• Gender: Male
• Age: 45
• Designation: Executive
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 18.2 Year(s)

Education

Masters in Pharmacy (in Pharmaceutics) From Department of Pharmaceutics, Himalayan Pharmacy Institute of North Bengal University, with 80.15%

Bachelor in Pharmacy From Himalayan Pharmacy Institute of North Bengal University with 76.66%

B.Sc in Botany From Ananda Chandra College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal

12th From Jalpaiguri Zilla School, West Bengal

10th From Jalpaiguri Zilla School, West Bengal

Skill Sets

Operating system: Microsoft Windows – Xp, Linux
Software: MS Office and its Variants, Adobe
Statistical Software: Design Expert, Graph Pad Prism, Origin Pro, Kinetica etc.

Work Experience

Project Fellow
Since Oct 2010
Company Profile: Leading university.
Job Profile:
Formulation development and assessing their quality
Polymer characterization, Synthesis of polymer from natural origin,
systematic profiling and modifying the same by grafting technology
Microbial assay, Toxicological study
BA/BE study using statistical software
IVIVC study using different animal model
Data handling and write up to different National and International
Journal of repute
Reviewing scientific papers and thesis
Guiding to Master degree students in their projects
Organizing committee member of scientific seminar and symposium

Assistant Professor
July 2008 to Sept 2010
Company Profile: Is the pioneer institution conducting Pharmacy courses.
Job Profile:
Academicals: Subjects/ Topic handled –
Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy including Clinical Trials and Data Management thereof
Drug interaction studies
Novel drug delivery systems including Tablets, Capsules, Injectable, Micro-particulate, Nano-particulate, Transdermal, Liposomes, Niosomes etc.
Strategies of pre-formulation studies and Optimization technique of pharmaceutical formulations using DoE viz. Factorial design, Box
– Behnken design, Taguchi model etc.
Mathematical modeling of data viz. Zero order, First order, Higuchi, Korsmayer – Peppas etc.
Bio - pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics
Industrial Pharmacy including manufacturing of Tablets, Capsules, Inhalation, Injectable formulations etc.
Institutional:
Successful handling of different Approval bodies like U.G.C, P.C.I and A.I.C.T.E. etc.
To act as Examiner (Internal and External) and Paper setter in University level
Being Committee members of – Examination, Student affairs, Sports

Lecturer
August 2007 to June 2008
Company Name: V.M.S. College of Pharmacy
Job Profile:
Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy including Clinical Trials and Data Management thereof
Drug interaction studies
Bio - pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics
Industrial Pharmacy including manufacturing of Tablets, Capsules, Inhalation, Injectable formulations etc.
Chemistry of Natural products
Medicinal chemistry including synthesis, mechanism of action, SAR studies of different category of drugs etc.
Institutional:
Successful handling of different Approval bodies like U.G.C, P.C.I and A.I.C.T.E. etc.
To act as Examiner (Internal and External) and Paper setter in University level

Awards/Achievements:
Gold medalist in Master of Pharmacy at University level.
DST – Inspire Fellowship

Professional Milestone:
Handled a Project as Principal Investigator under Research Promotion Scheme (Type – A) of A.I.C.T.E (File No.: 8023/BOR /RID/RPS (NER)-45/2010-11 worth Rs. – 15,50,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Lakh Fifty thousand only)

Industrial Exposures:
One month’s full time Industrial Training at Finop Drugs Pvt. Ltd.
Exposure obtained on:
Complete production process tablets, capsules and parenteral formulations.
Quality control systems, ideologies & procedures.
Labor management/Handling.
Documentation Procedures.
Production Planning & Inventory Controls.
Packaging procedures & formalities

Vocational Training:
Attended work shop on “Packaging for Export” conducted by Small Industries Service Institute, Gangtok (Sikkim) in collaboration with Indian
Institute of Packaging, Kolkata

Project Work:
M. Pharm:
On ‘Formulation and Evaluation of Matrix Tablet of Salbutamol sulphate’.
B. Pharm:
Patient case history as a part of Clinical Pharmacy regarding the prevalence rate of some common diseases including their Pathological reports and the drugs that were prescribed frequently for those particular diseases.
OTC drugs and Schedule N compliance

Publications:
Research Articles: 6, Namely:
‘Design, Development and In-vitro Evaluation of Directly Compressed Sustained Release Matrix Tablet of Famotidine’ Koushik Sen Gupta, Mridanga Raj Ray and Sekhar Kumar Bose; ‘Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology’ ; 1 (3): 2008 (Page No. 175 - 178).

