MAHE Research Director gets lifetime achievement award

Team Udayavani, Oct 21, 2019, 12:57 PM IST

Manipal: Dr N Udupa, Director, Research (Health Sciences), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal) was honoured with the Shri Bhojraj Panjamool Life Time Achievement Award by the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) at the 24^th  Annual National Convention of APTI, organized by DIT University at Dehradun last week. The award recognizes Dr Udupa’s contribution towards enrichment of pharmacy profession through academic, research and industry activities.

Dr. N. Udupa has guided more than 100 MPharm and 30 PhD students and has received funding from various agencies like UGC, CSIR, DST, DBT, ICMR, AICTE and several industries. Dr. Udupa has published more than 500 articles in national and international journals and is the editor of 12 books.

He has nine Indian patents to his credit and more than 425 conference presentations and delivered 125 guest lectures. He is recipient of many prestigious awards such as Premchand Dandiya Endowment Trust Award, Principal of the Year award from APTI, 54^th IPC trust Pharmacy Teacher of the year Award, Pharmaceutical Scientist of the year award IAPST, IPA Fellowship Award 2009, STARS Award, Prof C J Shishoo Award from APTI, Acharya P C Ray Gold Medal Award, “Schroff  Memorial National Award” by IHPA in 2012.