Manufacturing Pharmacy Lab

Catalog description

This undergraduate level course provides engaging hands on experiences in techniques utilized in Drug Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry. This course mirrors practices associated with manufacturing large-scale batches of products while keeping accurate and detailed records of the manufacturing process through use of a batch record and recording appropriate observations. Specifically students will get advanced hands on experience using manufacturing level equipment to produce creams and lotions, tablets and capsule formulations and delve into the techniques such as homogenizer, tablet press and coating and important quality control involved in drug development and testing such as hardness, fragility and desintegration testing as well as learning how to operate capsule filling equipment and spheronizer, extruder and granulator. Students who register for PHS 450 must also register for a PHS 450 laboratory. For example, if you register for PHS 450 you must, at the same time, register for a section of PHS 450L .