Farmaceutická technológia

During the doctoral study, the student in this study program acquires knowledge in the field of pharmaceutical technology, focusing on the issues of composition, formulation, production, evaluation (testing), and quality assurance of medicines, whether individually prepared (compounded) or mass-produced (manufactured). The students will expand their knowledge about the conditions under which a drug and pharmaceutical excipient can be created into a drug, the regularities that govern drug formulations, and the relationships of drugs to the effect of drugs applied in them. In the course of study, the student learns to independently formulate a scientific problem, formulate a scientific hypothesis, and prepare and conduct a scientific experiment. The main goal of these activities is theoretical as well as practical mastery of methods used in pharmaceutical technology. The student's abilities after completing the study program will be based on framework topics, which are as follows:

a) pharmaceutical preparations, as systems composed of API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) and excipients, conditions for the coexistence of constituents of the medicinal product;

b) processes and facilities for the preparation and manufacture of medicinal products;

c) evaluating and ensuring the quality of medicinal products in terms of composition, technology, and structure;

d) constitutive, stabilising and correcting pharmaceutical excipients;

e) relationships between the medicinal products and the bioavailability of the API administered therein;

f) stability of medicinal products and the possibility of ensuring it;

g) dosage forms of higher generations, with a focus on nanoparticle systems and biological medicinal products.

Graduates from the Ph.D. study programme Pharmaceutical Technology, doctoral university study, will master the principles and methodology of scientific work. They will be competent to carry out professional and scientific activities in the field of pharmacy, pharmaceutical research, and pharmaceutical industry. The theoretical knowledge and practical skills acquired through their studies will also enable them to pursue the profession of researcher in related medical, pharmaceutical, and natural sciences, disciplines, and study programs such as analytical chemistry, physics, biophysics, physical chemistry, microbiology, immunology, biotechnology, materials technology. Knowledge and skills will also be applied in solving multidisciplinary problems with links to pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, clinical pharmacy, etc. Absolvents of the program have the ability to work independently scientifically and bring their own solutions in these disciplines, scientific fields, and study programs.

The requirement for completing the study program is knowledge and development of new methods of research and development of drugs focused on their design, preparation, production, analysis, and evaluation. A successful graduate of doctoral studies must prove that he has not only required theoretical knowledge in the field, but also practical research skills in the field of pharmaceutical technology and is able to work independently. At the same time, he has to be able to present results of his own research to the professional community at conferences and scientific events and publish articles in scientific journals.

Graduates from the PhD. studies may find employment in the framework of higher education as university teachers or scientific research workers in universities focused on pharmacy, medicine, healthcare science, chemistry, and physics and in the institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. At present, graduates are required mainly at workplaces in healthcare, such as the State Institute for the Drug Control, which provides supervision over the quality, effectiveness, and safety of drugs and medical devices. Graduates of the study programme can also find employment in pharmaceutical companies dedicated to the production and evaluation of medicines, control laboratories (clinical analysis, quality control of APIs and drugs), as well as in companies that carry out custom production of pharmaceutical excipients, nanoparticle systems, or use biotechnological processes.

Graduates of the Pharmaceutical Technology study programme at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Comenius University Bratislava will master the principles and methodology of scientific work and will be able to perform professional and scientific activities in the field of pharmaceutical technology, pharmacy, and pharmaceutical research. The theoretical knowledge and practical skills acquired through their studies will also enable them to pursue the profession of researcher in related medical, pharmaceutical, and natural sciences, disciplines and study programmes such as analytical chemistry, physics, biophysics, physical chemistry, microbiology, immunology, biotechnology, materials technology, medical chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, clinical pharmacy. Graduates of the field will have the ability to work independently scientifically, bring their own solutions, and thus contribute to the development of scientific knowledge in these disciplines, scientific fields and study programmes. They will have prerequisites for successful employment in leading teams in a wide range of scientific and research institutions focused on pharmaceutical, medical, or natural sciences, and they will be professionally prepared to work creatively in scientific institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, at various levels of research.

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