The pharmaceutics course will provide the fundamentals of pharmaceutical sciences, including the principle and application of various pharmaceutical dosage forms, aiming to provide the students with basic knowledge of pharmaceutical theories and technology. The two-semester course was designed to give background knowledge of the principles involved in the design and formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Pharmaceutics I provides an introductory overview of various aspects of pharmaceutical dosage forms, including stability, sterilization of parenteral products, and basic principles of pharmaceutical disperse systems. This course will introduce pharmaceutical liquid dosage forms, including solutions, aromatic waters, syrups, elixers, spirits, tinctures, fluid extracts, extracts, ophthalmic preparations, and parenteral preparations. The physicochemical components of these formulations, including buffers, tonicity, osmoticity, sterilization, and stability consideration will also be covered. This course will also provide an introduction to pharmaceutical disperse systems, including the definition of disperse systems, interfacial phenomena as related to the free energy of the disperse systems, general classification of surfactants used in pharmaceutical formulations, adsorption of surfactants at various interfaces, wetting, contact angle, phase behavior, micelle structures in surfactant systems, and the role of the surface activity and colloidal properties in solubilization of poorly water-soluble drugs.
Offered spring semester every year.