Master degree program
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Engineering Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1.Demonstrates interdisciplinary systems thinking to achieve his own successful and stable professional development and skill in scientific, industrial and pedagogical activities.
2.Carries out the development, organization and implementation of the technological process for the production of medicinal substances in accordance with the regulatory requirements of the State Pharmacopoeia of the Republic of Kazakhstan, taking into account the relationship of their structure, chemical properties and biological activity.
3.Organizes the production of medicines in various dosage forms using innovative technologies, conducting a critical analysis of chemical, technological, biopharmaceutical and medical research of medicines and medical devices, in the development of their regulatory documentation, preparation of reports on the validation of production technology and establishing stability.
4.Conducts a comparative analysis of the most rational, economically and environmentally sound technologies for the production of herbal medicinal products (phytopreparations ), critically evaluating and justifying the choice of methodology and instrumental methods for their production in various dosage forms.
5.Demonstrates possession of modern physicochemical methods for the qualitative and quantitative determination of substances and excipients in medicinal products and at the stages of the technological process of their production, applying the theoretical laws of quality control to the identification of falsified, substandard and counterfeit medicinal products, developing unified methods for the analysis of functional groups of medicinal substances, carrying out a scientifically grounded choice of a set of methods for the analysis of biologically active substances of any class of compounds necessary for identification.
6.Critically evaluates the excipients of drugs, reasonably analyzing their chemical structure, technology of preparation and use in various types of dosage forms, taking into account their safety and synergistic interaction with substances.
7.Develops new medicinal substances, taking into account the mechanism of their action, carrying out the main stages of their production from research work, R&D to their state registration, skillfully using international standards of regulatory and production documentation in pharmaceutical production.
8.Carries out the organization of pharmaceutical production in accordance with the requirements of Good Pharmaceutical Practices (GMP, GPP, GDP, GVP), critically evaluating and justifying the achievement of compliance and maintaining an appropriate level of product quality in relation to products previously manufactured according to local or internal standards, forming a conceptual plan for the introduction of pharmaceuticals substances and drugs into production in compliance with international standards and offering methods of their production, control, registration and pharmacological supervision.
9.Applies methods of directed design of vital drugs, taking into account the dependence of the type and level of their physiological activity on the structure of drugs.
10.Demonstrates deep professional knowledge in the field of management and marketing in pharmacy, applying the basic management functions in the leadership of enterprises in the pharmaceutical industry; analyzing the pharmaceutical market at different levels and building a management strategy on its basis, modeling a system for promoting pharmaceutical products to the market, evaluating merchandising systems at trade enterprises of the pharmaceutical industry, designing drug merchandising systems in pharmacy enterprises.
11.Carries out the design of a logistics system in pharmaceuticals, modulating the logistics of procurement, distribution and sales, stocks and warehousing, production processes and transport, information, finance and service in the pharmaceutical industry, demonstrating the ability of scientific design of the tariff system in the logistics system of pharmaceutical entrepreneurship.
12.Organizes systems and enterprises for certification of pharmaceutical and medical products for the examination of the quality, safety and efficacy of drugs and medical devices in accordance with the requirements of Good Pharmaceutical Practices.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology
Speciality Code
7M07203
Faculty
Chemistry and Chemical Technology

disciplines

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to acquire and improve competencies by international standards of foreign language education and to communicate in an intercultural, professional, and scientific environment. A master's student must integrate new information, understand the organization of languages, interact in society, and defend his point of view.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Understanding of modern philosophy as a system of scientific knowledge, including worldview in rational-theoretical comprehension. The discipline includes aspects of the evolution and development of scientific thinking, historical moments, the contribution of scientists and scientific schools to the formation of science, and ethical and social aspects of scientific activity.

Innovative technologies for the production of herbal medicinal substances and their standardization
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: to form the ability to apply innovative technologies in production of herbal medicinal substances and their standardization. Discipline forms the basis for selection of innovative technologies in production of substances from medicinal plants and their standardization, is aimed at studying the influence of innovative technological parameters on the effectiveness of isolation of medicinal substances and implementation of their standardization.

