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The Women's Forum of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India has been initiated with a view concerns and opinions of womens who make up a significant part of the pharmacy teaching profession. With the increasing number of women pharmacy graduates, the women's forum encourages and supports every member to help them pursue effective careers in pharmacy. As a forum of educators, women's forum is dedicated to raise the career profile of women in pharmacy profession.

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APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

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    APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

    SUSTAINABLE PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIES
    IN MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGING

    May - Aug, 2026
    • Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Vandana B. Patravale
    • Frequency: 3 issues per year

Contents

Editorial

Prof. Vandana B. Patravale

Chief Editor, APTI Women's Forum Newsletter

SUSTAINABLE PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIES
IN MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGING

Review Article

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Programming the fate of medicines: An eco-by-design strategy for zero pharmaceutical residues

Manjiri M. Shastri1*, Swati D. Kshirsagar2, Chetana K. Choudhary1

1) Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSPM’s Rajarshi Shahu College of Pharmacy and Research, Tathawade, Pune 33.
2) Department of Pharmaceutics, JSPM’s Rajarshi Shahu College of Pharmacy and Research, Tathawade, Pune 33.

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Sustainable drug delivery systems: Building a greener future from design to disposal

Aruna Rawat*, Ritu Dahiya

School of Pharmacy, Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be a university), Faridabad, Haryana 121002-India

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Eco-friendly pharmaceutical formulation and production strategies and future perspectives

Sagar Sahu, Gunjan Kalyani*

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy Raipur – 493111, Chhattisgarh, India

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Sustainability of single use technology in the manufacturing of biologics

Vincy Vinod1, Nandeeni Punase1, Rakhi Khabia2, Arpna Indurkhya*1

1) Sri Aurobindo Institute of Pharmacy, Indore, 2) SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) SPTM, Indore

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Beyond waste reduction: Solvent recovery and circular manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry

Arati Chourasiya*

Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, M.P.

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Eco-architecting the drug lifecycle: Green engineering and circular design in modern pharmaceutics

Binu Raina1*, Abhimanyu2, Ashwani Kumar Dhingra3, Sakshi Bajaj3

1) Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India. 2) Chaudhary Devi Lal College of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India. 3) Global Research Institute of Pharmacy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, India.

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Closing-the-loop in pharma: How green chemistry, continuous manufacturing, and mono-materials are shaping tomorrow

Neel Thanki, Meenal Rane*

Pharmaceutics, SVKM’s Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy (Autonomous), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

From protection to sustainability: Transforming packaging for oral solid dosage forms

Chetna Modi*, Sejal Amodwala, Kalpana Patel, Tejal Gandhi

Anand Pharmacy College, Anand, Gujarat, India

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Balancing sterility and sustainability: Novel strategies in ophthalmic packaging

Tripti Nath, Deepak Patel, Preeti K Suresh*

University Institute of Pharmacy, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur (Chhattisgarh)

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

From excretion to ecology: The strategic imperative of eco-pharmacovigilance

Khushi Hardia, Kartik Salunke, Vaishali Raghuwanshi*

Sri Aurobindo Institute of Pharmacy, Indore

APTI Women’s Forum Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 | May - Aug, 2026

Large language models as the cognitive layer of next generation digital twins in pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging

Tanvi D. Patel, Meenal M. Rane*

Department of Pharmaceutics, SVKM’s Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy (Autonomous), Vile Parle West, Mumbai – 400056, Maharashtra, India.

APTI 2nd Women Leadership Conclave

2nd Leadership APTI Women's Residential Conclave in Udaipur, Rajasthan: A Transformative Gathering in City of Lakes on 29th - 30th March 2024. It proved to be a noteworthy event which aimed at empowering and uniting women from pharmaceutical academia and enhancing leadership skills amongst the participants. Fifty selected delegates from different part of the country.