National Science day celebration 2018
KVM College of Pharmacy celebrated the national Science Day 2018 by organising a One day Program, “Inspiron 2K18”- A workshop on Docking, A Virtual tool for drug discovery. The program was conducted at KVM College of Pharmacy on 24th February 2018 under the sponsorship of Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment. The theme of National Science day 2018 was Science and technology for a Sustainable Future and in this context, a workshop was planned on the computational drug designing; a promising tool which will help to select the most promising candidate to wet lab synthesis thereby save time, money and resources.
The one day workshop was presided over by Dr. Preeja G Pillai, Principal, KVM College of Pharmacy and inaugurated by DR. Bijo Mathew, Asso. Professor, Ahalia College of Pharmacy. Dr. Bijo Mathew, the resource person explained on the structure based drug design and gave hands on training of autodock 4 tools. The teaching staff, PG and UG students from different Colleges attended the workshop and feedback was immensely satisfying.