Industrial Pharmacy I.

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This course is the first part of the Industrial Pharmacy course series designed for students, with emphasis unit operations, technology, and formulation of pharmaceuticals. This is especially useful to professional students who are interested in pursuing careers in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry. The basic understanding of pharmaceutical operations as they are applied to semi-solid and modified release dosage forms from laboratory scale to manufacturing scale will be discussed in lectures and all students will conduct hands on experiments. In addition, quality and regulatory processes will be outlined for semi-solid and modified release dosage forms. Prerequisites: Completion 31 units of undergraduate GE including CORE 001 and CORE 002 , 2 semesters General Chemistry CHEM 025 , CHEM 026 OR CHEM 027 , CHEM 028 , and 2 semesters Organic Chemistry CHEM 121 , CHEM 122 or CHEM 123 , CHEM 124 , and BIOL 061 , BIOL 116 , BIOL 117 , BIOL 118 or on permission of instructor.