Industrial pharmacy REPLICA LATINA

General expected learning outcomes The teaching of Drug Targeting and Delivery provides to the students the main methods to optimize the drug efficiency, starting from the physical-chemical characteristics of the active molecule and the request administration ways. The teaching will present all the most important drug delivery systems, suitable to obtain the therapeutic effect of a specific dug, minimizing its toxicity and increasing the targeting. The teaching tries to increase the interest of the student towards a multidisciplinary research work, employing the knowledge acquired in the previous years of the degree course. Specific expected learning outcomes 1. Knowledge and understanding The student will able to know and understand physical-chemical characteristics of the drugs and the problems related to their delivery such as bioavailability and stability. The student will be able to plain smart drug delivery systems able to target the drug, to the aim of minimizing toxicity and increase the activity. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding The student will be able to value the problems of a drug and to plane innovative pharmaceutical formulations that allow of overcoming these problems. The student will be able to to examine critically the different drug delivery systems in order to choose the most suitable for the specific drug and administration route. 3. Making judgements The lessons will be interactive, with a continue comparison between teacher and students about the arguments, with the aim to stimulate the interest of the students and to increase their critical sense. This discussion will allow calling back arguments already discussed in other teachings, and connected among them. 4. Communication skills The rating of the student will be made through an oral examination that will have as subject one of the arguments treated during the lessons. The student will search in the literature a recent research paper on the argument, and will present critically the results with a Power Point presentation. 5. Learning skills The student will be able to search in the literature and to study critically the scientific papers related to the arguments of the teaching. In this way, he will be able to plan innovative formulations in order to increase the efficacy of old drugs by new technological methodologies, as requested by the industrial world.