Chemical Engineering
Majors: Pharmaceutical Production Organization and Management; Pharmaceutical Development and Technology; Pharmaceutical Industrial Manufacturing and Quality Assurance; Chemical Engineering of Drug Substances; Process Development and Validation; Qualified Person
Accreditation. State accreditation. Professional-public accreditation and international accreditation (the National Center for Public Accreditation).
Achievements. The program has been recognized many times as one of the best educational programs of innovative Russia. Teaching staff. Training is provided by 14 departments and over 30 teachers. Eighty percent of the teaching staff hold academic degrees of Doctors and Candidates of Sciences. There are six Master’s programs.
Learning outcomes. Students learn how to carry out drug manufacturing processes, be responsible for the quality of released products, carry out process validation and equipment qualification, and design pharmaceutical enterprises.
Facilities and resources. The departments have state-of-the-art laboratory analytical and process equipment. When doing practical training, students use the GMP training center equipped with state-of-the-art devices.
Research is conducted in the field of pharmaceutical development of innovative dosage forms and application of additive technologies in the manufacture of modern medicinal products, synthesis, modification, and scaling of Russian pharmaceutical substances, design, and optimization of operating modes of process and pharmaceutical equipment, the pharmaceutical market research including an analysis of the behavior of prices for pharmaceutical products.
Competitive advantages. Students gain profound knowledge of chemical synthesis of active pharmaceutical substances, manufacture of finished dosage forms, GMP principles and drug manufacturing process management according to these principles, APS synthesis equipment.
Career prospects and employment. Graduates are sought after by scientific centers and enterprises manufacturing pharmaceutical substances and medicines; servicing and designing chemical and pharmaceutical facilities. Among the graduates are pharmaceutical industry leaders at different levels, staff of R&D centers, marketing authorization, quality assurance and quality control specialists at pharmaceutical enterprises, and authorized personnel.
