Pharmaceutics

Alekha Dash is a Professor and Gilbert F. Taffe, Jr. Endowed Chair at the Department of Pharmacy Sciences, and Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. His research interests include Design and Evaluation of Novel Drug Delivery Systems, Preformulation Studies, Solid-State Characterization of Drugs and Dosage Forms, Pharmaceutical Analysis Utilizing the Following Techniques: HPLC, GC, GC-MS, Thermoanalytical methods, IR, Powder X-ray Diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Evaluation and Design of Dosage Forms for Nutraceuticals. Somnath Singh is Professor and Director in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. His research interests include skin irritation, nematotoxicity, percutaneous absorption, protein formulation and stability, controlled release drug delivery systems and smart polymers.

Part 1: Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics 1. Introduction: Terminology, basic mathematical skills and calculations 2. Physical states, thermodynamic principles in pharmaceutics 3. Physical properties, their determination and importance in pharmaceutics 4. Equilibrium processes in Pharmaceutics 5. Kinetic processes and Pharmaceutics 6. Complexation and Protein Binding

Part 2: Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics 7. Other processes 8. Drug, Dosage forms and Drug delivery systems 9. Solid Dosage forms 10. Liquid Dosage form 11. Gaseous dosage forms 12. Semi-solid dosage forms 13. Special dosage forms 14. Emerging therapeutics and their delivery challenges

Part 3: Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics 15. Routes of drug administration 16. Membrane transport and Diffusion 17. Factors affecting drug absorption and disposition in a system 18. Bioavailability and Bioequivalence