PHA752 Integrated Pharmaceutics/Biopharmaceutics: in Pharmaceutical Development/Formulation

[3–0, 3 cr.]

The course relates the physicochemical properties of the active pharmaceutical ingredient to its biopharmaceutical and therapeutic performance. Integrating the concepts of modern pharmaceutics, drug delivery, dosage form design and biopharmaceutics will enable the graduate to create innovative solutions to overcome drug limitations, particularly for biologics. The graduate will acquire fundamental and advanced insights into drug targeting, gene delivery systems and nanomedicine. In addition, excipient selection, formulation techniques, scaling-up procedures and manufacturing considerations are briefly discussed to bridge the gap between research and real-world practice.