about Pharmaceutics Department

Introduction

Pharmaceutics is concerned with the scientific and technological aspects of the design and manufacture of dosage forms for medicines. An understanding of pharmaceutics is therefore vital to all pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists who are involved in converting a drug or a potential drug substance into a medicine that can be delivered safely, efficiently and conveniently to the patient.
The department of pharmaceutics and industrial pharmacy seeks the optimal development of a drug delivery product or device and its subsequent performance in the delivery of the drug from the device following its administration to a patient. The curriculum emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach encompassing drug design, physical pharmacy, biopharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, different dosage forms and pharmaceutical technology processes. In a broad sense, it involves: preparation and stability of suitable dosage forms, design and evaluation of dosing regimens and dosage forms (delivery systems) that overcome barriers and optimize drug action and minimize adverse effects, understanding barriers that influence drug absorption and prevent drug reaching its site of action, quantitative characterization of both the drug concentration-effect relationship and the concentration-time profile of the drug after it enters the body. Courses assigned by Pharmaceutics department are a major component of the Pharm.D curriculum. The department offers master degree in pharmaceutical sciences (Pharmaceutics).

Vision

The department aims to achieve excellence in innovative pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology education, scholarly research, service to the profession and thus improve the healthcare of the Saudi community.

Mission

The mission of the department of pharmaceutics is committed to offer pharmaceutical curricula that cope with the rapid development in the field to both undergraduate and graduate students, prepare a pharmacist with various skills in the formulation, evaluation and industrialization of different pharmaceutical dosage forms and advanced drug delivery systems and conducting high-quality research projects.