Prof. (Dr.) R N Gupta, Vice President & Chairman, Hospital Pharmacy Division, IPA and  Professor of Pharmacy, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi has been conferred 'Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year Award 2018' by the hands of Dr Sudhakar Panda, Director, National Institute of Science, Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar and Dr. M. K. Mishra, Vice Chancellor, Centurion University, Bhubneswar at International Conference held at Bhubneswar organized by Indian Association of Pharmaceutical Scientist .& Technologist. Dr. Gupta has also received Eminent Pharmacist Award of IPA in 2017 and IPA President Oration Award 2018. In December 2018 he also received Prof. M L Khorana Best Paper Award in Pharmaceutics of IJPS during award Function of IPA .