LPU scientist gets award at US

Our Correspondent

Phagwara, November 21

Rubiya Khursheed, a scientist at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University (LPU), has shared about her patented herbal medicine with 15 Nobel Laureates, 6,000 scientists and 600 pharmacy industry giants in the US at a pharmacy conference ‘AAPS (American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists) PharmSci 360’, held at Henry B Gonzalez Convention Centre, San Antonio (Texas), in the US.

The title of her work was ‘Exploring the Role of Synbiotics as Carrier to Solidify Self-Nano Emulsifying Drug Delivery System’. Rubiya was awarded the ‘Certificate of Acknowledgement’ under the signatures of AAPS president Dr Dale Eric Wurster.

Rubiya also shares that the two important constituents of her medicine are easily available in the market — haldi (turmeric) and friendly bacteria (pro-biotics).

To get the desired product, Rubiya enhanced the solubility of the two-made emulsion of these; and increased the nature of their solubility for solidification and stability. For these processes, she preferred non-toxic matter.

Prior to her product, the dosage that used to be was of 500 mg, has now come down to mere 5 mg. Rubiya’s medicine, which is totally non-synthetic and without any side-effects, is to control ‘diabetes’.

Hailing from Bagh-e-Mehtab, Sri Nagar (J&K), a PhD scholar at the LPU; Rubiya wants to contribute much in the name of the university, which guided her to see her work gets recognition on a prestigious international platform. She wants that medical formulations should be developed into economical products so that everybody would be able to use these in an easy manner.

LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal congratulated Rubia for her research.

Rubiya is currently working on development of Nano carriers for improving the oral bio-availability of probiotics under the supervision of Senior Dean Dr Monica Gulati and Dr Sachin Kumar at the LPU.

She has already published nine research papers in reputed international journals, including ‘Drug Discovery Today’, ‘European Journal of Pharmacology’ and ‘Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology.