KE2090 Pharmaceutical Technology 7.5 credits

The course includes:

• chemical properties of drugs of importance to drug formulation, and how these are characterized
• principles of drug formulation and the release of drugs from pharmaceutical dosage forms
• excipients and their properties
• important pharmaceutical unit operations
• manufacturing and packaging of pharmaceutical dosage forms
• quality assurance and quality evaluation

During the course the students will acquire basic knowledge of preformulation and formulation of drugs, pharmaceutical unit operations and manufacturing, packaging and quality control of pharmaceutical dosage forms.

Aulton M.E., Pharmaceutics - The Science of Dosage Form Design, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh 2002.

Alderborn, G., Björk, E., Castensson, S., Johansson, M.E., och Waltersson, J.O., Utformning av läkemedel, Apoteket AB, Stockholm, 2000

Ek Ragnar, Fasta läkemedelsformer - formulering, tillverkning och karakterisering, Läkemedelsakademien

• TEN1 - Examination, 4.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• LAB1 - Laboratory Work, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Examination, 4,5 credits.
Laboratory work, 3 credits.

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.