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Article # : SC27

Sema Çalış, Ph.D.

Professor

 

Approaches  to  Education  of  Pharmaceutical  Biotechnology  in  Faculties of pharmacy

 

Sema Çalış1, Filiz Öner2, Süheyla Kaş1 and A. Atilla Hıncal1

 

Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy 1Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, 2Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 06100 Ankara, Turkey

 

Summary

Pharmaceutical biotechnology is developing rapidly both in academic institutions and in the biopharmaceutical industry. For this reason, FIP Special Interest Group of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology decided to develop a questionnaire concerning pharmaceutical biotechnology education. After preliminary studies were completed, questionnaires were sent to the leading scientists in academia and research directors or senior managers of various Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Companies in order to gather their views about how to create a satisfactory program. The objectives of this
study were as follows:

-To review all of the graduate and undergraduate courses which are presently available worldwide on pharmaceutical biotechnology in Faculties of Pharmacy.

-To review all of the text books, references and scientific sources available worldwide in the area of pharmaceutical biotechnology .

When replying to the questionnaires, the respondents were asked to consider the present status of pharmaceutical biotechnology education in academia and future learning needs in collaboration with the biotechnology industry. The data from various pharmacy faculties and biotechnology industry representatives from Asia, Europe and America were evaluated and the outcome of the survey showed that educational efforts in training qualified staff in the rapidly growing field of pharmaceutical biotechnology is promising. Part of the results of this questionnaire study have already been presented at the 57th International Congress of FIP Vancouver, Canada in 1997.

 

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