(Compulsory course / Teaching hours per week: 3 / Laboratory hours per week: 9 / Assessment: final exam at the end of each term or September / Credits: 4)
C. Demetzos (Professor), Μ. Vlachou (Assistant Professor)
The Pharmaceutical Technology I course apart from encompassing the physicochemical principles met in the field of Pharmacy, it refers to the preparation and properties of the pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Subjects covered include:
• Thermodynamic principles
• Micrometrics
• Rheology and admixture of powders and pellets
• Pulverization and drying of solid dosage forms
• Solutions-Coarse dispersions
• Rheology of semisolids
• Drug formulations
• Drug interactions and incompatibilities
• Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Nanoparticle Production Process, Nanoparticle Characterization, Pharmaceutical and Medical Applications,
• Nanodrugs in clinical practice
• 4th Generation Polymeric Colloids
• Dendrimeric Transfer and Release Systems of Bioactive Cells
• Polymeric Cells cross-linking capability as a base for the development of dendrimers with medicinal properties
• Lipid nanocolloidal transfer and release systems
• Thermotropic Properties of Liposome Building Units
• Liposome Applications in Pharmaceutical and Medicine
• Guidelines for Successful industrial production of liposomal drugs