Aim:

To prepare students for future success through up-to-date courses in Pharmaceutics and to develop a rigorous scientific attitude, enabling them to serve pharmacy and other health-related professions and improve quality of life.

Objectives:

• Disseminate pharmaceutics knowledge through quality teaching that develops analytical and intellectual capabilities, self-reliance, and continued self-education.
• Promote interdepartmental, interfaculty, and international collaborative research.
• Enable students to formulate and prepare pharmaceutical products.
• Enable students to perform qualitative and quantitative techniques to assess the quality and quantity of raw materials and pharmaceutical products.
• Prepare students to provide drug information and education to communities and patients about medications and medical devices.
• Develop students' understanding of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of essential and commonly used drugs.
• Enable students to plan, design, and conduct research using appropriate methodologies.
• Develop presentation, promotion, marketing, business administration, numerical, and computational skills.
• Develop communication, time management, critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and teamwork skills.
• Prepare students to fulfill responsibilities in compliance with legal, ethical, and professional rules.
• Encourage lifelong learning and continuous improvement of professional knowledge and skills.
• Prepare students to manage the safe and efficient distribution of medications and participate in quality assurance and improvement programs.
• Promote an ethical professional attitude and ongoing maintenance of competence through lifelong learning.

Research Areas:

• Solubility enhancement of poorly soluble drugs and development of suitable dosage forms.
• Design, development, and evaluation of immediate-release dosage forms.
• Taste masking of bitter-tasting drugs using ion-exchange resins.
• Design, development, and evaluation of self-emulsifying drug delivery systems.
• Design, development, and evaluation of gastro-retentive drug delivery systems.
• Design of novel drug delivery systems using natural excipients.
• Formulation and development of bilayer tablets.
• Formulation and development of extended-release dosage forms.
• Formulation and characterization of nanostructured lipid carrier-based nanogels for topical delivery.
• Design, development, and evaluation of microemulsions for transdermal drug delivery.

List of Faculty Members with Qualifications

Department: Pharmaceutics