History of Manufacture of Medicines

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

  • Pál Szilárd

    assistant professor,
    Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 28 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 28 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OTF-GKT-T
  • 2 kredit
  • Biotechnology BSc
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 1 – max. 100

Topic

Aim of the course is to explain the importance of the birth of Pharmaceutical Technology, introducing the manufacture of medicines from the ancient times until the new age. Lectures will explain how first medicines were made, how the first pharmaceutical technological equipments were created and how the mass production of drugs became more and more important. Lectures will also elaborate the birth of famous medicines, like the quinine, aspirin, insulin and the sildenafil.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction - Pál Szilárd
  • 2. introduction - Pál Szilárd
  • 3. Ancient technologies (Egypt, Greece, Persian Empire) - Pál Szilárd
  • 4. Ancient technologies (Egypt, Greece, Persian Empire) - Pál Szilárd
  • 5. Influence of alchemy to the pharmaceutical technology - Pál Szilárd
  • 6. Influence of alchemy to the pharmaceutical technology - Pál Szilárd
  • 7. Middle ages - Pál Szilárd
  • 8. Middle ages - Pál Szilárd
  • 9. Effect of industrial revolution - Pál Szilárd
  • 10. Effect of industrial revolution - Pál Szilárd
  • 11. Development of medicines in the new age - Pál Szilárd
  • 12. Development of medicines in the new age - Pál Szilárd
  • 13. Birth of the first industrial manufacturers - Pál Szilárd
  • 14. Birth of the first industrial manufacturers - Pál Szilárd
  • 15. Evolution of community pharmacies - Pál Szilárd
  • 16. Evolution of community pharmacies - Pál Szilárd
  • 17. Drugs that changed the world - Pál Szilárd
  • 18. Drugs that changed the world - Pál Szilárd
  • 19. Invention of the quinine - Pál Szilárd
  • 20. Invention of the aspirine - Pál Szilárd
  • 21. Invention of various famous drugs - Pál Szilárd
  • 22. Invention of the sildenafil - Pál Szilárd
  • 23. Invention of the insulin - Pál Szilárd
  • 24. Invention of the insulin - Pál Szilárd
  • 25. Test - Pál Szilárd
  • 26. Test - Pál Szilárd
  • 27. Attending the Saracen Pharmacy in Pécs - Pál Szilárd
  • 28. Attending the Saracen Pharmacy in Pécs - Pál Szilárd

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Leon Shargel, A. B.C. Yu, Stamford: Applied Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics

Susanna Wu-Pong, Yon Rojanasakul: Biopharmaceutical Drug Design and Development, Humana Press

Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes: Modern Pharmaceutics, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York- Basel

Michael J. Rathbone, Michael S. Roberts: Modified-Release Drug Delivery Technology, Informa Healthcare

Michael E. Aulton: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines, Churchill Livingstone

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

-

Mid-term exams

- participation on the lectures

- accepted work reports

- accepted written assessments

Students have to write an end-semester assessment from the lectures at acceptance level of 60%.

Making up for missed classes

Students must fulfil requirements determined by the Code of Studies and Examinations. Student has make up for the missed lectures and work reports.

Exam topics/questions

Students can get the test topics in the institute or download the from website of the institute.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Kása Péter
  • Pál Szilárd