Advanced Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery

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This course will use principles of chemistry, biology, and mathematics to provide an understanding of the fundamental concepts of drug formulation and development, including discussions of the crucial physicochemical and biopharmaceutical characteristics necessary for drug absorption. Students will integrate these principles to understand issues in the rationale and selection of dosage forms and drug delivery systems as well as their role in drug product development. Specific examples of modern systems such as transdermal drug-delivery systems, liposomes, implants, monoclonal antibodies, and other biologic products will also be discussed. In the final week of this course, the basic concepts in development and application of analytical procedures, introduction to important bioanalysis techniques such as chromatography, mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry, quantitative method development and validation, will be discussed. 3 credit hours, didactic