Regulatory Aspects and Industrial Pharmacy
This module deals with the organization of a pharmaceutical manufacturing site, the quality regime for pharmaceutical production and its regulation, professional roles within the pharmaceutical business and how the context in which pharmaceutical product and service innovation takes place.
Natural Product Analysis and Regulation
This module introduces natural products (analysis and regulation) and their importance in pharmaceutical sciences.
Spectroscopic Methods for Drug Analysis
This module is concerned with the theory and applications of spectroscopic methods to pharmaceutical analysis including drug product qualification and drug discovery and development.
Molecular Pharmaceutics and Advanced Drug Delivery
This module is concerned with advanced drug delivery, with factors influencing drug absorption and distribution and related in vitro methods for predicting and explaining drug absorption from the intestinal tract.
Biopharmaceutical Sciences
This module is concerned with the properties of biopharmaceuticals, their stability issues, methods of characterisations and analytical aspects, biosimilar products as well as formulation and secondary processing of large therapeutic molecules.
Pharmaceutical and Medical Nanotechnology
This module deals with the potential applications of nanotechnology to the practice of medicine (diagnosis, treatment and follow up of human disease), the relevance of toxicological studies related to the use/exposure of nanomaterials and Regulatory Policies of nanomaterials.
Drug Discovery and Development
This module provides an overview of the drug discovery and development process and a detailed knowledge of the principles and concepts of pharmacology.
Biotechnology
This module covers the characteristics of gene structure and expression, gene products and their properties, genetic engineering, and methods of upstream and downstream processes in biotechnological manufacturing.
Formulation Development and Evaluation
This module provides knowledge and understanding of present physical methods used in preformulation as well as formulation and processing of liquid, semi-solid and solid pharmaceutical preparations.
Professional Skills in Pharmaceutical Sciences
This module is concerned with the practice and development of competencies in laboratory techniques, research skills, statistical methods, analytical validation and effective communication in the pharmaceutical sciences in preparation for a career in the industry.
