psychosocial Support in aftermath of CBRN Emergencies. Seventeen faculty members were drawn from DRDO, four from armed forces, two each from other scientific organizations / NDMA and one was from Industry.
As Course Director, organized a CEP on ‘Herbal Drug Research’ during 3-7 October 2005. Thirty-one participants from different DRDO laboratories attended the CEP on Herbal Drug Research including 15 from INMAS and 16 from other DRDO Labs. The faculty included eminent professionals from various Institutions and Universities, besides scientists from DIPAS, Delhi and INMAS, Delhi. There were four Speakers from CSIR Labs (like CIMAP, Lucknow, RRL, Jammu, CDRI, Lucknow), six speakers from reputed universities, two speakers from BARC, three speakers from DRDO, two speakers from the Pharma Industry (Lupin, Pune and Nicholas Piramal, Mumbai) and one speaker each from NIPER, Chandigarh, CNCI, Kolkata, JLN Cancer Centre, Bhopal, Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai and IIHM, Lucknow. The topic on IPR and related issues were also covered.
As Course Director, organized a CEP on Cellular and Molecular Imaging during 9- 13 February 2004. Fourteen participants from different DRDO laboratories attended the CEP including 12 from INMAS and 2 from other DRDO Labs. Prof. DK Hazara, Dean, Indian College of Nuclear Medicine gave the keynote in the inaugural session. The course consisted of 21 lectures and 4 demonstrations covering various aspects of “Cellular and Molecular Imaging” like Nuclear Medicine & MR techniques, Geonomics, Proteomics and Multiphoton confocal microscopy, Fluorescence lifetime imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography, Multi Modality approach, Flow cytometry and Fluorescence in-situ hybridization. Faculty included eminent professionals from various Universities and Institutions like AIIMS, New Delhi and ACBR, University of Delhi, besides Scientists / Clinicians from INMAS, Delhi and LASTEC, Delhi. I actively participated in the organisation as well as scientific deliberations of various Seminars, Symposia, Workshops, and Rajbhasha activities. I organised following major national events:
A workshop on DRDO- Pharma Industry meet was held at INMAS on 24th March 2004. Dr. W. Selvamurthy, Chief Controller Research & Development (Life Sciences & Human Resources) was the chief organizer and Dr. KS Manja and myself were the co-ordinators. Dr. V.K. Aatre, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri was the Chief Guest. The meeting was attended by Senior Army Officials from the office of DGFMS besides dignitaries from various Govt. and top brass of Pharmaceutical Industry. In total, 120 people attended the workshop. During the meet the budding technologies related to development of drugs/devices evolved from DRDO laboratories were exposed to perspective Pharma entrepreneurs for further investigations and marketing after ToT.
A two-day Seminar on ‘Seabuckthorn – A Resource for Environment, Health and Economy’ was organized at INMAS during 12th to 13th Mar 2004. Dr W Selvamurthy, Chief Controller R&D (LS & HR) and Outstanding Scientist, DRDO Presided over the function while Dr Tej Partap, Vice Chancellor, HP Agriculture University, Palampur, HP was the Chief Guest. About 120 delegates from various DRDO laboratories and other institutions attended the Seminar.
I contributed in organization of the 24th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists from 2-4 November 2003 at INMAS. The conference was preceded by one-day Dr. Saradhasubramaniam Memorial Workshop on 1st November 2003 where the participants were briefed about the role of Radiotracers in Research and Diagnosis. About 300 delegates, who included eminent scientists / academicians as well as students from all over India participated in this four-day intellectual feast. The deliberrations mainly revolved around the theme, ‘Radiotracers in Drug Development’ and 17 expert speakers were invited who delivered their talks on issues related to the theme of the conference. The scientific sessions covered the use of radiotracers in the preclinical stages of drug development to clinical trials. Importance of future techniques likes PET and MRI in drug development was also discussed by some eminent scientists. The Conference concluded with a panel discussion chaired by the Drug Controller General of India, Mr. Ashwini Kumar. Representatives from Pharma Industry, academic research, nuclear medicine and regulatory authority discussed the various issues concerning drug development. A committee was formed to incorporate the regulatory aspects in the use of radiotracers in drug development.
INMAS has been involved in giving extensive training on Radiation Disaster Management to both civilians stakeholders and officers of the Armed Forces and paramilitary organisations. Three sets of lectures on Radiation Disaster Management have been delivered at Bhacoli which is a suburb of Delhi. Extensive lectures have been given on this topic at DRDE, Gwalior and at the Research and Referral Hospital at Delhi. Radiation disaster management and protection lectures have been given at the Shriram Institute in the University of Delhi, invited lectures at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Indian Society for Radiation Biology Conferences, and nine training courses on Radiation disaster management have been given to officers of the Armed Forces and other civilian stakeholders. For the first time officer of Army, Navy and Air Force jointly attended these courses. We actively participated in delivering lectures and organizing demonstrations to doctors of Delhi Government in the training programme arranged at Apex Trauma Center, AIIMS under the aegis of NDMA and DRDO. A number of lectures/demonstrations/exhibitions have been organized during visit of Officers from all branches of Defence Forces at INMAS and at training course conducted at NIDM, CME, Pune, NBCD, Lonavala, OTS, Lucknow etc. As co-ordinator of core group, National Disaster Management Guidelines- Chemical (Industrial) Disaster Management organized 12 regional conference and 02 national conclaves. Recently, a number of activities were undertaken for training of nearly 750 responders of Defence Forces (Quick Reaction Teams, Quick Reaction Medical Teams, and Allied Troops), Central Paramilitary Organisations, Elite Forces and Military / Civilian Medical / Paramedical cadre for raising their Preparedness for Response to CBRN Emergencies during the Commonwealth Games 2010. These includes:
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