The BOMBAY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY has completed 50 years of its existence
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The idea of establishing the Bombay College of Pharmacy (BCP) was formulated under
the leadership of the Late Prof. M. L. Khorana in 1956, in the form of a
short term course called “Practising Pharmacists Training (P.P.T.) course”
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A year later, in 1957, the Diploma course was started and BCP was formally constituted
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In 1966, the building at Kalina was inaugurated and BCP hosted the 18th Indian Pharmaceutical
Congress
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In 1970, BCP was affiliated to the Mumbai University for the B. Pharm. course
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In 1973, the college also received its first research grant from CSIR. Since then
several important events have marked the progress of BCP
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1976-The UNESCO Microbiology workshop
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1977-The Second Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Congress jointly with the 28th I.P.C.A.
and thePharma Expo – 77
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1981-The Research Society of the Bombay College of Pharmacy was formed
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1982-The M.S.D. auditorium, with seating capacity of 500 was opened
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1984-The Silver Jubilee of the college was celebrated and an International Symposium
on “Advances in Drug Delivery System” was held
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1987-The Vasvik Research Wing was inaugurated and an International Symposium on
“Controlled Release Dosage Forms” was held and the Staff Quarters for senior faculty
members constructed
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1988-M. K. Rangnekar Memorial Laboratory was inaugurated
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1990-1993-Foundation and opening of “Bioavailability Centre”
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1993-International Symposium on “Update on Bioavailability and Bioequivalence” and
Permanent Affiliation Granted By University of Mumbai
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1995-Inauguration of “Ramesh Banatwala Memorial Industrial Pharmacy Laboratory
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1996-1997-Donation of Rs. 600,000 and 1,000,000 from E. Merck Ltd. And German Remedies
for Renovation of E. Merck Laboratory and Chemistry Laboratory, respectively
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1998-Golden Jubilee IPCA Conference Jointly with FAPA Conference
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2001-Patents Awareness Workshop in Collaboration with TIFAC – Govt. of India
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2002-Establishment of Academy for Clinical Excellence (ACE) in Collaboration with
Pfizer Global Research
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2005-Establishment of the Nihchal Israni Microbiological Laboratory in the MKR Drug
Testing Facility. Renovation of the Students Reading Room and setting up of the
Computer Centre.
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2008-Golden Jubilee Celebrations. An International Symposium "Designing the future
.... New Medicines and New Methods" was conducted on 18th and 19th Jan. 2008 at
Hyatt Regency. Mumbai.
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2008- Accreditation for five years by NBA
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2011- Approval for Postgraduate course in Pharmaceutical analysis with intake for
18. Course started in 2012-13.
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2013 –Received Best Industry Linked Institute in Pharmacy category from AICTE-CII
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2014 –Received Best Industry Linked Institute in Pharmacy category from AICTE-CII
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2015 –Received Best Industry Linked Institute for Pharmacy in mentors category from AICTE-CII
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2016 –Ranked as 6th Best Pharmacy College in India by NIRF
In the effort to be the premier institute, BCP has been in the forefront with regard
to undergraduate pharmacy education as well as its research programs for training
Master’s and Doctoral students. An indication of the insight of the faculty in conducting
nationally and industrially relevant research is evident from the fact that the
faculty at BCP has been recipients of over Rs. 100 million as research grants from
AICTE, DST, UGC, CSIR, ICMR, and Rs 10 million in research grants from the corporate
sector. The funding has made BCP self-sufficient in several important facilities
like spectrophotometers, HPLC, GC, HPTLC, flash chromatography, Silicon Graphics
Computers, computer clusters, molecular modeling software, ultra-low temperature
storage media, high speed centrifuges, laser doppler flowmeter, plethysmometer,
electrophoresis equipment, Gel electrophoresis reader, spheronizer, granulators,
DSC, freeze driers, microwave and parallel synthesizers etc.
The student community of BCP besides being academically excellent has also shown
its talent in various extra-curricular activities.