Dissertation abstracts and project descriptions

Abstract

During the last half a century pharmacy witnessed several evolvements which changed the dimensions of pharmacy practice. These included the movement towards a more patient-centred profession rather than product-oriented. We witnessed the contribution of drug intelligence to clinical pharmacy and later to pharmaceutical care and the evolvement of the sciences of biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics. Concepts dealing with bioavailability and bioequivalence, drug structure activity relationships, potency and efficacy, pharmacokinetic parameters, biological half-life, volume of distribution, drug clearance, protein binding, absorption and elimination constant were tackled by the Department in the early 1970s. The latest developments involve Regulatory Affairs. Today we are witnessing the full development of Regulatory Affairs into the latest acknowledged Regulatory Sciences, with the addition of the science of Pharmacovigilance. [Foreword by Professor Anthony Serracino-Inglott]