Innovative technologies for the production of synthetic medicinal substances and the establishment of indicators of their quality
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: to form the ability to apply innovative technologies for synthesis of drugs and determination of their quality indicators. Discipline forms a theoretical, practical base on the principles of developing innovative medicinal substances and establishing their quality indicators, is aimed at developing optimal individual, combined and flexible pharmaceutical production of innovative medicinal substances and drawing up their regulatory documentation.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the research culture of the future specialist, and to study the theoretical and methodological principles of organizing research activities in the context of the development of science and society. The discipline is aimed at developing the ability to conduct independent scientific research using methods and techniques of analysis, and information scientific resources.

Organization of pharmaceutical production in accordance with the rules of Good Pharmaceutical Practices
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: to form the ability to implement the standards of GPP in pharmaceutical production. Discipline forms a theoretical and methodological basis for the organization of pharmaceutical production in conditions of GPP, is aimed at studying international standards of good practices for monitoring the process of product development, production and quality through the use of effective monitoring and control systems.

Pedagogy of Higher education
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity through the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis, and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course covers the educational activity design of specialists, Bologna process implementation, acquiring a lecturer, and curatorial skills by TLA-strategies.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Formation of knowledge about the fundamental concepts of management psychology for the practical application of the most critical aspects of management in professional interaction. Basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personality behavior, modern ideas, psychology of managing group phenomena, motivation, and practical reflection.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Chemistry and problems of creating anticancer drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: form the ability to characterize the dependence of type and level of antitumor action of applied organic compounds on their structure. Discipline forms the theoretical, methodological basis for the classification, determination of action mechanism of various groups of antitumor drugs and is aimed at studying the structure and chemical properties of organic compounds used in chemotherapy, and the problems of their creation.

Chemistry and technology for producing neuroleptic drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: form the ability to characterize the methods of obtaining neuroleptic drugs and dependence of type and level of their neuroleptic activity on the structure of drugs. Discipline forms the theoretical, methodological basis for synthesis of neuroleptic drugs, is aimed at studying the functions and mechanism of action of neurotransmitters in body, studying the chemical properties of psychotropic drugs, evolution of their creation and application.

Chromatographic analysis of drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose:to form the ability to conduct chromatographic analysis of drugs and interpretation of data obtained. Discipline forms the theoretical and practical basis of the methodology of research and identification of medicines by modern methods of chromatographic analysis and is aimed at studying thin-layer, high-performance liquid, gas, gas-liquid chromatography, ion exchange and gel chromatography.

Creation and analysis of prolonged dosage forms
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to apply the principles of creating polymer dosage forms of prolonged action, to explain the patterns of obtaining prolonged systems, to analyze the obtained dosage forms. The discipline forms the theoretical and methodological base of methods for creating prolonged dosage forms, the kinetics of the release of the active principle from the polymer base, methods for the analysis and control of prolonged dosage forms (solutions, gels, patches, films, etc.)

Design and production of polymer drug forms
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form the ability to develop the design and algorithm for obtaining polymer forms of medicines, to choose suitable polymer forms to meet the needs of modern medicine. Discipline forms the theoretical, methodological basis of methods for obtaining and features of the action of dosage forms based on polymers, is aimed at studying the history of drug design, the principles of creation, technologies used in this field.

Excipients production technology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form the ability to analyze excipients, their structure, physicochemical properties, production and use. Discipline forms a theoretical and methodological basis in the field of chemical technology of excipients and their physiological role, is aimed at studying the classification of excipients, chemistry and technology of their production, their impact on the safety and pharmacological effect of substances of medicines.

Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Logistics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form the ability to implement the requirements set on the management of material flow from source to consumer. Discipline forms the basis for modeling logistics systems, evaluating the economic efficiency of commercial logistics methods in pharmaceutical activities, is aimed at studying the logistics of material flows, technology of conducting the business procurement process, production logistics, their management at pharmaceutical enterprise.