‘Formulation Development and In-vitro Evaluation of Sustained Release Matrix Tablets of Salbutamol sulphate’ – Koushik Sen Gupta and Amitava Ghosh; ‘Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care’; 2 (3): 2010 (Page No. 222 - 227).

‘Design, Development, Optimization and Evaluation of Gastroretentive Floating Tablets of Atenolol’ – Koushik Sen Gupta, Sunil Kumar, Moumita Das, Rajesh Kumar, Abhijit Changder and Lakshmi Kanta Ghosh; ‘Der Pharmacia Lettre’; 5 (3): 2013 (Page No. 436 -
456).

‘Expedition of In-vitro Dissolution and In-vivo Pharmacokinetic Profiling of Sulphur Nanoparticles Based Antimicrobials’ – Koushik Sen Gupta, Samrat Roy Choudhury, Anirban Basu, Tanushree Nag, Manas Bhowmick and Arunava Goswami; ‘Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology’; 36: 2013 (Page No.
675 - 679).

‘Regression Analysis a tool for Optimization of Matrix Systems’–Koushik Sen Gupta and Lakshmi Kanta Ghosh; ‘Der Pharmacia Lettre’; 7 (7): 2015 (Page No. 124 – 136).

‘Statistical Optimization of Matrix Tablets using Linear Regression Analysis’ – Koushik Sen Gupta and Lakshmi Kanta Ghosh; ‘International Journal of Research in Pharmacy and Chemistry’; 5 (3): 2015 (Page No. 475 – 490)

Conferences:
(Oral and Poster Presentation) - 22, Namely :-
‘Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity of Frusemide’ – Abstract of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Mumbai – 2006. (GO-12, Page No.68).

‘Development and In-vitro Evaluation of Modified Release Tablets of Salbutalmol sulphate’ – Abstract of National Seminar on Research and Education in Pharmaceutical Sciences, M.P. – 2008.(GRYIP/REPS/ OP-12, Page No.09).

‘Model Fitting Analysis of In-vitro Dissolution Data for Salbutamol sulphate as a Function of Electrolyte in a Matrix Tablet’ - Abstract of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, New Delhi– 2008. (PH-18, Page No.005).

‘The Effect of Hydrogel on the Release Profile from
Microporous Osmotic Pump Tablets’ - Abstract of National Seminar on Advance Approaches in Drug Designing and Drug Targeting, M.P. – 2009. (DDDT/PP - 20, Page No.17).

‘The Effect of Citric Acid Added to Hydroxypropyl
methylcellulose (HPMC) Matrix Tablets on the Release Profile of Verapamil hydrochloride’ - Abstract of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Ahmedabed– 2009. (E - 40, Page No.516).

‘Investigation of the effect of pH modifier on drug release from Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose controlled release matrix tablets of an anti-asthmatic drug’ - Abstract of National Seminar on Modernization and Recent Advancement of Natural
Products, M.P. – 2012. (GRYIP/ENAPSRE/OP - 004, Page No.03).

‘Dissolution Enhancement of Simvastatin by Solid Dispersion and Inclusion’ - Abstract of National Seminar on Modernization and Recent Advancement of Natural Products, M.P. – 2012. (GRYIP/ENAPSRE/PP - 009, Page No.06).

‘Development of Correlations for a Statistically Optimized Monolithic Matrix System Containing Anti-asthmatic Drug’ – Abstract of IAPST International Conference on New Insights into Diseases and Recent Therapeutic Approaches, Kolkata – 2014. (IAPST/ABS/ P-58, Page No.29).

‘Free Radical Grafting Kinetics of Acrylamide onto a Tamarind Kernel Powder in the Presence of Ceric Ion’ – Abstract of IAPST International Conference on New Insights into Diseases and Recent Therapeutic Approaches, Kolkata – 2014. (IAPST/ABS/P-86, Page
No.43).

‘In vitro in vivo correlation and determining drug concentrations in blood from dissolution data’ - Abstract of National Seminar on Drug and Diseases: Role of Pharmacists and Doctors, Kolkata – 2016. (IAPST/ ABS/ P - 40, Page No. 20)

Instruments Handled:
UV-VIS Spectrophotometer (Single and Double Beam)
16-STATION TABLET PRESS
Dissolution Apparatus With Auto sample collector
H.P.L.C. and F.T.I.R

Other Activities
Attended QIP, AICTE, JU, Kolkata, January 2010
Attended QIP, AICTE, JU, Kolkata, June 2010

Professional Membership:
Life Member - Association Of Pharmacy Teachers India
(APTI) – SI/LM - 017

Future Goals

Growth