What kind of research is performed in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences?
The Pharmaceutical Sciences traditionally has encompassed a wide range of disciplines each focused towards aspects of discovery and development of new or already existing drug entities. These include medicinal chemistry (discovery of new drug candidates), pharmacology and toxicology (biological evaluation of drug entities), pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism (study of the fate of drug entities in the body), pharmaceutics (improvement of drug delivery in the body). For each of these areas, both traditional small molecule and biotechnology-derived drug entities are included. The Pharmaceutical Sciences incorporates techniques from a wide array of scientific disciplines, and is multidisciplinary in its scope.
