The PG department
of Chemistry and Physics of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, jointly organized
an INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR on “Role of science and technology to combat
covid-19” under the aegis of C.V Raman Science Society. Dr. Poonam Sharma,
formulation Chemist, Reco-Chem Nisku, Alberta, Canada was the keynote speaker.
Her talk was focused on different R&D Projects initiated by scientists focusing
five major clinical treatments, drug screening, vaccine development, test
methods and formulation of cleanliness and safety products for society. As a
formulation chemist she gave an overview of hand sanitizers, hard surface
cleaners and disinfectants and testing protocols to make the products effective
to combat COVID-19. Dr. Venus Singh Mithu, from Department of Chemistry, Guru
Nanak Dev University, Amritsar spoke on NMR Spectroscopy in Structural Biology:
From Molecules to Viruses. In his talk he discussed principle and application
of NMR spectroscopy in the field of structural biology and how this technique
is instrumental in studying structures of large Bio-molecules. Dr. Neha
Sardana, from Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Ropar
spoke on the topic “Role of future technologies and materials to combat
COVID-19”.Her speech was focused on the application of Nano technology to
discover new devices to combat SARSCOV-2 and COVID -19.
She also discussed
the devices made by their team for testing and preventing COVID-19. The webinar
was very informative and beneficial for awakening the society for the fight
against COVID-19. Dr. Neelam Sharma, Head of the department of Chemistry
thanked all the resource persons, participants and organizers. Mrs. Saloni
Sharma, Head of the Department of Physics and Dr. Ekta Khosla, Associate Prof.
Department of Chemistry acted as Moderator. Principal Dr. Mrs. Ajay Sareen
congratulated both the departments for successful organization of the webinar.
More than 800 candidates were registered for the webinar.
