ProgramCIP 51.2003

Pharmaceutics and Drug Design

A program that focuses on the scientific study of the formulation of medicinal substances into product vehicles capable of being stored, transported, and then introduced into the patient and behaving in ways optimal to therapeutic interaction. Includes instruction in statistics, biopharmaceutics, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, physical pharmacy, pharmacological analysis, drug design and development, pharmacological biotechnology, chemical separations, spectroscopy, drug-host interactions, immunology, quantitative drug measurement, enzymatic transformations, and metabolic excretion.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Pharmaceutics and Drug Design (MS), Pharmaceutics and Drug Design (PhD).