Pharmaceutical Technology

During the doctoral study, the student in this study program acquires knowledge in the field of pharmaceutical technology, which includes galenic pharmacy, focusing on the issues of composition, formulation, production, evaluation (testing), and quality assurance of medicines, whether individually prepared (compounded) or mass-produced (manufactured). The students will expand their knowledge about the conditions under which a drug and pharmaceutical excipient can be created into a drug, the regularities that govern drug formulations, and the relationships of drugs to the effect of drugs applied in them. In the course of study, the student learns to independently formulate a scientific problem, formulate a scientific hypothesis, and prepare and conduct a scientific experiment. The main goal of these activities is theoretical as well as practical mastery of methods used in pharmaceutical technology. The student's abilities after completing the study program will be based on framework topics, which are as follows:
a) pharmaceutical preparations, as systems composed of API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) and excipients, conditions for the coexistence of constituents of the medicinal product;
b) processes and facilities for the preparation and manufacture of medicinal products;
c) evaluating and ensuring the quality of medicinal products in terms of composition, technology, and structure;
d) constitutive, stabilising and correcting pharmaceutical excipients;
e) relationships between the medicinal products and the bioavailability of the API administered therein;
f) stability of medicinal products and the possibility of ensuring it;
g) dosage forms of higher generations, with a focus on nanoparticle systems and biological medicinal products.
Graduates from the Ph.D. study programme Pharmaceutical Technology, doctoral university study, will master the principles and methodology of scientific work. They will be competent to carry out professional and scientific activities in the field of pharmacy, pharmaceutical research, and pharmaceutical industry. The theoretical knowledge and practical skills acquired through their studies will also enable them to pursue the profession of researcher in related medical, pharmaceutical, and natural sciences, disciplines, and study programs such as analytical chemistry, physics, biophysics, physical chemistry, microbiology, immunology, biotechnology, materials technology. Knowledge and skills will also be applied in solving multidisciplinary problems with links to pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, clinical pharmacy, etc. Absolvents of the program have the ability to work independently scientifically and bring their own solutions in these disciplines, scientific fields, and study programs.
The requirement for completing the study program is knowledge and development of new methods of research and development of drugs focused on their design, preparation, production, analysis, and evaluation. A successful graduate of doctoral studies must prove that he has not only required theoretical knowledge in the field, but also practical research skills in the field of pharmaceutical technology and is able to work independently. At the same time, he has to be able to present results of his own research to the professional community at conferences and scientific events and publish articles in scientific journals.

Prospects of graduates
The doctoral study focuses on deeper specialisation and strengthening of theoretical and scientific knowledge in the professional preparation of an expert in pharmaceutical technology. Graduates from the study program find employment at all universities where pharmaceutical technology, technology of pharmaceutical production, biotechnology, pharmaceutical chemistry, physics, biophysics, colloidal chemistry, nanoparticles and nanotechnologies in medicine and pharmacy, chemical and instrumental analysis of drugs and pharmaceutical excipients are taught, either as university teachers or scientific and research workers. Due to familiarising with a wide spectrum of knowledge and practical skills, the graduates find employment at workplaces of the healthcare system (State Institute for Drug Control, and so on.) and in research laboratories of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. A graduate may also find employment as researchers, developmental, and professional workers in the private sector's pharmaceutical industry, which are associated in Asociácia inovatívneho farmaceutického priemyslu or in Asociácia pre generické a biosimilárne lieky GENAS.

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