What do we do?
The Division of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics conducts teaching and research within the field of drug targeting and delivery. Our aim is to design drug products / medicines that deliver a drug to the right location at the right dose at the right time.
What are our research interests?
- Nano- and microparticulate medicines and diagnostics
- Drug targeting to the immune system
- Vaccine development
- Dermatopharmaceutics
- Drug delivery to the lung
- Pharmaceutical biophysics
- Delivery of drugs to combat infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance
- Assessment of formulation effects on pharmacokinetics
- Preclinical toxicology of novel formulation excipients
- Cell culture models in biopharmaceutics and pre-formulation
- Formulation development for industry and compounding pharmacies
For more information about the research of individual division members, please click here.
What do we teach?
- Basics of formulation science
- Basics of biopharmaceutics and the impact of formulations on drug pharmacokinetics
- Methods of manufacturing medicines for industry and compounding pharmacies
- Quality control and assurance in the manufacture of medicines
- Mechanisms of drug targeting
- Innovative formulations: Micro- and nanomedicines
- Formulation of biopharmaceuticals
- Formulation of cosmetics
- Sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry
- Basics of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
For more information about our courses, exam schedules, and available Bachelors/Masters research projects, please click here.
Research infrastructure
- Cell culture models for toxicology and permeability assessment
- BSL2 microbiology lab
- Preclinical rodent models for PK and PD studies
- Aerosol characterization and delivery in preclinical rodent models
- Nano- and microparticle characterisation suite