Applied Pharmacy
The Applied Pharmacy or industrial pharmacy is a branch of the pharmacy , which research and teaching based on science operates with application focus. The aim of applied pharmacy is to promote the use of scientific methods in practice and to impart the ability to apply pharmaceutical knowledge in a targeted manner in an industrial process of drug research and manufacture.
Their main characteristic is that pharmaceutical methods and technologies are not researched and developed as part of basic research, but are used specifically with the aim of developing or manufacturing ( galenics ) a medical or pharmaceutical product ( drug ) (applied research and development). Therefore, the development takes place in a field of tension between legal requirements, quality of the product, requirements of marketing and above all the benefit of the patient.
The areas of knowledge in applied pharmacy include basic mathematical and natural science subjects and classic pharmaceutical subjects such as B. Pharmacology and Toxicology . This range of subjects is supplemented by relevant subjects for the pharmaceutical industry, examples are: Regulatory affairs ( drug approval , sum of all legally required activities that are necessary in the development and approval of a drug), GMP ( Good Manufacturing Practice ), ICH guidelines ( International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use ), statistical test planning, process engineering , pharmacokinetics , modern analytical methods for drug testing , genetically engineered drugs, pharmaceutical nanotechnology, modern dosage forms and patent law.
Applied pharmacy thus combines classic pharmaceutical methods with modern pharmaceutical technologies and processes. In this sense, it is therefore not a pharmaceutical sub-discipline, but an independent degree program that encompasses a large number of areas of knowledge within pharmacy and requires interdisciplinary thinking.
The study of applied pharmacy serves to train industrial pharmacists.
Individual evidence
- ↑ W. Kern: Applied Pharmacy. 3. Edition. Scientific publishing company, Stuttgart 1951.