PHAR0003-1 : Pharmaceutical tehcnologies and biopharmacy (part II)

Study Programmes 2015-2016

PHAR0003-1

Pharmaceutical tehcnologies and biopharmacy (part II)

Duration :

25h Th, 5h SEM

Number of credits :

Master in pharmacy (120 ECTS)		4

Lecturer :

Brigitte Evrard

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

This course is devoted to the study of Pharmaceutical technology and biopharmacy which represents the science of transformation of the active substances into drugs. This one can contain one or more active substances and must be administered in the best adapted form, which generally claims the presence of excipients and a conditioning selected on scientific bases.

Learning outcomes of the course :

The objective of this teaching is the training of the student to the pharmaceutical formulation in terms of composition, manufacture and evaluation based on physicochemical and biopharmaceutical knowledge previously acquired. The purpose of it is to familiarize the student with the marketed pharmaceutical products This course is devoted to the description of the dosage forms manufactured in pharmaceutical industry while insisting again on the indissociable character of the technological and biopharmaceutical aspects. The subjects are the formulation of the solid oral dosage forms (tablet with conventional or modified release, spheroids, stripped forms), transdermic system, pulmonary, intranasal, intraocular, intra-uterin and intravaginal as well as the injectable formulations.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Physico-chemical principles applicated to Pharmaceutical Technology.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

In line exercices

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

approximately 2h/week in Q2.