2.34901 DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS

This course aims to enable students to apply acquired knowledge of Pharmaceutics in the design and preparation of hard gelatine capsules and other specialised dosage forms and therapeutic systems; and to familiarise students with aspects of chemical and physical instability of drugs and emphasise the various approaches used in attaining quality assurance. On completion, the students should be able to explain the purpose of capsules as a dosage form, evaluate basic properties of capsule dosage forms, other forms of capsules including microcapsules and nanocapsules; appreciate the importance and need of high quality packaging materials as an integral component of drug products; explain the effect of environmental conditions on stability and shelf-life of drugs; Explain principles of quality assurance; and describe the various surgical dressing products.

Contact hours: 6 hours per week (2 Lectures, 1 tutorial, 3 hour practical).

Assessment: Test, assignments, practicals (60%) and final exam (40%)

Prerequisite: 2.24901

Text:

Aulton, M.E., 1988, Pharmaceutics; The Science of Dosage Form Design, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.