PROGETTAZIONE E SVILUPPO DEL FARMACOModule MODULO 3 TECNICA
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Rosario PIGNATELLOExpected Learning Outcomes
The module aims at giving the knowledge and skills necessary for the optimal formulation of the different drug dosage forms, at both a galenic or industrial level.
Course Structure
frontal lessons
Required Prerequisites
knowledge of general chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chermistry, physics.
Attendance of Lessons
The presence at 70% of lessons (minimum) is required
Detailed Course Content
1) Drug dosage forms
2) Galenic and industrial preformulation studies
3) Stability of drugs and medicinal products
4) Physico-chemical properties of drugs (solubility, logP/logD, hygroscopicity, crystallinity, polimorphism, etc.)
5) The main classes of pharmaceutical excipients
6) Elements of biopharmaceutics
Textbook Information
PHARMACEUTICAL PREFORMULATION the physicochemical properties of drug substances James Wells – Ellis Horwood Limited 1988.
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Writtent test with open and/or multiple questions; if required, integrative oral exam