Identification of fitodrugs and their biological activity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: to develop the ability to identify phytopreparations and determine their biological activity. Discipline forms a theoretical and methodological basis for identifying BAS of phytopreparations and establishing their biological activity, is aimed at studying methods of their functional analysis and interpretation of data from modern chromatographic and spectral methods of their analysis and biological activity.

Innovative technologies for the design of synthetic drug forms
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose:to form the ability to create, study and introduce innovative technologies in the production of synthetic dosage forms. The training course forms a theoretical and practical basis for the development and implementation of innovative dosage forms in production, aimed at studying methods and innovative pharmaceutical technologies, taking into account the latest achievements in related fields.

Modern physicochemical methods for the investigation of synthetic drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: to form the ability to identify synthetic drugs by modern physical and chemical methods to ensure the control of their quality indicators. Discipline forms the theoretical, methodological basis of various directions in chemical analysis and factors determining the choice of analysis method, is aimed at studying atomic emission and fluorescence, refractometric, polarimetric, spectral, chromatographic methods of analysis.

Modern technologies in the production of fitodrugs in various pharmaceutical forms
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose to form the ability to develop modern technologies for the production of phytopreparations in various dosage forms. The discipline forms the theoretical and methodological basis for choosing the most rational, economically and environmentally sound technologies for the production of phytopreparations in various dosage forms, ensuring their biological safety and high efficiency.

Pharmaceutical developments and registration dossiers of medicines and medical devices
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: form the ability to explain the methodological principles of pharmaceutical development of drugs and medical devices, drawing up registration dossiers for their state registration. Discipline forms the theoretical and methodological foundations for the preparation of pharmaceutical developments and registration dossiers, is aimed at studying the preparation of regulatory documentation in accordance with international standards.

Pharmaceutical management and marketing
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: form ability to use methods of organizing work in main links of commodity distribution system of pharmaceutical market. Discipline forms the professional level of communication competencies in field of pharmaceutical management, is aimed at studying the characteristics of market, socio-economic characteristics of sphere of drug supply to population, the concepts of social, ethical marketing, principles of formation of marketing information systems in field of drug supply.

Pharmaceutical merchandising
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: form the ability to organize a pharmaceutical business and manage the pharmaceutical market. Discipline forms basis for use of management, marketing and merchandising functions in pharmacy, is aimed at studying merchandising as a means of communication, the laws and rules of product placement, conducting trade operations in the field of drug circulation, psychological aspects of communication between pharmacist and buyer.

Polymeric drug delivery systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose: to develop the ability to develop and design drug delivery systems based on polymers. Discipline forms the theoretical and practical basis for creating systems for targeted delivery of medicinal substances and prolonging their effect, is aimed at studying the types, methods and technologies of obtaining, mechanisms of operation of polymer drug delivery systems.

Prospects for the creation of effective and safe drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose - to develop the ability to characterize modern approaches to the creation of effective and safe drugs. Discipline forms a theoretical and methodological basis for development of new dosage forms of medicines, is aimed at studying the methods of targeted design of safe and effective medicines, their molecular modeling, virtual screening and design.

Spectral methods for the analysis of drugs
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose:to generate the ability to identify drugs spectral analysis methods. Discipline forms the theoretical and methodological basis for the use of spectral methods for the analysis of medicines and is aimed at studying the methods of spectral analysis that allow identifying the fine structure of active, excipients and drugs obtained on their basis.

Standardization and certification of medicines
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form theoretical knowledge and professional competence in field of concept of quality assurance of medicines. Discipline forms the theoretical, methodological basis for the standardization and certification of medicines,is aimed at studying the mechanisms and tools of state regulation of the quality of medicines, the rules of their certification and standardization in accordance with the requirements of GMP.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of the ability to carry out educational activities in universities, to design the educational process and conduct certain types of training sessions using innovative educational technologies.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years