The defense meeting for three TIPS International students, Tadese Tafese, Muhammad Bule, and Fazlullah Khan for the award of PhD degree held on Monday 30th December, 2019. Their theses respectively  titled “Design, synthesis, characterization, and antidiabetic agents of novel pyrrole derivatives: in-vitro α-glucosidase inhibition, kinetic, and molecular docking studies”, “Synthesis and α-glucosidase inhibitory activity evaluation of 2,4,6-triaryl pyrimidine derivatives as antidiabetic agents”, and “Role of epigenetic alterations in insulin signaling pathways genes involved in the development of Type 2 diabetes following rat islets cells exposure to sodium arsenite”.