Banaras Hindu University ranks among the first few in the country in the field of academic and research output. This university has two campuses, 3 institutes, 16 faculties, 140 departments, 4 advanced centers and 4 interdisciplinary schools.

Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani a leading Institute of Higher Education and a deemed University under section 3 of the UGC act offers degree programmes in Engineering, Sciences, Technology, Pharmacy, Management and Humanities.

ABOUT AUTHORS:
Vishal V. Timaliya*, Prof.Mital v. Dalal
Gujarat Technical University
*vishal.vishal.timaniya@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
The main objectives of this study were the prevalence of depression and cognitive function impairments in patients undergoing hemodialysis.
An observational study performed on 60 patients with CKD stage IV and V undergoing hemodialysis two or three times in a week and CKD stage I to III without hemodialysis. Depressive symptomatology, defined by a Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) score of 16 or higher and cognitive function measured by Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) questionnaire. All data was analyzed by MS excel and Graph pad Prism 5.0.

While there is a huge opportunity for pharmaceutical and Healthcare companies to sell their products in emerging markets due to rising incomes, higher incidence of chronic and lifestyle diseases, better insurance coverage, and better patent protection regimes for drugs, major roadblocks such as lack of mature distribution networks, lower price points due to generics competition, and counterfeiting are leaving even the large companies struggling to handle the challenges from some of these less sophisticated markets. Local business partnerships and better understanding and responsiveness to cultural differences will be very important in determining the success in emerging markets.

ASSOCHAM in its quest to resolve these issues and create a fine link through global regulators and industry experts, and bring first hand information at the disposal are some of the objectives aimed through ASSOCHAM’s unique endeavour “GCT 2013 ? Challenges & Opportunities”

Participation Details
Due to the support of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, ASSOCHAM wave off the Registration fees for GCT 2013; Generic Drugs, Clinical Trials & Technology Conference at Hotel Metropole, Ahmedabad on 30th April 2013.

IICB Institute was established in 1935 as the first non official centre in India for biomedical research and was included within the aegis of CSIR in 1956.
IICB today is engaged in research on diseases of national importance and biological problems of global interest, employing sophisticated state-of-the-art technology in keeping with the rapid and unprecedented momentum that life science research has gained globally over the last 50 years.

MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories (Hilleman Labs), is a joint venture between Merck & Co., Inc. (which operates in India as MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.) and Wellcome Trust (which is a UK based research charity).

Applications are to be submitted by eligible candidates as per prescribed format available on the website wbmsc.co.in, wbmsc.gov.in OR wbhealth.gov.in Details of job requirements and process of selection are also available on the above websites. All applications should be addressed to The Managing Director, West Bengal Medical Services Corporation Limited, Swasthya Bhawan Complex, GN-29, Sector – V, Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700 091.

National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) was founded by Sir Robert McCarrison in the year 1918 as ‘Beri-Beri’ Enquiry Unit in a single room laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. Within a short span of seven years, this unit blossomed into a "Deficiency Disease Enquiry" and later in 1928, emerged as full-fledged "Nutrition Research Laboratories" (NRL) with Dr. McCarrison as its first Director. It was shifted to Hyderabad in 1958.

The Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) is the new state-of-the-art R&D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), which also includes under its umbrella the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), the largest cancer hospital in Asia. ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national centre for treatment, research and education in cancer. TMC is an autonomous grant-in-aid institution of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India.

Medyug is a young startup in healthcare IT building product for next generation IT products in healthcare.

Post: Pharmacist- Pharmacology

KIET School of Pharmacy is a premier institute in the state of Uttar Pradesh for education in pharmacy. The institute has been consistently ranked amongst the top 5 in the state because of its excellent academic performance since its inception. In the academic year 2007-08, KSOP achieved top ranking in UPTU by registering the highest percentage (88%) of all clear passed students and in academic year 2008-09, KSOP had 90% of all clear passed students.

Ajanta Pharma Limited is an emerging, global pharmaceutical company with proven capabilities in the areas of product research, manufacturing & marketing.

The Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha (CCRAS) is an autonomous body registered on 30th March, 1978 under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860. This Council came into existence after bifurcation of the erstwhile Central Council for Research in Indian Medicine and Homeopathy into four different Research Councils.

Banaras Hindu University ranks among the first few in the country in the field of academic and research output. This university has two campuses, 3 institutes, 16 faculties, 140 departments, 4 advanced centers and 4 interdisciplinary schools.

Osmania University, established in 1918, is the seventh oldest in India, the third oldest in south India and the first to be established in the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad. Throughout its existence of over eight decades, it has shown remarkable progress and sustained an integrated development of all faculties. It has significantly contributed to the academic and economic development of not only the region but also of the Country.

The Coconut Research Station at Kasaragod in Kerala was initially established in 1916 by the then Government of Madras and subsequently it was taken over by the Indian Central Coconut Committee in 1948. Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) was established in 1970 as one of the agricultural research institutes in the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited is a Public Sector Enterprise under the administrative control of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India.