5th National Congress of Pharmacy and Biochemistry Students

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Figure 1: officilal flyer of the V peruvian national congress of pharmacy and biochemistry students

The Peruvian Association of Pharmacy and Biochemistry Students (APEFYB, Peru) aims to promote the professional development of students of national and private schools and faculties of Pharmacy and Biochemistry in Peru, in addition to addressing issues related to Public Health, pharmaceutical knowledge and the generation of links with student associations in the world through its affiliation to the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF) representing Peru as its national association.

Framed within these objectives, every year our most important event takes place: The V Peruvian National Congress of Students of Pharmacy and Biochemistry where we promote the improvement of skills and increase the knowledge of students in different thematic areas as well as social events to share with all members nationwide. In 2019, the last national congress was held in person and in 2021 the fifth edition will be held in its virtual format. The planning of the V CONAPEFYB began in advance, a reception committee was formed with certain functions and committees were formed with volunteers to work as a team focused on each of the aspects to carry out this activity.

Among the committees formed we

can mention the academic, logistics, reception, social activities, cultural events, and media committees. The event was completely free, so there was no treasury commission, and the Zoom account was provided by the university that was in charge of the organization: María Auxiliadora University.

There were 14 presentations throughout this congress which included topics such as: Technovigilance of medical devices, Elaboration of magistral formulas and officinal preparations, Importance of Research in Natural Products to obtain value added products and to evaluate the safety effect, Andean Sanitary Regulation of Cosmetic Products, Quality Control in the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry, Fragrance chemistry and its applications in cosmetics, Errors in Magistral Formulation and Possible Solutions, Bioinformatics applied to the development of vaccines and diagnostic tools, Hair Cosmetics, Hair Straightening, Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Pharmaceutical Office Practice; Coffee, mycotoxins and climate change, and a session was held regarding soft skills.

Figure 2. Virtual session

In addition to the zoom sessions on the aforementioned topics, there was a scientific contest where members of all APEFYB subsidiaries participated; a session to learn more about APEFYB and IPSF where we were accompanied by the Chairperson of PARO, Mr. Hugo Napán and a social event to elect the ‘Miss’ and ‘Mister’ of the event.

Finally, the entire reception committee worked hard to make this event a success, the response was positive and we had 632 participants. We hope that the next congress will be in person and that we can again receive students from abroad as in the last national congress that was in person in 2019 in Trujillo.

No doubt our branch

working very

hard CONAPEFYB 2022! in for Iquitos the is VI

Figure 3. Dr. Enrique Alia's presentation for his session on the errors in magistral formulation and possible solutions.

Figure 4. Presentation of "Opportunities with IPSF" by the CP of APEFyB Peru 2021-2022