About the Workshop
One-week high end workshop in advanced experimental pharmacology techniques and clinical data analysis
JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, India
18-23 January 2021
About JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru
JSS College of Pharmacy,Ooty Tamilnadu is a constituent college of JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru which is established in 1980 with a view to provide professional courses in Pharmacy. The College is accredited by (NAAC) with `A+` Grade, 34th Rank with National Institute framework and the Pharm D program is internationally certified by Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, International Service Program by United States of America. The infrastructure available makes the college a conducive place for academic learning with quality education in a clean and comfortable environment.
The objective of workshop
The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is undergoing rapid development and expansion. A great deal of effort has gone into integrating teaching of pharmacology and clinical pharmacology with clinical subjects, but there is still a long way to go. Research is taught as an industry and product-oriented profession. The undergraduate program does not include training in research though it is proposed. For both undergraduate and the postgraduate courses in the field of Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing and various paramedical courses, a research project and dissertation are mandatory. However, in 2011, the UGC issued a directive requiring a phased reduction in the use of animals in both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs. As a consequence, for students and academician the exposure to studies using laboratory animals is now almost nonexistent within all undergraduate programs in India and extremely limited in postgraduate programs.
Modern in vivo pharmacologists not only require manual or technical skills, but a much broader education including in animal welfare, ethics, the principles of the replacement, refinement, and reduction of animals in research, and nonanimal alternative techniques. It is necessary for the students and the academician to be equipped with the knowledge, skills and expertise to undertake the systems-based efficacy, absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, safety pharmacological & toxicological studies which are a legal requirement for new or modified therapeutic agents.
Despite the rapid development, adoption, and utilization of nonanimal research techniques and technologies, individuals with these in vivo skills and expertise remain essential for modern drug discovery. Further, the Governments vision being that, by 2020, India is a strategic destination for all stages (preclinical, formulation, and clinical studies).
Critical to this development there is a need for education and training of the next generation students and academician with respect to clinical pharmacology, clinical research, data analysis using several software’s and interpretation of the data.
Thus the goal of this workshop is to provide a unique opportunity for all participants to advance their knowledge and skills with respect to experimental techniques in preclinical and clinical pharmacology, understanding to design the following
- Epidemiology studies
- Causal inference in epidemiology
- Study designs
- Measures of disease frequency & association
- Methods used in assessing to handle confounding & bias and analysis
With this introductory sequence, it is further intended to provide the participants of workshop with a broad overview of biostatistical methods and concepts used in the public health sciences with the application of statistical modeling in epidemiologic studies using the software with hands-on experience, as mentioned below :
- Machine learning
- SPSS
- SAS and “R”
The workshop emphasis on interpretation and concepts rather than calculations or mathematical details. Statistical formulas will be kept to a minimum.
During the workshop, participants will be given a set of practice exercises that will be distributed during the workshop. These exercises are designed to help learners apply their knowledge to a practical problem. Solutions to the exercises will be provided so that participants have timely feedback on their work. At the beginning of each session, will address questions about participants computations and their interpretation. Everyone is highly encouraged to complete the practice exercise before analyzing data from their own research projects.
The participants would be given inputs on the job opportunities in pharmaceutical companies, educational institutions, research facilities, universities, government organizations, hospitals, and other companies in the medical industry.
Target Audience:
The one week course is intended for clinicians, nurses, epidemiologist, biochemist, statistician, social scientist, PhD students and public health researchers, who are involved in preclinical and public health research in study design, statistical analysis, manuscript writing, review article supervising researcher in academic areas.
Outcome of the workshop:
At the end of the workshop the participants will have better understanding of experimental pharmacology. The participants should be able to classify statistical analysis as a collection of techniques that are intended to uncover information in data, discuss how statistical methodology is used as a research tool to aid thinking, describe the purpose and proper use of the statistical techniques that are presented in the workshop, define basic statistical concepts, conduct statistical tests of research hypotheses using methods presented in the workshop, interpret the meaning of tests of hypotheses and other statistical computations, identify the information that one needs to conduct a sample size estimation.
The organizers of the workshop will issue a certificate of participation for those who have successfully completed practice exercises.