Teaching

PharmD Courses

PHAR 531 Biopharmaceutics I 3 Credit hours

Topics covered include the physicochemical principles of pharmacy, such as acid-base theory, solubility, physical states of drugs, thermodynamics, drug stability, excipients, surfactants, dispersions, polymers, drug delivery, chemical compatibility and interactions of drugs in various dosage forms.

PHAR 532 Biopharmaceutics II 3 Credit hours

Topics covered include mechanisms of both immediate and sustained drug release in formulations involving solid and semi-solid systems; introduction to novel drug delivery systems; drug pre-formulation, the drug approval processes, and regulations governing the pharmaceutical industry; drug preparation, liberation, absorption and stability dosage.

Pre-req: PHAR 531.

Undergraduate Courses

BSPS 201 Intro to Pharmaceutical Sci2 Credit hours

This course introduces students to the pharmaceutical sciences. Topics include an overview of drug discovery, development, basic principles of drug properties, drug structure, drug delivery, drug disposition, drug action and therapy.

Pre-req: CHM 212 with a minimum grade of C and BSC 121 with a minimum grade of C.

BSPS 202 Drug Regulatory Affairs3 Credit hours

This course provides an overview of pharmaceutical regulatory affairs, particularly USFDA’s regulation of drug products approved in the Untied States.

Pre-req: BSPS 101 with a minimum grade of D and BSPS 201 with a minimum grade of D.

Masters Courses

MSPS 531 Regulatory Affairs 3 Credit hours

An overview of USFDA’s regulation on drug. Topics covered include pharmaceutical regulatory agencies and organizations around the world and their International Regulatory Audits for Pharma, International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines, Pharmacopoeias and national formulary, US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA): History of USFDA Law and Regulation, GLP, MMP, NDA, and ANDA.

MSPS 561 Biopharmaceutics I 3 Credit hours

Topics covered include the physicochemical principles of pharmacy, such as acid-base theory, solubility, physical states of drugs, thermodynamics, drug stability, excipients, surfactants, dispersions, polymers, drug delivery, chemical compatibility and interactions of drugs in various dosage forms.

MSPS 562 Biopharmaceutics II 3 Credit hours

Topics covered include mechanisms of both immediate and sustained drug release in formulations involving solid and semi-solid systems; introduction to novel drug delivery systems; drug pre-formulation, the drug approval processes, and regulations governing the pharmaceutical industry; drug preparation, liberation, absorption and stability dosage.

MSPS 632 Prod Dev by Quality Design 3 Credit hours

This course gives an overview of concepts and approaches to pharmaceutical product Quality by Design (QbD).  Topics covered include definitions and scope of key elements of QbD; molecular design of drug product formulations; approaches and applications of QbD for liquid formulations; application of QbD principles for lyophilized formulation development; application of QbD for scale-up of mixing processes; application of QbD for vaccine drug product development; QbD strategies for visible and subvisible  protein particle inspections and QbD for the distribution of environmentally sensitive pharmaceutical products.