Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: One year full-time
The Pharmaceutical Quality by Design (QbD) course provides an understanding of the challenges faced by the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries as they strive to develop new products. It will equip you with modern product development and manufacturing solutions that conform to current industry best practices and modern QbD principles.
Our Leicester School of Pharmacy has an established reputation of more than 100 years of pharmacy teaching. This course is dedicated to applying international regulatory guidelines used by all big pharmaceutical industries to pharmaceutical manufacture and product development.
Our teaching staff are experienced practitioners and researchers, and offer academic and industrial expertise underpinned by Quality by Design principles. You will learn about the challenges faced by the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries in product formulation, material science, advanced analytical sciences, and process engineering and control, as they strive to develop new products and create safe medicines.
A good honours degree (minimum 2:2 or equivalent) in a chemical,
biological or physical science, including (though not exclusive to)
chemistry, biology, chemical engineering, engineering, pharmacy,
pharmaceutical science, or physics (or equivalent)
Alternatively, we will accept a portfolio of professional and/or academic
qualifications of equivalent standing to an honours degree.
UK/EU:Full-time £5740. International: Full-time £12,500. Distance Learning 15 Credit module £980, 30 Credit module £1390, 60 Credit dissertation £2000
This course equips graduates with the relevant knowledge and skills to compete for jobs in pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors linked to industry or academia all over the world. There are career opportunities in areas such as product development, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, marketing and clinical research, and jobs include:
Product Lifecycle Manager
Oral Solid Dose (OSD) Technologist
OSD Industrialisation Lead
Production Technologist
Senior analyst
Regulatory affairs associate performance manager
Senior device technologist
Product development scientist
Block one: Quality by Design: Fundamental principles (30 credits)
Block two: Prod Design: Formulation Development (30 credits)
Block three: Process Design: Manufacturing & Process Analytical (30 credits)
Block four: Biopharmaceuticals (30 credits)
Block five and six: Dissertation (60 credits)
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