Pharmaceutical Techonoly II


Purpose of this course is the theoretical and practical education of the students on the science of drug designing, development and production, including the drug delivery and administration systems to humans. (The aforementioned concern the syllabus covered by associate professor Avgoustakis)


Objectives

By completing this specific course, the student will have obtained a thorough view of design formulation, the basic pharmaceutical procedures about production and the processes concerning different types of formulations, as well as the quality control tests and their evaluation. The students participating at the practical exercises conducted within the academic course, are able to apply all the theoretical information of basic pharmaceutical processes and production of drug formulations in practice. (The aforementioned concern the syllabus covered by associate professor Avgoustakis)


Prerequisites

none


Syllabus

Presentation of the industrial production methods for solid and gas formulations, the auxiliary substances and the methods of evaluation and quality control. The correlation of working circumstances and the properties of bioactive molecules and excipients of formulation to the properties and the quality of the final product is thoroughly analyzed. Overview of the types of slow release products administered per os, and the release control mechanism. (The aforementioned concern the syllabus covered by associate professor Avgoustakis)

COURSE DETAILS

Level:

Type:

Undergraduate

(A-)


Instructors: Konstantinos Avgoustakis
Department: Department of Pharmacy
Institution: University of Patras
Subject: Health Sciences
Rights: CC - Attribution

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