Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
Pál Szilárd
assistant professor,
Department of Pharmaceutics and University Pharmacy
Number of hours/semester
Lectures: 14 hours
Practices: 0 hours
Seminars: 0 hours
Total of: 14 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OPE-MGT-T
- 1 Credit
- Pharmacy
- Elective module
- spring
OPG-C4E-T parallel
Course headcount limitations
min. 1 people – max. 50 people
Topic
Students can get acquainted in details with modified drug delivery technologies and special industrial drug manufacture (3D printing, manufacture of multi-layer tablets and osmotic preparations) and the importance of pharmaceutical excipients. Student will learn special manufacturing technologies through the demonstration of dosage forms already available in the pharmaceutical therapy.
Lectures
- 1. Theory of modified drug release - Pál Szilárd
- 2. Importance of excipients, patents of excipient-compositions - Kása Péter
- 3. Immediate drug-release (OraSolv, DuraSolv, Zydis technology) - Pál Szilárd
- 4. Sustained drug-release: Multiparticulate dosage forms I. (sustained release pellets in practice) - Pál Szilárd
- 5. Multiparticulate dosage forms II. (MUPS technology) - Pál Szilárd
- 6. Matrix systems I. (hydrophilic matrices) - Pál Szilárd
- 7. Matrix systems II. (hydrophobic matrices) - Pál Szilárd
- 8. Osmotic technology (EOP, OROS, L-OROS, GITS) - Pál Szilárd
- 9. Geometry based drug-release (Geomatrix, Procise, Smartrix technology) - Kása Péter
- 10. Chronotherapeutic systems (Geoclock technology) - Pál Szilárd
- 11. 3D printing in the field of modified drug delivery - Pál Szilárd
- 12. Site specific drug release (gastroretentive systems, colon-specific drug delivery) - Pál Szilárd
- 13. Halving of tablets, technology of halving-friendly tablets, concept of ,,ghost" tablets - Kása Péter
- 14. End-year test - Pál Szilárd
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
Notes
Recommended literature
James Swarbrick: Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology, Informa Healthcare, 2011
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
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Mid-term exams
During the end semester test 60 % should be reached.
Making up for missed classes
According to the Code of Studies and Examinations
Exam topics/questions
http://gytk.pte.hu
Examiners
Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars
- Kása Péter
- Pál Szilárd